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What if some of the most useful plants for your daily wellbeing are already growing around you?
In Wild About Juices, Margo invites you to rediscover the wild and garden plants that have shared our landscapes for generations. Rather than treating herbs as mysterious ingredients found only in specialist shops, this book brings them into everyday life — from a handful of fresh leaves in a morning juice to traditional teas, tinctures, salves, and soothing baths.
Drawing on her background in medicine, years of herbal exploration, gardening, raw food, and more than two decades of personal experience with green juices, Margo introduces 53 wild and cultivated plants. You'll meet familiar plants such as nettle, dandelion, plantain, purslane, calendula, cleavers, and pine needles, along with lesser-known herbs and traditional remedies.
For 29 plants that Margo personally uses for juicing, you'll discover practical information alongside personal stories, nutritional details, traditional herbal uses, and references to published research. A further 24 herbs are explored for their broader traditional applications, with clear discussion of plants that require particular caution.
This practical guide also covers safe plant identification, responsible foraging, harvesting seasons, preparation methods, precautions, and contraindications, helping you approach wild plants with curiosity while respecting their potential risks.
Whether you're completely new to foraging or already growing herbs in your garden, Wild About Juices offers a grounded introduction to wild plant medicine, herbal remedies, green juice, natural living, and sustainable foraging.
This is not a promise of cures or a replacement for professional medical care. It is an invitation to become more observant of the natural world, learn what grows around you, and explore traditional plant knowledge with care and common sense.
Inside, you'll learn how to identify useful plants, harvest them responsibly, incorporate them into simple daily preparations, and create your own connection with the living landscape.
Your next green ingredient might not be on a supermarket shelf. It might be growing just beyond your doorstep.
More About This Book
When and Why Should Someone Read It?
Read this book when you feel the need to slow down, reconnect with nature, and remember that healing traditions don't always begin in a shop or a bottle.
Wild About Juices is for the person who walks past a dandelion, nettle, plantain, or clover and wonders, Could this actually be useful? It is for anyone who wants to understand the plants growing around them instead of simply pulling them out of the garden or walking past them without noticing.
You might reach for this book when you're beginning your journey into wild foraging, starting a daily green juice ritual, becoming more interested in herbal remedies, or simply looking for a more natural and meaningful way to care for yourself and your family.
It is also a book for those moments when modern life feels too disconnected from the simple things that once came naturally to us — growing food, gathering plants, making something with our own hands, and knowing what lives around our homes.
Inside these pages, I share the plants I have personally come to know and use, together with traditional knowledge, practical preparation ideas, research, and the cautions that should never be overlooked.
By the end, I hope you will look at the landscape around you differently. The weeds beside a path may no longer seem like weeds. A handful of green leaves may become the beginning of a morning ritual. And the garden, field, or patch of wild ground near your home may feel a little more familiar.
This book is not about rushing into wild medicine or believing that plants can cure everything. It is about curiosity, knowledge, respect, and learning to notice what has been growing quietly around us all along.
Themes, Ideas & Atmosphere
1. Reconnecting with the plants around us
A central theme is learning to notice the wild plants that are often overlooked — nettle, dandelion, plantain, purslane, cleavers, calendula, pine needles, and many others. The book encourages readers to become curious about what is growing in their own gardens, paths, fields, and neighbourhoods.
2. Wild plants as part of everyday life
This is not about complicated herbal routines. The approach is practical and simple: taking plants from the garden or wild, preparing them as fresh juice, tea, tincture, salves, or baths, and gradually making them part of an everyday relationship with nature.
3. Traditional herbal knowledge with modern research
The book brings together old herbal traditions, folk knowledge, personal experience, nutritional information, and published research. It respects traditional uses while also being honest about what is known, what is uncertain, and where a plant requires particular caution.
4. Safe, respectful, and sustainable foraging
Curiosity needs to go hand in hand with responsibility. Plant identification, the right time to harvest, where plants grow, sustainable gathering, precautions, and contraindications are an important part of the book. The goal is not simply to collect plants, but to learn how to approach them safely and respectfully.
The overall tone is personal, practical, and grounded in a lifelong connection with nature. Rather than presenting herbalism as something complicated or mysterious, the book encourages readers to slow down, observe what is growing around them, and learn through simple daily practice. It combines personal stories with practical plant information, traditional wisdom, and a cautious approach to natural healing.
If You Loved These, You'll Love This
If you liked Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, you may connect with Wild About Juices for its emphasis on paying attention to the natural world and developing a deeper relationship with plants. The difference is that this book takes that connection into everyday practice, with specific wild and garden plants, preparation methods, foraging guidance, and personal experience.
If you liked Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs by Rosemary Gladstar, you'll find a similar interest in traditional herbal knowledge and practical ways of working with plants. Wild About Juices adds a particular focus on fresh green juices and the plants that can be gathered from gardens and the wild, while also bringing together personal stories, nutritional information, published research, and safety considerations.
If you enjoy the practical spirit of The Forager's Handbook by Miles Irving, you'll recognize the emphasis on discovering edible and useful plants in the landscape around you. Wild About Juices takes a somewhat different path by looking beyond simply identifying wild foods and exploring how plants can become part of everyday herbal preparations such as juices, teas, tinctures, salves, and baths.
Together, these comparisons reflect the heart of Wild About Juices: a meeting point between wild foraging, traditional herbal wisdom, practical plant knowledge, fresh green juicing, and a personal connection with nature.
The Story Behind the Book
This book grew out of more than twenty years of making green juice and learning from the plants around me.
I grew up in a farming family, surrounded by gardens, orchards, and fields. Plants were never something distant or unfamiliar to me. They were simply part of everyday life. As I grew older and studied General Medicine, I became interested in health from a different perspective, and eventually my own path led me away from practicing conventional medicine and deeper into herbalism, raw food, gardening, and natural living.
For more than two decades, making green juice has been part of my morning routine. Over the years, I began looking beyond the usual supermarket greens and paying attention to what was growing right outside my door. Nettle, dandelion, plantain, purslane, cleavers, calendula, pine needles, and many other plants became familiar companions.
But I also learned that working with wild plants requires humility. Knowing a plant's name is not enough. You need to know where it grows, when to harvest it, how to prepare it, when not to use it, and which plants require particular caution.
I wanted to bring all of this together in one place — not as a clinical textbook and not as a promise that plants can cure everything, but as the kind of practical companion I would have wanted when I was learning.
The idea behind Wild About Juices was simple: what if we stopped overlooking the plants growing around us and started getting to know them?
This book is the result of that question, years of personal practice, my medical education, my connection to traditional plant knowledge, and a lifelong habit of looking more closely at what nature has already placed within our reach.
The Central Question
At the heart of Wild About Juices is a simple question:
What if we have become so disconnected from nature that we no longer recognize the useful plants growing right in front of us?
The book explores the gap between modern life and the older, more hands-on relationship humans once had with plants. We buy supplements, powders, teas, and wellness products without always knowing where they come from, while familiar plants such as nettle, dandelion, plantain, purslane, and cleavers may be growing just outside our doors.
But there is another side to this question. Wild plants should not be approached with blind enthusiasm. The challenge is learning to become curious without becoming careless — to know how to identify a plant correctly, when and where to harvest it, how to prepare it, and when a plant is better left alone.
The transformation I hope readers experience is not simply learning a list of 53 plants. It is learning to see differently.
A patch of green on a walk can become something worth stopping for. A garden weed can become a plant worth understanding. A handful of leaves can become part of a simple morning juice or another traditional preparation. And the act of gathering plants can become a way of slowing down and paying attention.
By the final page, I want readers to feel more confident about recognizing the plants around them, more respectful of their power and limitations, and more connected to the natural world.
Most of all, I hope they carry one question with them whenever they walk outside:
What is growing here — and what might I learn if I take the time to know it?
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