By ERIC FREEDMAN
Capital News Service
Small House Farm
“The Artisan Herbalist” by Bevin Cohen is available for $24.99 online and in bookstores.LANSING — If you’re searching for a recent Michigan book as a holiday gift, here are two prospects that Capital News Service wrote about in 2021, including interviews with their authors.
The Artisan Herbalist by Bevin Cohen
This book by a Sanford writer is a comprehensive guide to at-home herbalism for beginners through experienced herbalists.
What the author says: “Just choose a plant and learn about it. Start small. Even when we look at our spice racks, we have so many herbs available to us right inside of our houses already.”
Available from Small House Farm ($24.99).
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Michigan State University Press
The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870 by Theresa L. Weller
This is a history of a highly unusual band of predominantly Native American women who lived on Mackinac Island and got together because the U.S. government owed them annuity payments for land given up in an 1836 treaty.
What the author says: “Who were these women? Where did they come from? What was their lives like?”
Available from Michigan State University Press ($32.95).