The Virtues of Gerard’s Herbal
...rnets, Archive.org, hosts a copy of John Gerard’s 16th century bestselling foraging manual, The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes. I’ve embeddified it as an alternative to spending an evening staring at the Netflix browse menu or as an opportunity for workplace dinkering. Here’s how the University of Virginia describes it, Gerard was superintendent of the gardens of William Cecil, advisor to Queen Elizabeth. Gerard was one of the most resp...