Medicinal and Culinary Herbs

We offer fresh cut herbs for cooking, herb plants, tea blends and seeds for planting your own herb garden. Many of our medicinal herbs are harvested for making teas, oils, salves, tinctures and other products for MoonWood Botanicals, our home-based herbal products business. We start most of our herb plants from seeds and cuttings here on the farm, and tend and harvest the plants with respect and appreciation, harvesting at the peak of potency and flavor. Keep in mind that most herbs traditionally thought of as being culinary herbs also have medicinal properties. Here is what we're growing for the 2011 season:

Large Leaf Italian Basil

Osmin Basil

Lime Basil

Cinnamon Basil

Greek Basil

Tulsi or Holy Basil

Sweet Dani Basil

Magical Michael Basil

Cilantro

Greek Oregano

Common Thyme

Chives

Garlic Chives

Dukat Leaf Dill

Flat Leaf Parsley

Peppermint

Spearmint

Lemon Balm

Horehound

Stevia

Catnip

Anise Hyssop

Chamomile

Borage

Calendula

Arnica

St. John's Wort

Comfrey

Echinacea purpurea

Monarda fistulosa and didyma

Clary Sage

Marshmallow

Elecampane

Valerian

Skullcap

Elderflower and berry

Wood Betony

Grindelia

Codonopsis

Ashwagandha

Astragalus

Milk Thistle

Nettles

Greek Mullein

Spilanthes

Sweet Annie

Motherwort

Milky Oat seed

We are also growing demonstration beds of at-risk and threatened woodland medicinal plants including black cohosh, goldenseal, ginseng and bloodroot.

In addition to our cultivated herbs, there are numerous medicinal plants growing wild here. This is a partial list:

Jewelweed

Coltsfoot

Broadleaf and Narrow Leaf Plantain

Red Clover

Dandelion

Cleavers

Common Violet

Sweet Cicely

Boneset

Slippery Elm

Witch Hazel

Wintergreen

Chickweed

Sassafras

Poke

Goldenrod

Burdock

Mullein
Yarrow

Chickweed (Stellaria media)

stinging nettle seedlings - a noxious weed to some, a nutritious and medicinal plant to others!