We are excited about the new herb garden at Blue Hen Farm. Opal basil, green basil, chives, rosemary, thyme, parsley, sage. We added burro’s tail sedum, sunflowers, and a patch of green cotton.

The summer savory is doing well, and but the cilantro has already bit the dust! Difficult to grow cilantro and coriander in Florida. The flax is hanging in there, although we don’t hold out a lot of hope for that either. There’s a patch of dill for pickling cukes, but we haven’t been able to get the white cotton or the bee balm to germinate!

Many of these herbs are used in our Signature Herb Tea recipes. We have teas that promise to calm your nerves, reduce your stress, lower your blood pressure, and lift your spirits. The difficulty is that these things happen over a period of time, not immediately as with antibiotics and prescription drugs.

What herb teas do is help to balance the good bacteria and bad bacteria to support and strengthen your immune system so that your body can fight its own wars. Lesson learned: it takes consistency and patience. That’s actually not a great surprise…just hard to do.

Happy Homesteading,

T.