Hello everyone welcome back to this week of episodes with Tanya Anderson

Kevin here from the Epic Gardening Podcast so Tanya is the founder of

lovely Greens which is a

gardening blog a YouTube channel one that I have read slash watched actually for quite a

while I would say at least Tanya for maybe three or four years now as I started kind of making epic gardening the full time

thing in my life and Tanya is also the author of an upcoming book it's called

a woman's garden grow beautiful plants and make useful things. We've talked already about some of

those useful things, skin care plants, plants that you can use to dye all sorts of different

products, even food, but today we're going to talk a little bit about medicinal herbs again something that I don't have a lot of

Personal experience in I've certainly grown medicinal herbs. We've had a couple people on the podcast before but again. I'm curious what what is your approach and

how has your experience been growing these? Of all the plants that I introduce in the

book I would say that medicinal herbs are the ones to actually be most

respectful of especially if you're on medication and if you're growing them and experimenting with them first of all you

need to make sure that you're not allergic to anything and to not be giving

them to anyone else. So this is the kind of stance that I have that you're going to create your own home

herbalist garden and use things that are going to be safe. And one way that you know

that they're going to be safe is if they're a culinary herb. So if you're using it

in food already, you know that you're not going to have an allergic reaction and that it's probably safe to use.

Now when you are using things like time and rosemary and basil and peppermint, things like this. In food, it's generally not the right

amount to have any kind of medicinal effect on you. So using that herb and actually making an infusion or a decoction or a tincture,

which it can oftentimes be the most powerful way of using different plants for medicinal properties.

That's what you're going to be wanting to do.

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