Month: November 2016

Stocking Up the Herb Cabinet

Stocking Up the Herb Cabinet

This will be a memorable Thanksgiving holiday for a number of reasons including watching my toddler eat Thanksgiving dinner for the first time! As it relates to my study of herbs, it will be remembered as the weekend when I finally jumped in and actually bought […]

Year Round Herb Gardening

Year Round Herb Gardening

Looking at nature, autumn is a time of relaxing from the hustle of summer, of drawing inward and reflecting, of reaching into what you have stored away over the growing season. A blog post by Guido Mase on Mountain Rose Herb’s blog called In Gratitude […]

How to Buy Herbs?

How to Buy Herbs?

Knowledge of what to do with herbs will only go so far if you don’t have access to herbs with which to experiment. My goal is to grow my herb collection slowly as I learn how to use the herb/essential oil/etc. effectively. There are numerous places to purchase herbs […]

Herbal Preparations

Herbal Preparations

There are so many different ways to prepare herbs, it can be overwhelming to find a place to begin! Do you pop some pills, down a tea, take a dropper-full of a tincture . . .  so many options! Your decision how to use your […]

Growing Herbs: Trial by Error

Growing Herbs: Trial by Error

Growing herbs indoors can be a great idea if like me you get super excited about starting things at completely inappropriate times of the year! Our unseasonably warm weather has had me itching to start my garden when in reality I should be winterizing and […]

My Herbal Book Collection

My Herbal Book Collection

Anyone who has found my blog has probably experienced the black hole of information overload that can be the internet. For reasons of efficiency, convenience, and just in case the power were to go out, I like to have a real physical library of information […]