How Long Should Herbal Tea Be Steeped?

I’ve gotten several emails lately asking about how long to steep loose herbal tea simples and blends. The fact is that there’s no one magic time that serves every single medicinal plant out there, but we can certainly make the process of figuring it out a whole lot easier. In my experience it’s very hard …

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Cooling Herbal Spray

Warm weather days are just around the corner, so it’s time to start getting ready to beat the heat and love your skin as the rays make their way to wherever you are. One of my favorite ways to get all of the benefits from healing herbal tea when I’m on the go during the …

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Stress Tonic Herbal Tea Recipe

I am about to share my favorite personal daily herbal tea recipe with you, and I hope that each and every one of you will go out of your way to try this tea and see just why I hold it in such high esteem. Tonic teas are amazing because they are extremely gentle to …

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3 Reasons To Grow Lemon Balm This Year

I love gardening, and even though I don’t have a huge yard with lots of workable soil, I find creative ways to use containers and pots to watch all of my favorite medicinal herbs sprout. Many people have been asking me what they should grow this year and which herbs are the friendliest to new …

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How To Replace Soda With Herbal Tea

For all of my fellow soda lovers out there, the title of today’s post probably sounds pretty horrible. Replaces soda with herbal tea, really? I agree that it seems strange, but hear me out! A little known fact is that some of our favorite sodas started out with herbal or plant-based flavorings, so we can often times …

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Healing Herbal Tea : Passion Flower

Passion Flower (Passiflora incarnata) is one of the most visually stunning and beautiful flowers I have ever seen. Its complexity and color palette makes it stand out, and there’s something to magnetic about the way it looks. Passion Flower is actually a flowering vine that is native to the West Indies. It grows up just …

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