” The finest and safest of all medicinals” is how Chamomile is described by Rosemary Gladstar. What’s not to love about Chamomile? It’s has beautiful little daisy-like flowers that would look great in any garden, it’s gentle enough even for babies, and it has so […]
Creating a Herbal Notebook I want to share with you an exciting tool I’ve put together to wrangle all the new information we are gathering about herbs; a Herb Notebook! I’ll share the benefits & purposes of an herb notebook, break down each category I […]
A cold dreary December day lulled to bored restlessness by the steady drizzle of rain. The perfect day to get new seed catalogs with pages exploding with life and color and fresh energy for spring. The seed companies really know what they are doing sending out […]
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 […]
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 […]
As the weather has gotten colder I finally got motivated to figure out how to 1. harvest & 2. overwinter my stevia plant. It has been happily residing on the side of my house next to the air conditioner all summer, but I haven’t done […]