Teaching experience: 24 years
Primary region: Finland, Sweden and temperate zones world-wide
Website
Website: Henriette’s Herbal
Website pages include blog (entries since 2004), articles written by Henriette Kress, photo library of plants (exceeding 10,000 images), and an extensive list of links to herbalists, herbal organizations and many other botanical (and non-botanical) references.
Book
Practical Herbs
Written by Henriette Kress
Copyright 2011
Published by Yrtit ja yrttierapia Henriette Kress
Table of Contents includes:
- The Basics
- Picking herbs
- Drying your herbs
- Making and using herbal teas
- Herbal oil
- Herbal salves
- Tinctures
- Herbal vinegar
- Herbal syrups
- The Plants
- Angelica
- Beggarticks
- Black currant
- Calendula
- California poppy
- Chickweed
- The cinquefoils
- Cleavers
- Dandelion
- Field horsetail
- Hyssop
- Maral root
- Meadowsweet
- Red raspberry
- Rose
- Speedwell
- Stinging nettle
- St. John’s wort
- Vervain
- Willowherb
- Yarrow
- Yellow dock
Review: This exceedingly practical and easy-to-read book presents each plant’s description, habitat, picking and processing info, and the effects and uses of the plant. When appropriate, Kress highlights “look-alike” plants. Practical Herbs is loaded with tips, recipes and photos taken by Kress.
Available from: Henriette’s Herbal website as a softbound book or downloadable e-book.