All the herbs I always grow

And all the ways I use them

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Herbs at first mention sound underwhelming. Like, who cares about thyme? If you can buy it at the grocery store easily, it seems quite pedestrian, right? Wrong.

First of all (queue me stepping onto my soapbox), storebought herbs are either sprayed with toxins or are old and moldy (though you can’t see that) or have lost their potency, or are just expensive and packaged in those little plastic cages of doom. Secondly, if all you’re doing with your herbs is using them to garnish a roast, then you’re doing it wrong. Sorry for the big sister attitude (not sorry).

Let’s take a common household favorite: rosemary. She is quite the character and brings a lot more to the table when used outside of the kitchen. Truly, I used to feel like rosemary was so boring and not that great in food (though I have the BEST rosemary biscuit recipe below), and then I started making hair rinses and it transformed my scalp. Basic blah rosemary all of a sudden secures her permanent spot in my garden.

All herbs have this not-taught-in-school alter ego of usefulness and magic.

All that to say, here are the herbs I always plant and why: