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Finding Gold

The year I started studying herbs, I couldn’t take

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JAN BERRY lives on a small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains

The Beginning Herbalist

Create your own apothecary by turning your home and garden into an herbal medicine chest.

Easy Herbs for Every Garden

Start your garden small with just a few common miracle workers, and go from there.

Secrets to Starting Seeds

Let’s start at the very beginning; it’s a very good

Cut & Dried

Drying your herb harvest offers an easy way to preserve its flavor and usefulness for projects and recipes year-round.

To Preserve & Serve

Herbs can be used all year if you preserve and prepare them properly.

Heal My Aching Bones

Herbs can often help calm muscles, tendons and ligaments, as well as soothe the body’s pains.

Out of the Weeds

These common plants aren’t undesirable at all — they make great medicine.

Foraging for Natives

Take a look around; medicinal herbs are everywhere.

Goodnight Sweetheart!

When counting sheep just won’t do, turn to these seven herbs to get a restful night’s sleep.

What’s Best for Stress?

Nature has provided plenty of help to combat everyday tension and anxiety.

Mind Your Own Beeswax

Beeswax is a wonderful ingredient you can use to make your own salves and balms.

Where Nature Meets Nurture

Soothe, nourish and protect your itchy, aching skin with these easy-to-grow herbs.

Teas to Please

If you do anything with herbs, making a delicious, refreshing, delightful hot beverage should be at the top of the list.

Going Viral

When the common cold or its cousin, the flu, has you feeling blue, turn to herbs for relief before you hit the pharmacy aisle.

The Language of Plants

Herbalists use herbs that resemble various body parts to treat ailments of those body parts.