
June 2, 2025 | By Maryann Readal
Garlic chives, Allium tuberosum, are one of the versatile herbs that belong in every garden. It is a tasty culinary plant with a light ...

March 17, 2025 | By Sammy Bellman
Eggs have been a canvas for art for most of civilization. The oldest carved and dyed eggs found by archeologists were in South Africa, dating ...

February 19, 2025 | By Greg Susla
The question often comes up regarding how people knew which plants had medicinal value and what conditions they could be used to treat. It’s ...

September 2, 2024 | By Maryann Readal
Garlic, Allium sativum, is The Herb Society’s Herb of the Month for September. This is the time to get excited about garlic if you want to grow ...

February 5, 2024 | By Maryann Readal
Paprika, The Herb Society’s Herb of the Month for February, is the national and beloved spice of Hungary and a symbol of its cuisine. Hungarians ...

April 17, 2023 | By Peggy Riccio
I love being able to step out into the garden and snip fresh herbs whenever I need them. Yesterday, I was making ham and bean stew in the ...

December 20, 2021 | By Beth Schreibman-Gehring
I was sitting here at my desk trying to think of what I could say about the Winter Solstice that I have never said before. Then I started to ...

December 6, 2021 | By Maryann Readal
The spice that we call cloves comes from the clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum. This evergreen herbal tree is in the Myrtle (Myrtaceae) family and ...

June 28, 2021 | By Katherine Schlosser
From place to place, season to season, and year to year,
the colorful mixtures and combinations of flowering herbs
are influenced by ...

April 19, 2021 | By Zainab Pashaei
I’m not talking about time travel. Nowruz—the equivalent of the New Year—was just celebrated on the spring equinox in Iran as well as in ...

March 22, 2021 | By Andrea DeLong-Amaya
You may be one of the growing numbers of home gardeners who have put shovel to soil in the effort to nourish themselves and their families with ...

January 11, 2021 | By Karen O’Brien
At this time of year, people often investigate remedies for winter ailments, be it the flu, colds, or even just warming brews. Many herbalists ...

August 31, 2020 | By Angela Magnan
A former roommate once picked on me because I saved the crumbs from the bottom of cracker, chip, and pretzel bags. A few years later, he ...

March 30, 2020 | By Paris Wolfe
When Jeremy Umansky was at culinary school in 2006, a professor took him foraging in the Hudson Valley. They were looking for fiddlehead ferns, ...

December 9, 2019 | By Gladys McKinney
During the fall when I have run myself down with all the pumpkin recipes, I look forward to this comfort food chowder. So often we forget the ...

November 23, 2019 | By Susan Belsinger
"Sage soothes both youth and age and brings the cook pleasing praise." Carolyn Dille & Susan Belsinger, ...
May 1, 2019 | By Beth Schreibman-Gehring
“Tra la, it's May, it’s May, the lusty Month of May
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray
Tra la, it's here, it’s here, that ...
March 18, 2019 | By Kathleen M Hale
Listen, children, and I will tell you how an onion by another name gave us the name of the city of Chicago. The onion in question, Allium ...