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The Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast, produced and presented by Emma Cooper, is all about growing edible and useful plants in an environmentally-friendly way. It is completely free to download and listen to.
This week in the Alternative Kitchen Garden we’re talking about herbs you can use to make herbal teas (or tisanes).
The Latin of the herbs mentioned are as follows:
Lemon balm – Melissa officinalis, covered in episode 22
Spearmint – Mentha spicata
Moroccan mint – Mentha spicata var. crispa ‘Moroccan’
Chamomile – Chamaemelum nobile
Lovage – Levisticum officinale
Rosemary – Rosmarinus officinalis
Lemon grass – Cymbopogon citratus
Holy basil – Ocimum tenuiflorum
If you want to try making Sun Tea, then head over to the You Grow Girl website to see how it’s done.
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