A Year in the Herb Garden: What It Taught

December is when the year in the garden becomes visible as a whole. From the seeds started in March to the root harvests of October, from the elderflower of May to the elderberry of September, from the first nettles of spring to the last of the dried lavender in the...

How to Start a Herbal Journal

A herbal journal is both a practical record and a meditative practice, and its value compounds over time in a way that is genuinely surprising when you look back at an earlier volume. The note about the nettle harvest in March that seemed unremarkable when you wrote...