Book Club: Cozy Plantita Life

So you want to live the plantita life but don’t know where to start. You’re deadset on leaving hustle culture behind, planting a garden, getting chickens and living off the land. Or you just want to find a plant-based hobby that makes you feel good, improves your mood, feel cozy, and gives you something to look forward to after work and on weekends. The best place to start is by grabbing books that will give you beginners the basics and you intermediate folks the way to take your plants or homestead to the next level.

We have gathered together the top 5 books if you want to live your best plantita life. You can also check out some of these titles on our Tiktok.

Gaya’s Garden: A Guide to Home Scale Permaculture

Called a “milestone for personal gardenered” this book has been recommended to me so many times I’ve lost count. Reading this book, you’ll learn how to work with nature, not against, which will create beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. Topics include building your soil (especially if you have bad soil), conserving water for your garden, creating a diverse habitat for animals (yes, even predators!).

The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens

This book is the ultimate guide to starting your own chicken adventure. Author Kathy Shea Mormino is considered the digital chicken guru. The book is a fun, informative, easy look at raising backyard chickens

Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide

You’ll have so many herbs that you won’t know what to do with them, so you’ll need this book, written by Rosemary Gladstar, that’s considered the bible of herbalism. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll be able to make soothing aloe lotion, make a dandelion-burdock tincture to fix sluggish digestion, and brew up some lavender-lemon balm tea to ease a stressful day Gladstar is the founder of Traditional Medicinals so so she has a warm place in our heart. In fact, the brand’s Throat Coat, Mother’s Milk and Smooth Move is based on recipes she created.

The Green Witch: your complete guide to the natural magic of herbs, flowers, essential oils and more

This book will teach you the way of the green witch: recipes for herbal blends, the basics of essential oils, and simple herbal ways to relax and recharge. What is a green witch? She’s an earth mama, an herbalist, a botanist, and herbalist and healer all rolled into one. She gets her energy from the Earth and uses it for healing and creating moments of tranquility. Sounds just like the women from our ancestral line.