Herbal teas

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It's blooming time, and I start to harvest some flowers to dry and store them for winter herbal teas. These are clover flowers, roses and bitter orange flowers. When they [...]

Sun tea -a recipe from Native Americans- is an alternative way to prepare tea without boiling the water but using the sun's heat instead. I harvested a bunch of white mint in [...]

During the summer I harvested herbs for a new blend of tea, which I have called 10 herbs. Some of these, such as vervain, lemon bergamot and anise hyssop were grown to be used [...]

Chamomile flowers should be harvested before they fade, washed and dried in a ventilated, not humid, dark place. Then you can store them in a container, away from light and heat [...]

Many perennials are emerging from their winter dormancy and now are ready to be harvested. So it's time for a good afternoon tea. From the left: Calamint (Calamintha [...]

Have I mention before how much I love cinnamon basil? Its cinnamon aroma can't be described, the plant is still producing fresh leaves in November and the flowers... are in the [...]

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Creating my own herbal teas mixtures is one of the reasons why I grow aromatic herbs. This herbal tea with spice seeds is an idea for a sweet herbal tea. Seeds herbal [...]

My partner and I love any kind of tea, and always enjoy new mixtures. This spiced tea is one of my favourite: you can use dried ginger or a slice of fresh ginger. Ginger spiced [...]

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