There is nothing more pleasing than walking right outside your kitchen door and finding all the spices you’ll need for a tasty and fresh dinner. How about picking a bit of rosemary for those lamp chops, or cutting a bit of that fresh dill for that flounder you’re baking,

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Drying your own herbs is easier and more economical than buying herbs at the supermarket. Of all methods of preserving food, drying is the simplest. Once the drying process is started, it shouldn’t be interrupted because molds can develop on dried foods held at room temperature. Sun drying is the least expensive

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By Mary Hanna

Herb gardening has been around for centuries and the joys of an herbal garden is well know to many gardeners. Even beginner gardeners can have a high quality of success by starting with the basics and working their way up to a more complicated herbal garden. You can plant

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By Jeff Slokum

There is nothing more pleasing than walking right outside your kitchen door and finding all the spices you’ll need for a tasty and fresh dinner. How about picking a bit of rosemary for those lamp chops, or cutting a bit of that fresh dill for that flounder you’re baking,

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Never before, even during the heyday of botanic medicine, have laypeople expressed such interest in using herbs to maintain health and to treat disease. They are under the mistaken belief that herbs are healthier and safer than over-the-counter drugs. Nor have so many herbs been so widely available before to

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