Surprising Facts About Your Favorite Herbs and Spices
Ever since humans discovered the many, powerful uses of herbs and spices, they’ve been fascinated by their smells, their tastes and their medicinal...
Create Your Own Herb-Infused Oils
Congratulations on growing your own fresh herbs! As you're harvesting your fresh herbs you may be wondering of different ways to use them. One of...
Herbs in Cocktail Drinks – From Mixology to Mocktails
Discover the best herbs for cocktails to grow in your garden. We break down the best herb cocktails and how to go about it.
Potted Herbs Make Great Indoor Accents
To keep our test garden growing strong through the winter, we’ve moved some of our favorite herb plants indoors. Our sun porch has become a haven for potted herbs and one of our favorite places to take a break or eat our lunches. Read more to find out what we’re growing inside this winter and how you, too, can enjoy potted herbs in your home.
Indoor Herb Plants: Don’t Go… Grow!
This past weekend was spent preparing my 12 favorite herbs for their trip back indoors. All spring, summer and into fall, they have enjoyed a life of rugged survival. Hot, humid days and pounding rain storms. Hot sun, thirsty days and most made it through my...
Why Are Native Plants So Important For Your Garden?
With over 35 years of growing plants under our belts, we began to focus on herbs in 2008. We'd always loved growing them, but honestly, the demands for perennials and annuals in our local market meant that herbs only accounted for about 20% of the plants we grew. Once...
Spring 2016 Rains at The Growers Exchange
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall ~ Bob Dylan Spring of 2016 will have to be told as two distinctly different stories. All was well until it started to rain in May. Already we had noticed that April...
Fall Gardening- My Favorite Time Of The Year
Why would we not start the day in the garden? The only salvation is a sanctuary, and home with a garden has the deepest roots.
Fun and Whimsical Do-It-Yourself Gardening Projects to Brighten Your Day
For most of us, spring is still just a distant dream on the horizon, while snow blankets the ground and frost sparkles on every surface of our garden. Although the wintry outdoors can be beautiful, the avid gardener often wishes spring would come early, itching to get...