Medicinal Plants of Big Sur
A field companion to the wild medicine of this coast
 
A hand-compiled guide to the plants that grow along the Big Sur coastline. Twenty-four pages, full color, small enough to tuck into a pack for the trail or keep on your kitchen shelf.
 
This land has been home to the Esselen people for thousands of years, and it's their traditional knowledge — carried forward through the plants themselves — that this guide draws from and honors. Inside, you'll find the native plants of this coast gathered together with their traditional uses and medicinal properties: yarrow, mugwort, wild rose, coastal sage, and more, each one a thread connecting this land to the people who have always known it.
 
This is medicine as memory. A way of knowing the mountains and the shoreline not just by sight, but by what they offer the body, and by whose knowledge made that offering legible in the first place. Whether you're a forager, an herbalist, or simply curious about the wild plants growing beyond your doorstep, this guide is an invitation to look closer — and to remember whose land this is, and always has been.
 
Softcover, 24 pages, full color. Printed in small batches, just like everything else we make.