Growing tulsi can be a rewarding project for the home herbalist because this adaptogenic herb is easy to grow and yields abundantly. It’s a beautiful plant as part of the landscape, and you’ll also be able to enjoy the incredible fragrance whenever you work in your garden. I’ve grown tulsi for three years now. The…
Using loose-leaf herbs is an economical way to make healthy herbal teas. You can often buy a few ounces of, say, chamomile for the same price as a box of chamomile tea sachets- and the same holds true with most herbs. Once you have collected a few different herbs, you can even experiment with blending…
Welcome to Just for Fun Fridays! This is a new feature here on the blog where I share some of the interesting non-herbal things I’ve done recently. I admit – I’m one of THOSE dog moms. We celebrate the dog’s birthday AND give him people food (in moderation). So of course I had to make…
I ordered seven tea (Camelia sinensis) plants this past spring. It’s part of an experiment here at June Apple to see if white tea might be a viable crop for us. I thought it would be fun to share this particular work in progress because it illustrates an interesting aspect of farming and homesteading: you…
Welcome to Modern Alchemy Mondays! We will be exploring herbs and herbal preparations in this mainstay weekly feature. Today, I’m going to walk you through one of my favorite summer projects: making a heavenly herbal glycerin (aka glycerite) from albizia flowers. Albizia, or mimosa, flowers are small tufts of pink adorning the Albizia julibrissin trees…
Adaptogens are a group of herbs that support everyday health by assisting our bodies’ response to stress. I’ve written an entire recipe book with easy ways to add adaptogens to your daily wellness routines, but today I want to explore one adaptogen in particular: Albizia julibrissin, also known as mimosa and Persian silk tree. Albizia,…
Nettles are a big part of my farm plan. There are so many possible ways to use and market them – as fresh greens, dried for tea, made into cordage. . . multipurpose crops are generally a good bet! The video at the end of this post shares how we are establishing our nettles patch…
Today’s video is a brief tour of what the garden and herb farm looks like going into this summer. Some of our big garden and herb farm goals for this year are: begin establishing 30ft perennial herb beds mulch everything in to help with weed suppression trial motherwort and tulsi varieties add more varieties of…
So, who wants a to have an awesome little herb farm in Dalton, Georgia? We do! So we’re going to start one. . . and blog about the whole process. Ryan (my boyfriend) and I both come from farming families. This is a project we’ve been wanting to try for a while. We have been…
When is the best time to harvest yarrow? Like waiting on strawberries to be ripe, judging the best time to harvest yarrow means you’ll need to check your plants periodically and evaluate what stage they have reached. Here’s how to tell the best time to harvest yarrow based on your weather and the plants themselves.…
