EDIBLE PLANTS

If You Love Tea, Grow This Beautiful Bush! More than just a beautiful flowering bush, the Camellia sinensis tea plant is the botanical source behind the world’s favorite teas, including …

Vegetable garden soil amendments are essential for improving the structure, aeration, and nutrient content of the soil, which is foundational for healthy plants and harvests. What Are the Best Vegetable …

Lamium purpureum, commonly known as purple dead nettle, is a common weed that many might overlook (or even consider a nuisance) when tending to yard and garden. However, as with …

Stellaria media, commonly known as ‘chickweed’, is an herbaceous plant revered in various cultural traditions for its medicinal properties. This article explores the numerous chickweed benefits in both traditional (ethnobotanical) …

Stellaria media, commonly known as common chickweed, is a widespread annual and perennial flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Chickweed is recognized by its delicate appearance, including its small, white, …

Many curse the invasive nature of this tenacious plant, and with good reason, for it can and does indeed spread rapidly and prolifically. However, there are multiflora rose medicinal uses …

What is Grain Alcohol? If you’re preserving your precious herbs, you’ll want to know the best alcohol for tinctures. Grain alcohol is typically called “Ethanol” or “Ethyl Alcohol” in a …

What is Tincture? Herbal tinctures are concentrated herbal extracts typically made by soaking herbs in some form of alcohol, although other mediums may be used. A super easy method for …

We often wonder which preservation and cooking methods yields the highest nutrients in foods and herbs. So while harvesting and preparing our rosemary, I dug into the research on dried …

There are a number of ways to preserve rosemary. As with other herbs and vegetables, rosemary preservation extends the life and use of the herb and its many wonderful benefits. …