herb garden

"This has got to stop!"

That was the title of a viral video I made about buying plastic packages of herbs from the grocery store. And people were either in love with the idea of growing all their own herbs instead... or pretty upset with me. 

This podcast covers my "recipe" for growing your own year-round supply of herbs. That includes rosemary, basil, chives, cilantro, parsley, and all your other favorites. 

We can all do this. We can all grow the herbs we need even in small spaces, even without a green thumb—yes, really!

Imagine a world a few years from now where these plastic boxes at the store no longer exist and we’re walking next door to hand some freshly picked rosemary and parsley to our neighbors. We can make that happen! 

Here’s to changing the world one herb plant at a time!

As always, Gardenary is here to suppport you and help you grow to the next level. You can find all kinds of resources to keep you growing year round at gardenary.com. 

I’d love to connect on Instagram and see how your herb growing is going. Will you take a moment to take a selfie with your herb garden and tag me @gardenaryco? I can’t wait to connect!

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Grab the Gardenary planting calendar for free at www.gardenary.com/podcast. 

For full show notes, head to the Gardenary blog. 

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It might seem difficult to grow your own herbs, but like so many things in herbalism, it’s all about being open to experimentation and maintaining good observation. And for the herbalist, there are great reasons to do it! Not only will you be sourcing your herbs as local as it gets, you’ll learn a lot about the plant from tending it, supporting it, and nourishing it as it grows. Then, when you make medicines from it later, it will tend, support, and nourish you in turn – an intimate cycle of life.

Growing herbs for yourself can be simple, especially if you start with the “easy mode” herbs and methods. There’s no shame at all in having your garden live in 5-gallon buckets, whether you live in a city apartment and have only a small porch to work with, or because you’re new to some land and not sure how its ecosystem works yet. Prolific, weedy herbs are not only very easy to grow, they’re also some of our best medicine plants – so they’re a great choice for beginners too.

In this episode we share some experiences with small-scale herb growing at home. We hope to inspire you to get started this spring. Start simple, start small – but start! When harvest time comes around, you’ll be glad you did. 🌱

Herbs discussed include: lemon balm, calendula, evening primrose, mugwort, fleabane, solomon’s seal, sunflower, basil, sage.

Once you’ve grown your herbs, you’ll want to make remedies from them! It’s not hard, and it’s very rewarding to produce your own herbal medicines from seed to sip. You can learn everything you need to make over two dozen different types of preparations in our Herbal Medicine-Making course – check it out today!

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Our theme music is “Wings” by Nicolai Heidlas.

You can find all of our online herbalism courses at online.commonwealthherbs.com!