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Summer Goodness

Summer Goodness: Making use of the sun for the best tea! I'm a huge fan of sun teas, any tea can be sun tea or cold brew. I am particularly fond of Mountain Rose Herb's Hibiscus High blend, its beautiful, and natural, with ingredients like organic hibiscus, lemongrass, spearmint, orange peel, rose p...

Herb Walking in a Paradise

My sister and I traveled to Colorado recently to surprise our mother on her 80th birthday and to see my nephew and his his wife at their mountain home above Paonia. Now, when I talk about paradise, I'm not exaggerating - it is lush and beautiful and splendid! It was overwhelming the variety of plant...

Finished!

It's finished, complete, done. It was a grueling two-and-a-half-month, six-class course of study on Medicinal Plants at Cornell University's online eCornell hub. Tons of research, videos, reading, and assignments and I'm so happy I did it. Why did I do this program just after I'd finished over five....

Harvest, Hang, Done

It's been a busy day here in the McCabe household! Harvesting beneficial weeds, washing and hanging to dry, and finally calling it done. I read somewhere that Chives need to hang in a vented brown paper bag to dry properly so I'm experimenting between the paper bag and a mesh bag, I'll let you know....