Pivoting towards culinary and medicinal herb growing

Here is my booth at my very first farmers market in Hartford.  It is Forge City Works Farmers Market next the the Firebox restaurant, Thursdays 11-2pm.

 

This year I decided to focus growing culinary and medicinal herbs, and making herbal teas and tinctures to sell at local farmers markets in my area. I have taken so many herbalism courses and been to so many herbalism conferences over the past 20 years that there is no excuse to finally just do it.  Working with plants from seedlings to harvest, to turning them into beautiful health-promoting products, is a joy.  Make no mistake, there is A LOT of work involved and timing is critical at each stage of the process.  Then there are challenges in drying the herbs--a food dehydrator is not always effective and sometimes the old fashioned way of drying herbs by hanging them upside down is the best. As usual I am still learning--but learning about something I love is a joy.