
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 ...

February 3, 2025 | By Maryann Readal
What does a wooded area and a gin and tonic have in common? They both may contain HSA’s Herb of the Month, juniper (Juniperus communis). The ...

January 27, 2025 | By Maryann Readal
I thought it would be an easy task to gather a list of the best books read by the four online HSA Book Clubs in 2024. But what I learned was ...

March 25, 2024 | By Chrissy Moore
A few years ago, the National Herb Garden installed a display called “Beer Garden: Beer Like You’ve Never Seen It Before.” This seasonal ...

December 18, 2023 | By Andy Bello
There are many plant species that have been utilized for thousands of years for their medicinal and therapeutic properties. These species have ...

February 10, 2022 | By Bevin Cohen
I began my herbal journey as a young teenager, living with my grandmother in a small apartment on the edge of town, where the city's manicured ...

February 2, 2022 | By Maryann Readal
Bay laurel, Laurus nobilis, The Herb Society’s Herb of the Month for February, has been a symbol of achievement, power, and victory from early ...

September 13, 2021 | By Mara Sanders
If you are a plant enthusiast like myself, you might get pretty excited browsing next season’s plant catalogues. But all the acronyms (from TM ...

June 14, 2021 | By Bonnie Porterfield
As you drive along State Rt. 91 in Hudson, Ohio, you pass a community park, Darrow Road Park. As long as I’ve lived in Hudson (38 years), it's ...

March 15, 2021 | By Erin Holden
As an herbalist I’m interested in many aspects of plants – from their use in herbal and conventional medicine, to lore that informs us how those ...

January 14, 2021
The Herb Society of America is Seeking Design Art!
Organizers for the Virtual Educational Conference and Annual Meeting of Members (EdCon) to be ...

June 22, 2020 | By Cipperly Good
The riches that the British, French, and Dutch explorers found in Maine came not from gold, but in the form of fish and lumber. Having ...

May 11, 2020 | By Maryann Readal
Seeing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of strings of what looked to be brown seeds hanging in stores around holy places in India made me extremely ...

April 13, 2020 | By Jen Munson
For many people, mushrooms, lichen, and other fungi are exotic forest species. For the amateur, they are difficult to recognize by name, while ...

January 13, 2020 | By Pat Greathead
Raspberry, Rubus spp., is the International Herb Association’s Herb of the YearTM for 2020 and The Herb Society of America’s Herb of the Month ...

December 23, 2019 | By Susan Leigh Anthony
For the past six years I have worked at a wonderful, high-end garden center. Among the many seasonal items we sell throughout the holidays are ...
April 17, 2019 | By Beth Schreibman-Gehring
Petals falling
unable to resist
the moonlight
Sakura, sakura
they fall in the dreams
of sleeping beauty”
-Yosa Buson
My childhood worldview ...

March 11, 2019 | By Kathleen M. Hale
I suppose every family has universal cure, the thing you apply or ingest that will cure whatever ails you. My family had several. My German ...