Planting & Using a Kitchen Herb Garden Part 2

Veteran gardener and chef, Pat Battle shares the various aspects of establishing a robust kitchen herb garden. Learn how to enhance your cooking with a collection of foundational culinary herbs. From site selection to planting, soil maintenance and pest management, find out how to be ready to plant your favorite herbs and help them thrive. This workshop includes tips for some of the best uses of fresh culinary herbs in the home kitchen, as well as creative ideas for recipes and preservation. Glean inspiration to perhaps add some lesser known herbs to your flavor repertoire. In part 2, we start with the prepared garden bed for the herbs and discuss plant placement.

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If you want trace minerals and “paramagnetic” rock dust, just look for outcrops of mafic and ultramafic rocks on a geologic map of bedrock geology overlaid with roads and streams (so that you can locate the outcrops where the rocks are exposed). Collect the rocks and crush them for the rock dust. No need to get it from utah. The minerals in mafic rocks are unstable under the temperatures and pressures that prevail at the Earth’s surface so they weather and fracture easily. No need to crush the rocks to dust, just scatter the fractured rocks around the trees as a mulch and let the fungi extract the minerals and feed them to the trees.