Homegrown Tea: An Illustrated Guide to Planting, Harvesting, and Blending Teas and Herbal Teas

Homegrown Tea explains how growing a wide variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony, or even on a windowsill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge explains when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry the tea leaves to make tea that you can store to last throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to showing how to prepare fresh and dried tea bags and how to serve delicious homemade tea. It's a sustainable approach to a drink, steeped in history and tradition.

The drink samples include well-known botanicals such as rosehip, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.