I wrote this a while ago for my dear friend Tessa over at Homestead Lady (link here), (who just so happens to have a wonderful sale on her book all about prepardness. Grab it if you want an excellent work book to help you along!) but as garden season is coming, and so many of us are planning our gardens, I thought it might be worth publishing here as well...
Last year found me in my garden running from herb to herb, desperately trying to save my little friends before they succumbed to the frost.
I had a large, very large box, that I cut into as I went.
Freezing my hands off.
After I thawed, and washed all the herbs of their dirt, I noticed I had a massive pile of goodness I didn't know what to do with. I already had quite a bit drying, and this was extra.
Enter Summer Tea.
I collect mint, so there were 11 types of Mint. 2 types of Pineapple Sage. 2 types of Lavender. 8 different Basils. Rosemary. Catmint. Monarda. A few leaves of Yarrow and Mullin. And so much more.
From that, I just slapped them into a very large, flat box. Turned them once a week to break up the moisture, and kind of forgot about them.
Come January, I was cleaning up my storage room to find some mint tea. We do like tea at my house. I came across this lovely batch of dried herbs.
I crushed them all into smaller pieces and put them into a large glass jar. I used my immersion blender to crush into smaller pieces. This made the most lovely tea ever.
This summer I grew even more medicinal and culinary herbs and made it on purpose. Our family finds this to be very useful in keeping us healthy, and also keeping our tea addiction under control. haha
The first year we made simple tea bags, or used reusable strainers. This year, we even consume the leaf bits as we drink our tea.
If you have a surplus of herbals this summer, this makes a lovely way to use them up.
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