Product Description

A guide to the outdoor world and nature-based spirituality for real witches everywhere. Kate West explains how to set up your own sacred space in the garden and how to grow herbs for use in spells and remedies. The Real Witches' Garden is a practical guide to witchcraft in the garden -- whether you have 20 acres or a window box!Contents:; Nature based spirituality -- Witchcraft by another name.; How the garden fits into your life and your Craft.; The garden as a sacred space for working ritual.; The elemental garden -- earth, air, fire, water and spirit.; The garden as a medicine store -- herbs and herbal remedies.; The smallest of gardens -- window boxes, pots and containers.; Plant associations -- a list of plants relating to various aspects of the Craft.; Planting and tending by the natural cycles -- the lunar calendar and the wheel of the year.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6161 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
A guide to the outdoor world and nature-based spirituality for real witches everywhere. Kate West explains how to set up your own sacred space in the garden and how to grow herbs for use in spells and remedies. The Real Witches' Garden is a practical guide to witchcraft in the garden -- whether you have 20 acres or a window box!Contents:; Nature based spirituality -- Witchcraft by another name.; How the garden fits into your life and your Craft.; The garden as a sacred space for working ritual.; The elemental garden -- earth, air, fire, water and spirit.; The garden as a medicine store -- herbs and herbal remedies.; The smallest of gardens -- window boxes, pots and containers.; Plant associations -- a list of plants relating to various aspects of the Craft.; Planting and tending by the natural cycles -- the lunar calendar and the wheel of the year.

About the Author
Kate West is the author of The Real Witches' Handbook and The Real Witches' Kitchen. She is Media Officer for The Children of Artemis and High Priestess of the Hearth of Hecate, which runs a popular email support and enquiry service for Witches around the world. A practising Wiccan for over 25 years, she has excellent international contacts.

Customer Reviews

A real witches review.
I always find Kate West a brilliant read, and the Real Witches Garden is Kate at her best. I am a healer and Wise Woman and teach courses on wicca all around the UK. I regularly recommend Kate West's books to my students. They are sensible, no-nonsense, down to earth books that demystify the craft and make it accessible to anyone in a way that I try to get over in my courses. Therefore they are great course back up books.
WELL DONE KATE, YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN!

Grow your own magic !
Reading this book made me realise the importance of having your own witches garden, be it large or small. It's very easy to buy what you need online but things that you have grown yourself will always be a hundred times more magical. Really gets you taking a closer look at the environment & how you can gain spiritually from it aswell as helping to preserve it.

Witchy Gardening!
Kate West's guide to Gardening the Witches way.

This is a wonderful book, so much information, including how to grow herbs to use for spells, planning your garden in fact everything magickally related for your garden! And if you have 20 acres or 20cm it doesn't matter anyone can really get something out of this book.

This is not a comprehensive guide to herbs etc, it might be good to use another herbs book in conjunction with this too. This is also brilliant to use with The Real Witches Kitchen I own both and they both work extremely well together.

Kate has also included information about Witchcraft so this would be a brilliant book for someone new to Witchcraft as well, though I would recommend getting a couple of Kate's other books if you are new too. And she has written some really good suggestions for Sabbats too.

All in all a brilliant book, and brilliant information as always.