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Gardening Resolution: Grow a Year of Herbs!

Happy Official Spring to my gardening kinsmen and any budding green thumbs! Another season is upon us and I do hope to find more time this year to blog. I’ve been…absent these past few months to due work.

Anyhoot, the Hubs and I have been at this micro-homesteading thing for only a few years. We’re still noobs, but every year we translate new learnings to reoptimize our 100ft by 90feet growing space for greater productivity. Inevitably, we revisit the topic of how much food (fruits, veggies, eggs at the moment) we need to produce to sustain 2 adults for a calendar year.  While our personal situation makes this quite improbable at the moment, we discovered that we can easily grow a year’s worth of our favorite herbs (and some spices).

Mint, rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil, shiso, savory, cilantro, parsley, scallions, mitsuba, and so many more! Pound for pound, herbs are one of the most expensive items in grocery stores. Growing fresh organic herbs and drying the excess for winter storage is a very attainable goal for many folks, so if you are new to gardening, this is a very practicable place to start.

Here’s to a beautiful and productive growing season~

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Pink Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [3024 × 4032] [OC]