Earth & Herbal
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Growing, remedies, plant profiles, and what it actually looks like to bring herbal living into everyday life

The Delicious Kitchen Herbs I Missed All Winter
There is something about stepping out to the patio mid-cook to cut a handful of fresh kitchen herbs that makes dinner feel a little more magical. The smell hits you before you even get back inside. That is the part I look forward to every spring, and the part that

What a Patio Container Herb Garden Taught Me
The first summer I grew cucumbers in a container along with my container herb garden, I learned something I never would have figured out right away in a bigger garden. The flowers were blooming, fruiting, and then drying up and falling off. The little fruits would start to form and

The 4 herbs I always keep in my kitchen and why
My stomach was doing something it had been doing for weeks, and I finally got tired of waiting for it to stop on its own. That was it. That was how this started for me, officially. I went looking for something that might help, and I kept landing on the

What I Stopped Doing in My Yard (And What Showed Up When I Did)
Turn your backyard into a wildlife habitat I stopped caring about raked leaves many autumns ago. I read one thing about what lives in that leaf litter over winter and I could not unknow it. Ground beetles. Native bees. The eggs of moths I had been planting flowers to attract