The Green Witch's Garden

Maiden, Mother, Crone quite aglow, how does your garden grow?

This is a basic gardening book with a focus on the Green Witch. Most of us already have a green thumb, and some may have their garden designed to support their practice, but not everyone does. If you’re just starting out or wondering how to align your garden closer to your practice, give them book a read!

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I have several of this author's books, all variations of the theme around witchcraft. Very pretty, nicely written. Good basic gardening information with a little witchy flair thrown in.

I love to garden and I know a lot about gardening especially growing fruit and vegetables, herbs and flowers but I am learning about the craft. This book can help you see gardening in a more spiritual light, do things differently and appreciate all there is.

A book to refer back to time and again.

So I absolutely adore Arin Murphy-Hiscock and her other works. I am so excited that she has this next installment in her series! I have already preordered mine! I love the garden aspect to bring together your pagan home.

Wow! This is definitely a book that I plan to buy the physical copy of, as it’ll be a handy resource for when I move into my next home!

Great tips for planting a garden, the importance of it, the properties of each herb and plant, keeping a garden journal, rituals and more!

I think this is a great book for a beginner and an intermediate practitioner of witchcraft, or even someone who is just interested in plants in general!

What a fantastic reference book! I love to garden but this changed the way I looked at it and felt while doing it. This is a physical copy I must have once available

I will definitely be purchasing this book. Its filled with ideas, and tips. The illustrations are beautiful, the ideas are great. This is a good book. Thanks for letting me read.

(Will Poston good reads as well)

How enchanting! The Green Witch's Garden is a very detailed explanation of how to create your own magical garden.

Easy to follow I cannot wait to start planting. Looking forward to more from this author.

This is a wonderful guide to creating a garden . The author has thoughtfully included all elements of gardening here including building onto your practice. It is beautifully illustrated and has outstanding gardening tips throughout. This is a book to buy a hard copy of and refer to when building your own magical garden. This book will teach you how to cultivate your garden, maintain it, keep it healthy and relate your plants to your practice. A wonderful read I look forward to adding a hard copy to my library . Very well done to the author.

Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity. My review opinions are my own.

This book found me at a time of beautiful synchronicity. I was beginning to research planting my own magical garden. Arin's books are always so insightful and a few of them I reference often. This book guides you through various ways of beginning and tending to your magical garden. I've always heard that if you want to grow closer to plant spirits and Mother Earth, nothing is more rewarding sowing seeds into the dirt and watching them grow before you. I cannot recommend this book enough to the people who are hearing that call.

This book is a practical and magical guide to planting a garden, connecting with the earth, and learning the properties of plants. It offers so many incites into herbs and their meanings, and how they can be integrated into a witch's practice.

Magical intentions aside, The Green Witch's Garden would also prove handy to anyone looking to build a garden and learn about different plants and seasons. It's the kind of book you want for reference on your shelves, and one I'd love to buy when available.

Honestly, I’m notorious in my family for having a little bit of a black thumb and I’m trying to change that. I am interested in herbs and their traditional magical properties and I love harvesting them from my mother’s garden and using them in cooking. However, since I don’t live with my mother, learning how to not kill the green things is a goal for me. That’s where this book comes in, to give me a lot of little tips and tricks so that I am not constantly killing the plant babies.

It has a lot of information on the growing and the designing of a garden. I love the idea of the moon garden, but then also the elements garden with different plants corresponding to their different moon phases or elements. I would love to have a moon garden when I eventually have a home of my own. However, as usual my favorite part of this was the cooking section.

Recipes for jam and herb butter are easy enough for most practitioners, but I’m personally more interested in trying my hand at the savory shortbread cookies. The vegetable soup recipe also looks good, if a bit standard. I’ve made some of the recipes from her other books and they’ve turned out to be delicious so hopefully these will be as well.

Overall, I would recommend this for fans of her other books. They make a really great collection for anyone just starting out on their path or starting gardening. There are a lot of really great ideas in here to get people started or to use as the base inspiration for something more complicated. I look forward to getting a copy of this for my shelf in the not so distant future.

Arin has again written a great book for those beginning on the garden witchcraft journey. Filled with plant information, garden rituals, and so much more, The Green Witch’s garden is one I’d recommend to new garden witches and experienced practitioners alike. Now I’m excited to get my indoor winter garden started and start planning my outdoor garden space for next spring. Thank you Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

First off, I went into reading this a little biased. I have read and currently own every single of Arin Murphy-Hiscock's books.

Two things I'm very passionate about are nature and the history and teachings of a green witch! I knew, the moment I saw this book was to be published, that it would be an auto purchase. To be honest, I ordered myself a copy last night after devouring this entire book in one sitting.

Bravo, Arin!!! Her teachings help continue my path, education, and journey towards becoming a more in-depth witch and one with nature!!!

FIVE STARS!

My grandfather, who hailed from southern Italy, swore by a few things in life. Growing your own tomatoes to make sauce, growing your own grapes to make your own wine, Ben-Gay, and growing your own to heal your ills. I hate the way wine tastes, so that’s never been a thing for me, and I swear by cannabis salve for cramps so no Ben-Gay for me either, but homemade sauce is a staple in my house and being so interested from the time I was a little girl putting together dandelions in squishy mud to make pretend facial masks, to finding a mentor and taking herbalist courses for a few years. I consider myself a lifelong learner about herbs and I’ve never ceased to be awed by the bounty of healing, beautiful gifts Nature provides for us.

I was impressed with Arin’s book, which is well-written, seems extremely well researched, and is very comprehensive. It’s highly visually appealing (just look at that cover! and laid out in a clean way, with frequent, beautifully drawn illustrations to show examples of what the author is trying to convey.

I really enjoyed this one and I’m looking forward to putting some of the gardening tips I learned here to use in my soon-to-be garden at our new-to-us house.

* 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝑹𝑪 (𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒐𝒑𝒚) 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒚, 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘. *

This lovely book goes over the magickal properties of the flora around us, as well as the spiritual aspect of gardens, gardening and nature altogether. You become familiar with plant spirits, the eco aspect of green witchcraft, alternative gardening, herbs and plants, the natural cycle and more. Overall this book was a nice introduction to someone who has been practicing for about 10 years but who hasn't build a proper witch's garden for herself. It's not a herbal medicine book, so if that is what you are looking for, this is not the book for you. This book is for someone who wants to dip their toes into the magick of gardening!


Thank you to NetGalley and the Author for providing this ARC!

I got so many good ideas for my garden next year! I would love a printed copy of the book for the pictures alone. I’m not a garden enthusiast, but I feel like this is a good starting point for me because I would like to feel connected to the earth.

FANTASTIC book for anyone gardening library. Not only does it list a vast majority of flowers and herbs, their properties and growing techniques, but also how to grow your garden yearly and what to look for year after year in terms of varying growth patterns yearly. As the author states, it's a must to maintain a garden journal.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I especially took an interest in cultivating my magical ingredients. The information is much appreciated. Thanks to the author.😀

I’ll save you some suspense, this book is excellent and I highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in magical gardening.

The author is very clear from the beginning that this is a book about Green Witchcraft, that it is not all encompassing for every gardening zone or herbal fact, it is not a step-by-step guide. Rather, it encourages readers to try, gives ideas, and is an inspiration. I fully agree – I felt very inspired while reading it.

This book touches on nearly every aspect of modern magical gardening from the traditional organic garden to guerilla gardening to indoor planting including terrariums. If you’re able to stick a plant or seeds in some dirt, then this book will likely have something you are able to do and include the magical processes around it.

As far as the witchcraft aspect of the book, I thought it was just as good and upfront about its limits as the gardening side. Its neo-Pagan in bent in order to be as accessible and open as the author can be. As a Heathen, I enjoyed the references here and there to my practice (mention of the Butzemann, Freyr, wassail, and more). As an animist I loved the discussion of plant spirits and guardian spirits of the land.
While some of it might feel basic to the well versed witch, as someone who has practiced over 2 decades, I found some fantastic inspiration in these pages to add to my craft. The Releasing a Tool Ritual and the creation of a personal Garden Oracle were both unique, heart felt, and lovely ideas.

I will be grabbing a hard copy of this book for my 2022 garden planning and work.

This is a beautiful book that is written well and easily digestible. If you are looking for a book solely about withcraft spells etc, this is not it. What this IS, is a book about gardening that shows you how to bring your magickal practice into it!

I love the books by this author and this one was an interesting one ever more oriented to beginners.
The graphical part is amazing and I liked some ideas that I could use in my practice.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine