Garden Thyme Herbs

07/16/2025

🌿 Want fuller growth and more blooms? These perennials actually thrive with a hard prune.

07/15/2025

Join us! The historic 200 year old garden is beautiful!

Join us for an exciting program with Sharon Stewart from Garden Thyme Herbs!
Discover the art of harvesting and using herbs from your very own garden. Participants will leave with delicious recipes, creative ideas, and sample products made right on site!
Cost: $15.00 (all proceeds go towards the historic garden fund)
Registration is suggested to ensure we have enough supplies.
📞 Contact the Hall at 315-397-2323 to register today! Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to enhance your herb garden knowledge and bring a taste of nature to your kitchen!

07/14/2025

I’ll have to try this again . Did it years ago, and it was terrible!?!?😣

07/14/2025

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07/10/2025

In the medieval world, nettles were far from being just an irritating w**d they were a plant of many talents, woven into daily life in ways that might surprise us today.

Walk through a medieval village in early spring, and you’d likely see people gathering fresh, young nettle leaves, careful to avoid the sting...or not!

After a long winter with little access to fresh food, nettles were one of the first green plants to appear, packed with nutrients like iron and Vitamin C.

They’d be simmered into soups and pottages, or brewed as a tea to restore strength and ward off illness.

But food was just one part of the nettle’s usefulness.

The tall, fibrous stalks were stripped and processed much like flax.

Their tough inner fibres could be spun into thread and woven into cloth.

It wasn’t luxurious, but nettle fabric was sturdy and practical, a sort of "poor man’s linen."

In fact, nettle textiles were still being made in parts of Europe well into the early modern period.

Medically, nettles were a staple in the herbalist’s kit.

From treating joint pain and arthritis to clearing the skin or easing digestive troubles, they were used in teas, poultices, and salves.

Some remedies even called for the sting itself, deliberately brushing nettles against aching joints to stimulate circulation and reduce pain.

A bit extreme by modern standards, but it speaks to how deeply people trusted nature’s pharmacy!

Even in farming, nettles had their role.

Dried nettles made a nutritious fodder for animals, and when steeped in water, they became a natural liquid fertiliser, boosting crop health and growth long before the age of chemical feeds.

So next time you spot a patch of nettles swaying by a hedgerow or creeping along a woodland path, don’t just shy away from them......embrace them!

07/06/2025

07/06/2025

There are soooo many at our house!! ❤️🤓👏🏻

06/28/2025

Just restocked our teas at the Humblebee Depot Market in Lyons Falls. Stop in to the adorable little shop and shop local grown and made products, and especially HumbleBee Farms hydroponic greens, etc! You won't be disappointed!!😁

06/27/2025

Grows everywhere, mistaken for a w**d, yet powerful enough to empty hospitals... 💬👀