by herbsocietyofamerica | May 30, 2018 | Other Gardening, Other Research & Education
I’m a big fan of talk radio especially NPR. So when podcasts exploded in popularity I was thrilled. For those unfamiliar with podcasts, they are audio programs (usually music or talk) in digital format for automatic download over the Internet. Kind of like themed talk...
by herbsocietyofamerica | May 23, 2018 | Other Culinary
I enjoyed reading about favorite herbs so much that I wanted to give everyone a prize for responding to Win a Free Gardening Book . To be fair, though, I put each entry on a small slip of paper and drew to see who would receive Rodale’s Basic Organic Gardening : A...
by herbsocietyofamerica | May 21, 2018 | Beauty, Other Culinary
You know that people say that in dreams, we cannot read? We see the letters, but they don’t make sense. I think I only noticed that after I was told it was true. Your results may vary. At one time very few people could read. So they turned to signs when they needed...
by herbsocietyofamerica | May 14, 2018 | Other Culinary
Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare, has traveled widely with humans. This relative of asters and ragweed started in Europe and Asia. It was used medicinally by the Greeks, was included in Charlemagne’s famous collection of herbs, and is now having a modern, if imaginary,...