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Give a big farmgirl welcome to Lacey Berg of Aspen Herbals, a new Project F.A.R.M. (First-class American Rural Made) business member. Handcrafted in Baker, Montana, Aspen Herbals sprang forth from Lacey’s love of nature and desire for natural body care. Why Aspen? ” One will never find a single Aspen,” says Lacey. “They grow in communities, sharing a common root system. We thrive on community, and that’s exactly what we’re building here at Aspen Herbals.”
To win this herbal sampler (solid body lotion, eye balm, and lip tint), share with everyone here what your favorite herb is and why it’s your favorite in the comments below. We’ll put your name in a hat and draw a lucky winner soon. Stay tuned!
Lavendar
My favorite herb is Lavender! I grow it and use it in my bathing, cooking, laundry and for fragrance my home. I also share it with family and friends. I thank you for the chance to win these lovely products.
Lavender is my favorite herb. While living in England for 5 years while my husband was in the Air Force, we got to travel and tour, 4 Lavender Farms. There are more than 100 herb farms in England, mostly growing Lavender. The amazing thing when visiting them, the moment you got out of the car, you smelled Lavender. It was so beautiful with rows of purple fields everywhere you looked. I’ll never forget those wonderful trips and the smell of Lavender fields. When guests come to our home for overnight visits , they receive a basket with Lavender lotion, soap, and powder to take with them when they leave. I have the same items for them to use while visiting. To me, it’s such a relaxing herb to use for so many things. Bathtime, scented linens to sleep on and drawer sachets for lingerie are good thingso to add Lavender to. I love it.
Peppermint! Love the smell, the taste. I put a drop of the essential oil in my water.
I too love all the herbs others have mentioned, but I’m going to pick sage. Those velvety soft leaves smell so lovely and are quite tasty in a variety of dishes. I love to add pieces of fresh sage to my scrambled eggs. I’ve heard sage is useful for cleansing a room of bad energies too! 🙂
Lavender is my favorite. A few drops on a kleenex when I go to bed helps me relax. I use it in a mister to scent the house and calm my daycare kids down.
My favorite herb is dill weed. I add it to scrambled eggs. I also grow mammoth dill in my butterfly garden for the emerging butterflies to eat.
Lavender is my favorite herb. It is calming and possesses a lovely fragrance.
My favorite herb is winter savory – so useful in so many dishes, well behaved in the garden, beautiful, and perennial so no need to replant each year.
Mint. From freshens one breath to flavoring food & beverages. Clean and oh so nice!
my fave is rosemary..its for remberance and grows in the winter. If you brush against it you are gifted with a wonderful smell and it tastes good in several of my favorite foods.
Is stinging nettle leaf an herb? If so, I would say that is my current favorite for tea. I found it when I was researching how to cure a UTI naturally. I love it, esp. when mixed with Dandelion leaf tea. For cooking…would have to say basil
I love rosemary, mint, and others, but my current obsession is lemon verbena. Our house smells fresh with the oil in the diffuser. Laundry and hand soap smell divine. The tea is refreshing iced. Scrumptious in sorbet. Lemon verbena is just a wonderful multi use herb.
my fave is rosemary..its for remembrance and grows in the winter. If you brush against it you are gifted with a wonderful smell and it tastes good in several of my favorite foods.
I love so many Herbs, but I guess I will go with Lavender because of its soothing qualities!
Rosemary is my favorite. I just LOVE the smell. Easy to grow, beautiful, delicious and good for medicine too.
Basil! Absolutely!
Basil Lemonade in summer-Cozy fragrant Italian pasta in cold weather and pesto anytime…this why I love Basil all year long!
Rose is my favorite, favorite, favorite! It’s calm in any storm, it’s beautiful, it’s delicate, it’s bold, and brash. It’s the perfect herb for a true lady 🙂
My favorite herb is DILL WEED. Love it on fish, in salads, dressings, mixed with yogurt and lemon, and deviled eggs. The fresh fragrance and taste is so delicious and addictive!
Lavender is at the top of my list. Love growing and drying. Use oil for diffusing, headaches, muscle relaxer, and main ingredient in my crafted perfume spritz.
Mint cause everything tastes and smells better with it in it.
Thyme is one of my favorite herbs. I use it in dried herbal blends, tea, and fresh. It’s one of the components in 5 Thieves Vinegar.
My favorite is lavender. Just because it is comforting and relaxing and makes me feel special.
My favorite herb is rosemary. I love the clean relaxing scent and the outstanding flavor.
Pineapple Sage. Love brushing against in the garden. Bees and butterflies love it! And when it is blooming makes a beautiful addition to sunflowers and love lies bleeding!
I love basil. Makes the house smell great when cooking with it. I also use basil scent cleaning supplies.
Rosemary is my favorite herb in the winter. I have a pot of it on my kitchen windowsill. I love to rub it between my fingers to release the fragrance, and enjoy a bit of a smell of Summer.
My favorite is purple cone flower: it’s beautiful in the garden, the birds love the comes in the fall and the roots are a great antibiotic.
Peppermint, it’s a really good all purpose herb with so many uses! Cleaning, drinking, food, medicine, and pest repellant!
My Favorite herb is the nettle. It can be used in so many different ways
I have lavender sachets on the night stand. Rosemary and basil for cooking.
I love thyme! I love the flavor it adds to chicken dishes and that wonderful smell when hanging on the drying rack. I grow it in flower boxes on our deck rail and use it fresh or dried.
I love to cook with parsley, it make everything taste so fresh. As for scent, love lavender….so soothing.
PEPPERMINT! Wonderful for tea that soothes upset tummys or congested sinuses! Rub some on the back of the neck for when you have a headache!
My favorite Herbs are calendula and arnica. I make massage oils from them both and love what they do for the skin.
Basil, hands down!!! My grandmother, who came from Italy when she was 12, always had basil growing whether it was in her garden or in a pot on the kitchen window sill. I save one 4′ x 4′ plot for basil alone, such as: Genovese, Cinnamon, Lemon, Licorice, Thai Sweet Basil to name a few. I love the aroma it has in the garden, the many uses in food and drink but especially enjoy remembering my grandmother teaching me to cook with it and having me press it between my fingers to smell it rich fragrance.
Sandlewood…I love its earthy scent especially in soap.
Basil tops my list because it flavors so many foods . It not only enhances but it’s nutritious too. I use most of the herbs in food preparation.
I love to diffuse lavender and cook with thyme.
For eating I use dill in everything and like the way it looks growing in the garden. For smell I guess it would be lavender. So calming.
I love my black mint here in the high desert of NM. It doesn’t need loads of water and can get by on just dew or light showers for some time. It’s strong minty flavor is a knockdown favorite of mine. It dries well and the strong minty flavor lasts and lasts. It would make a good jelly, something I haven’t done with it yet. I have used it with honey and lemon for a sore throat though.
Hard to choose…so I’ll go with lavender. I can use it in cooking, baking, simple syrups, home remedies. So versatile.
My favorite herb is Rosemary. The scent is enchanting.
Lavender is my favorite herb. I love everything about it. The color, smell, and taste. It is a healing and soothing herb. Makes wonderful sachets, lotions, lip balm, etc. Great for craft projects too!
I love how Lavender makes me feel and the aroma of my sometime gardens.
I love the fragrance of Patchouli and it’s healing properties.
I love so many herbs! I work with them. My very favorite to grow and use is chamomile. I have many lovely memories of my grandmother giving me chamomile tea for everything. If you were sick, sad, crampy, trouble sleeping… chamomile! My fondest memory is from when I was in high school. Whenever my Moon cycle came and I felt awful, Grammy and I would have some chamomile tea, watch an old movie (usually Fred Astaire,Humphrey Bogart, Or Audrey Hepburn), and she would crochet. And there was usually a patchouli incense burning ❤
Basil! I love to run my hands through lots of herbs, but I can’t cook without basil.
Lavender because it has so many uses, and smells wonderful,too!
Rosemary. Goes so well with everything and so easy to grow, harvest, cook.