A MOTHER'S NATURAL KITCHEN

Bring Grandma’s wisdom back into the family kitchen.

A Mother’s Natural Kitchen: Old Ways, Healthy Families & New Mexico Wisdom is a practical and heartfelt guide inspired by the traditions passed down through generations of New Mexican and Native family life.

Kateri Tavenner combines family memories, traditional home remedies, nourishing meals, herbal teas, and modern-day safety information to explore the ways mothers and grandmothers have cared for their families for generations.

Inside, you’ll discover traditional and natural approaches for everyday wellness, including coughs and sore throats, congestion and phlegm, upset stomachs, minor aches, skin irritation, sleep, and other common concerns. Explore a family tea cupboard featuring chamomile, ginger, mullein, hibiscus, dandelion root, peppermint, ginseng, pu-erh, thyme, sage, star anise, cinnamon, cloves, and more.

You’ll also find discussions of honey, oregano, arnica, calendula, tea tree oil, castor oil, and other traditional household remedies—along with important explanations of what families traditionally used, what modern evidence tells us, and when professional medical care is needed.

But this book is about more than remedies.

It is about feeding a family well, making soup when someone is sick, cooking affordable New Mexico-inspired dinners, teaching children where food comes from, preserving family recipes, and passing the wisdom of our mothers and grandmothers to the next generation.

Inside you'll find:

• Traditional family remedies and their modern uses
• More than 20 herbal and traditional teas
• Natural approaches to common everyday complaints
• 30 New Mexico-inspired family dinner ideas
• A seven-day sick-week meal guide
• An A-to-Z natural remedy reference
• Traditional New Mexican and Native family wisdom
• Safety information for herbs, supplements and essential oils
• Guidance for knowing when home care isn't enough

Our grandmothers didn't call it natural medicine.

They called it taking care of their family.

Part family heritage, part natural-wellness guide, and part kitchen companion, A Mother’s Natural Kitchen is about preserving the old ways while using the knowledge we have today.