By David Winston and Steven Maimes This book provides a comprehensive look into adaptogens, a group of nontoxic herbs that help our bodies adapt to stressful situations while staying balanced and healthy. These rejuvenating herbs increase stamina and counter the normal effects of aging, and thus are becoming important in the prevention and treatment of chronic fatigue and other stress-related disorders. Paperback, 325 pp.

This free booklet is an excellent reference for product and dosage information, includes images of the garden and life at Avena.

How To Move Like A Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines From Plants Available June 20, 2013: 256 informative pages with over 200 beautiful color photographs taken in Avena's garden. This book embodies Deb's deep love and respect for the spirit of the medicinal plants she has worked with for almost 40 years. $33 plus shipping. Pre-order now and be one of the first to receive a signed copy! Endorsements: “If you would have a lovely garden you should lead a lovely life,” is a Shaker quote long hidden in some deep cerebral crevice that leaped from my right brain as I turned each beautiful page of Deb Soule’s How to Move Like a Gardener. This garden of words, photos, thoughts, and feelings feeds my eyes, my mind, my spirit. Here plants and people are not separate kingdoms, classes, and species. Here we find the practical instructions on how to lead a lovely life in a lovely garden. –Steven Foster, author, photographer, consultant for medicinal and aromatic plants Like one of Deb's hummingbirds, hovering before the inviting maw of a nasturtium, the reader will find this book endowed with glorious offerings of rich nectar. It makes me want to go out and turn the compost pile, one steaming forkful at a time, while slowly chewing a dandelion leaf that protrudes from the corner of my mouth. Once again we find that by working within nature's phantasmagoria of diverse life forms, us humans, unleashed from the tethers of telephones, traffic, and time, find ourselves a part of great nature, and in so doing, find freedom. –Richo Cech, Horizon Herbs Herbalist Deb Soule offers the reader a beautifully written, heart-centered gardening book that reads as much like a prayer as it does a practical guide for all gardeners, new and experienced; sure to awaken and inspire one to explore creative ways of tending the rich life held in a well loved garden. Weaving stories with sound advice, the author shares wisdom gleaned through years of cultivating not only soil and plants, but also her research and work with the pollinators, biodynamic practices and favorite tools used in growing simple herbal remedies to nourish the gardener as they heal the Earth. Honoring traditions, ances tors and the sacredness of carrying on the work of the wise herbalists that came before us, Deb reminds us of the blessing of being called to this work! -Kate Gilday, Herbalist, Woodland Essence This book is astounding! It is everything you want in a book about gardening; good solid practical advice, a spiritual connection to the earth, and visually beautiful. Deb has taken her twenty-five-plus years as a professional medicinal plant gardener, her life-time love of the Earth and the plant people, and come up with something very special. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in gardening or the plant people. Run, walk, drive to the nearest book store and get a copy. I promise you this book will be well read, well worn, and well loved. -Karyn Sanders, Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine Way beyond food, flowers, or medicine, gardening as the mindful rhythm in harmony with all living souls. -C.R. Lawn, FEDCO Seeds Deb Soule is overflowing with the healing wisdom of the plant world distilled through many years of study, experience and observation. Her reverence and respect for nature and deep intuitive capacities are evident in every page of this book. What a gift! -Robert Karp, Director of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association

A documentary film portrait of Juliette de Bairacli Levy, world renowned herbalist, author, pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine, traveler and anthologist of Gypsy lore. For more than 60 years Juliette lived with the Gypsies, Bedouins and peasant peoples of the world. This film records Juliette's extraordinary life and her vast wealth of herbal and nature knowledge and presents a truly inspiring portrait of an elder woman healer. 90-minute film on DVD. Filmed by our friend Tish Streeten, an accomplished filmmaker, this film is an uplifting story to share with your neighbors and community. Includes footage from Avena's Garden.

By Richo Cech. An excellent book for anyone interested in making their own herbal medicine. The book includes instructions on tincture making, the mathematics of extraction, vinegar extracts, glycerites, syrups, teas, decoctions, oils, salves, creams, poultices, soaks and baths. Richo also includes a comprehensive list of over 100 herbs with specific information on different ways to prepare and use each herb. Richo has been growing, harvesting and using medicinal herbs for over 20 years. We highly recommend his family´s organic medicinal herb seed business, Horizon Herbs, located in Williams, Oregon. Paperback, 283 pp.

By Greg Marley. Finally a medicinal mushroom book written for the Eastern US! It is an easy to use guide to the best health-promoting mushrooms found growing wild around us. It combines the features of a field guide, along with research supporting the medicinal uses of mushrooms and an explanation of the workings of the immune system. Paperback, 112 pp Greg Marley, an excellent mycologist and teacher, lives near Avena Botanicals and collects Indian Pipe for our Willow Relief Formula

A documentary film about the healing power of plants. Filmmakers Terrence Youk and Ann Armbrecht traveled the U.S. to speak with doctors and herbalists, ethnobotanists and others about how our disconnection from nature affects human and environmental health, and to discover how healing is made possible by embracing our place in the wider web of life. 95-minute DVD Includes lovely footage of Avena's Garden and an interview with Deb Soule, founder of Avena Botanicals.

Stella Natura 2013 Biodynamic Planting Calendar, Planting Charts and Thought-Provoking Essays, Edited by Sherry Wildfeuer. This Calendar has many aspects: a basic introduction to astronomy, a simple ephemeris, a planting guide, a star map, aid for following the movement of the planets in the night sky, and articles by ten different authors. All of these attempt to provide a true picture of the world outside us and ideas to assist in developing a healthy relation to that world. The charts can assist you in choosing optimum times to sow seeds, transplant, cultivate your crops and harvest them for storage. 9" x 12" wall calendar, beautifully illustrated, 40 pages, 4-color cover.

By Richo Cech. Continues the story begun with Making Plant Medicine. This book will do much to assist gardeners in creating balanced medicinal gardens. It also endeavors to give people the tools and techniques that are most helpful in bringing these desired herbs closer to home. Paperback, 176 pp Richo Cech is the founder of the wonderful seed company Horizon Herbs which provides some of the seeds we plant in Avena's Garden.

Written by the founder of Avena Botanicals, Deb Soule, this classical women's herbal is finally back in print! A practical and inspirational guide that teaches the reader how to prepare and use herbs for a variety of women's health concerns including menstruation, menopause, vaginal and breast health, lesbian health, pregnancy and growing older.