We grow many kinds of cooking and medicinal herbs for tea etc.
They do really well at our elevation and the bees love the flowers.

Borage has edible blue flowers. These pretty lavender/blue flowers look beautiful when used for decorating any kind of food especially salad. The bees love it!

We’d love to hear about your garden, please contact us:

 

Kandice & Rodney Crusat

P.O. Box 6932

Ocean View HI 96737

(808) 929 8198

 

Email: kandicecrusat@gmail.com

or rodzukes@gmail,com

 

Genovese Basil

We make a wonderful pesto with this basil.

Cilantro - It is short lived and goes to seed quickly, but it’s worth the effort, as the taste is wonderful in many recipes.

 

Download my free PDF recipe book which has lots of healthy home grown product recipes.

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Echinacea
So far we have not dug up the roots.

Anise Hyssop has beautiful purple flowers which make a sweet anise flavored tea, especially if you add a few stevia leaves. The leaves can also be used in tea, or as sushi wraps and in stir fries. The birds and the bees love the flowers and it seeds readily.

Hyssop is a medicinal herb that has a very strong taste as a tea. Use flowers and leaves. Tastes better with Stevia leaves added.

Female Cannabis

A medicinal plant with many uses.

Download Our Free PDF Cannabis Oil Recipe Book

French Tarragon

(Aka Mexican Marigold)

Stevia has a wonderful flavor in fresh herbal tea. Our plants keep growing year after year. We cut all the stems down to the ground when they flower and they all come back.

Parsley -  We like the big leaf Italian parsley for it’s lemon flavor.

Aloe - In Hawaii Aloe grows to a gigantic plant. The sap inside the leaves is great for sunburn.

Hawaiian Mamaki - An ancient herbal plant endemic to Hawaii which is related to the nettle plant, but without the thorns. The dried leaves are made into a tea which can  lower blood pressure dramatically.

Fern Leaf Dill - Interesting taste resembling sweet pickles when combined with stevia leaves.

Dill Flowers - They make pretty cut flowers before turning into seeds.

Fresh Herb Tea

 

Wash herbs and dry on paper towels

Discard the woody stems

 

Chop all leaves and flowers finely

 

Add to tea pot loose or in some type of tea basket or wrap in cheese cloth

 

Pour boiling hot water over the herbs in the tea pot

 

Let it sit for at least 10 minutes

 

Remove tea leaves or strain into tea cups

 

Amount of herbs used is to taste. A good rule is to use 1/4 cup of fresh leaves for each cup of water.

 

Experiment and have fun!

Chervil -  A  soft ferny herb with a slight anise flavor.

Catnip Mint - If you have cats plant some fresh catnip for them and feed it to them fresh. They love it and it is good for them too.

Drying Mamaki For Tea - Bundle several stems of the top leaves after washing them. Tie tightly and hang in a breezy place out of the sun, dew or rain. It’s dry when the leaves are crispy.

Lemon Grass - Easy to grow. Add it to your vegetable juice, juice it and make tea, or add it to a soup stock.

More Beds! In the spring of 2020 we found an area above the garden that was flat and would allow for more beds. We thought we had enough, but we wanted to try growing ginger, turmeric and galangal and they can take a year before harvesting them. This would take a big share out of our regular growing beds, so more beds was in order. We add the juice to our fresh vegetable juice every day, so we go through a lot. We have 3 types of turmeric growing; the Hawaiian variety called Olena, a purple Asian variety and a yellow. If you’ve never tried Galangal and can find it in an Asian market, try it. It tastes like flowers with the spicy taste of ginger.