I'm sure you could! I can't really use any magic, either, not really, but- I realized that healing is a type of magic, too, and we do it all the time, with herbs and everything!
[So if she takes a look at the books, maybe she'll find something she knows in her world that others would classify as magic... or maybe--]
I wonder if you could grow them here, on purpose? Back home, we always just find them by chance...