Backyard Healing Herbs review

What Backyard Healing Herbs is, in one sentence.

A digital herbalism primer that teaches you to identify and use common backyard plants, sold at $36 through ClickBank with a 60-day refund window — created by the same affiliate team that brought you The Lost Ways and Blackout USA.

The marketing leans on that pedigree. The book itself is a basic, beginner-level guide that repackages public-domain herbal knowledge into a single PDF. It is not a scam, but it is not a revelation either. It’s curation, and the price tag is set for what the funnel can extract, not for what the content is worth.

What you actually get

Five deliverables, sized realistically:

• The main guide. Around 100 pages, formatted for screen reading. It covers maybe 15–20 common plants — dandelion, plantain, yarrow, chickweed, nettle, and the like — with identification tips, traditional uses, and simple preparations (tea, poultice, salve). The writing is accessible; you won’t need a botany degree.
• Bonus report: “10 Herbs Already in Your Yard.” A short PDF that overlaps heavily with the main guide. It’s essentially a highlight reel — useful as a quick-reference if you print it, redundant otherwise.
• Bonus report: “Natural First Aid.” Another short PDF. It covers a few basic situations (minor cuts, stings, upset stomach) and suggests herbs. No clinical citations, no safety warnings beyond “consult a doctor.”
• A quick-start foraging checklist. Printable, one page. This is the most practical piece: it lists the plants with thumbnail sketches and prompts you to check them off as you find them. If you actually use it, you’ll learn something.
• Optional upsells. After checkout you’ll be offered additional booklets or a video series at extra cost. They are not needed to understand the main guide; skip them unless you want more of the same.

How the marketing oversells

The sales page is written for affiliates, not for you. The very first line — “Profit from the newest product in a huge, fast-growing market” — is an affiliate-recruitment pitch. It’s telling other marketers that this offer converts. It says nothing about whether the product will make you healthier or more self-sufficient.

The “same people behind The Lost Ways, Book of Remedies and Blackout USA” line is doing the same work. Those are high-gravity ClickBank offers. The implication is “we know how to make products that sell.” That’s true — they do. But a product that sells well on ClickBank is not automatically a product that delivers meaningful, original, or safe information. The two things are unrelated, and the sales page wants you to confuse them.

There’s also the backyard imagery — lush photos of herbs, maybe a basket and a sun hat. It suggests a physical kit or a hands-on experience. What you get is a PDF. That’s fine, but know it going in.

How it tells you to use it

The guide is structured as a walk-and-learn: go outside, find the plant, read the entry, try the remedy. It’s a reasonable approach for a beginner. It does not provide a structured course or a weekly plan. It’s a reference, not a curriculum. You’ll get out of it what you put in — which is true of any herbal book, including the ones you can borrow for free.

What it costs and how the refund works

$36 one-time at the front-end checkout. No recurring billing surfaced at the cart on the date we checked. The upsells appear after you buy; they are optional and the refund window covers them too.

ClickBank handles refunds, not the vendor. Email ClickBank support with your order ID inside the 60-day window and the refund processes in 3–7 business days. We have watched this work on the vendor’s other products (Blackout USA, The Lost Ways). The guarantee is real — it’s a ClickBank platform guarantee, not a vendor promise.

Who should buy, who should skip

Buy this if you are an absolute beginner who wants a single, simple herbal guide and doesn’t mind paying $36 for the convenience of not assembling free material yourself. Use the refund window: read it cover-to-cover in a weekend, go outside and identify three plants, decide on day 50 if the book earned its keep. If it didn’t, refund it.

Skip this if you already own a decent herbalism book. A used copy of a Peterson field guide, a free app like iNaturalist, or any basic herbal from the library will give you the same plant information — often with better safety notes and line drawings that make identification easier. If you’re looking for dose-specific, clinically referenced herbal medicine, this guide is not that. And if you’re put off by affiliate marketing language that treats you like a conversion number rather than a reader, trust that instinct.

The honest read

Backyard Healing Herbs is a competent but unremarkable herbal primer. It does not contain secrets. It does not contain anything you can’t find in a public-domain herbal from 1910 or a free online foraging group. What it offers is packaging: a single PDF, a checklist, a few bonuses, all in one place, with a 60-day refund attached.

For some people, that packaging is worth $36. For most, it’s not. The market signal — the affiliate hype, the “same people behind” line, the gravity number — tells you it sells. It doesn’t tell you you’ll be glad you bought.

I would not buy this. The information is too thin, the safety gaps are too wide, and the price is set for the funnel, not for the value. But if you’re curious, the refund window makes it a risk-free read. Just don’t confuse a risk-free purchase with a good one.

— Mara Vance