Herbs - Page 4 of 28

  • Design

    Gardening With a Three-Year-Old Assistant

    My name is Bethany Davis, and I live in Southern California. My gardening experience is somewhat varied. I grew up in rural Wisconsin, where my mother's in-ground vegetable garden was…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Rosemary is Still Rosemary Despite Name Change

    Rosemary by any other name is still rosemary, unless the Royal Horticultural Society decides to change its name. What will its scientific name change mean for vegetable and herb gardeners…

  • Article

    Elderberry and Fire Cider Elixir

    After I posted the recent blog on fire cider, I received a request for this recipe--so here it is. Hopefully, you froze some elderberries when they were in season, if…

  • Article

    Wild Rice with Cranberries and Hazelnuts

    We are gearing up for the annual Herb Harvest Fall Festival at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas on the weekend of October 2 to 5. For this…

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    Summer Solstice: Time for Farmers’ Markets, Gardening, Seasonal Bounty and Weeds

    It is that time of year again already! Today we celebrate the true arrival of summer with the solstice--the longest day and shortest night of the entire year. Not that…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Herbs with Anise-, Fennel-, and Licorice-Like Flavors

    I recently did a program at the annual Herb Society of America conference in Madison, Wisconsin thus titled; this is a modified version of the handout. Since we are celebrating…

  • Design

    Simple, Elegant Container Plantings

    Today we’re in Malvern, Pennsylvania, visiting Carla Zambelli Mudry’s wonderful garden again. We’ve visited it before in the summer and earlier in the spring when the daffodils were blooming, and today…

  • Article

    Grow an Herbal Tea Garden

    Is there anything more refreshing than a glass of iced tea on a hot summer day? What makes that tea even more delicious is growing your own herbs to prepare…

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    Farro Salad, Mediterranean-Style

    Recently, someone gave me a bag of farro. I have cooked farro, which is a type of wheat berry, as well as kamut and spelt in my past, however not…

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    Wild Weeds and Seasonal Greens

    Just finished teaching a folk school class on Wild Weeds and Seasonal Greens at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas. We foraged for weeds and combined them with…