Spice up your favourite barbeque dishes. Chase away illness with delicious soup. There are hundreds of ways to benefit from nature's most versatile plants inside "Llewellyn's 2012 Herbal Almanac". Featuring thirty articles, this treasury of innovative herbal ideas spans five categories: gardening, cooking, crafts, health/beauty, and myth/lore. In this edition, you'll discover how to keep bees and make herbal honey, put together an autumn luck bag, whip up Presto Pesto Pasta and other quick meals, open your energy, create stunning crafts with sunflowers, control pests in your garden, and much more. From the carnivorous bog violet to innovative urban gardening to nasturtium's role in myth and literature, this practical almanac is your gateway to the herbal kingdom (2011 edition: 9780738711317).