Healing Flowers

Do you know these flowering super healers? Here are a few favorites that are easy to grow and deserve a spot in every herb garden!

Make Time! Herb Fizzy

Easy aromatics for showering. Useful to help clear your head and stuffy sinus’ in cold weather. 1 cup baking soda … More

Make these easy Herb Drying Screens!

Pick, pick, pick…are you harvesting your herbs? As summer gives us it’s late summer heat, it seems like every day … More

Do you know Savory?

The name savory is a good descriptor of the flavor of this herb. It has a bit of hot spicy flavor on the tongue. Savory tastes like a combination of oregano and thyme. The essential oils of savory and thyme are very similar in their chemical make-up so their similar flavor that can be used interchangeably in recipes

Pot Marigold (Calendula)

Recently on one of my evening walks around the neighborhood, I came upon a patch of Calendula. The bright orange … More

Easy Herbal Hair Rinse!

It’s spring! Pick a small bundle of newly emerged perennial herbs and try this easy, refreshing recipe for a clean, healthy shine to freshly washed hair.

Sweet and Simple Pot Marigold

The flower petals are edible with a tangy almost peppery taste that can be sprinkled in soups, scrambled eggs, herb butters, and salads. Harvest the flower petals for use, either fresh or dried, to make soothing skin treatments.

The Summer of Salvia

Get to know the diversity of sage. Culinary, medicinal, cosmetic, aromatic and useful in landscape design. Not all are edible, some are intensely fragrant, one is mind-altering when smoked, and some are just simply floriferous and nothing more.