by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
So I decided on what the herb of the month for February was going to be, way back in January but it’s taken till now for me to get the blog post up. There are reasons for that, including the long anticipated birth of my latest step-granddaughter but as today is...
by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Many of our herbs have long standing traditions of being used as both a food and for medical purposes. Some of our earliest known records go back over 6000 years, well before the time of pregnancy tests. However, these days, we do like to be safe with what we consume,...
by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Taste and flavour appreciation is very much down to personal preference and that’s especially true for herbal teas. I often mix my herbs together to create blends that create specific flavours that I’m wanting at the time but if you’re unfamiliar...
by admin | Jan 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
You’ll notice on my herb packs that there are two names. There’s the common name i.e. nettle and a latin name, i.e. Urtica dioica. So what’s that all about? The late, great Sir Terry Pratchett once wrote in his famous Disc World series, that what...
by admin | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
So Christmas and the New Year has passed and most people are now stuck between that feeling that they should be demotivated and invigorated whilst also knowing that there’s at least two more months of winter weather to get through and the short days and long...