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Grow the tea cabinet you keep buying.
Herbal tea gardens, accessible growing, and slow living from a backyard in Zone 6b. Most of what's in your tea tin will grow in a pot on your porch. I'll show you the rest.
For beginners with a yard, a porch, or one sunny window.
Open a drawer
Everything I've learned, sorted.
Over 700 posts, filed the way an apothecary would. Pick the drawer that matches what you're trying to grow.
Herbs for sleep, digestion, sore throats, and the iced tea you'll make all summer.
Soil, water, pests, and growing more food without wrecking your back.
Slow mornings, analog hobbies, and what the garden teaches when we let it.
Twenty years of plant-based cooking, built around whatever's ready to pick.
From the shelf
Tea garden guides, seed to cup.
Instant digital downloads, grown and written in Zone 6b.
Growing Your Own Tea Garden
$24
Garden Tea Recipe Book
$17
Container Tea Garden Companion
$12
82 Tea Plants Directory
$12Take the whole shelf.
All four tea garden guides for $47. That's $18 back for more seeds.
Fresh from the journal
What's growing lately.
New posts from the garden, the kitchen, and the occasional rabbit hole.
Free from the potting bench
A whole library of free guides.
Checklists, planting lists, and full ebooks. One sign-up, lifetime access, no catch beyond the occasional email about plants.
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The keeper of the cabinet
Hi, I'm Dagny.
I quit my 9 to 5 to grow food on less than an acre in Massachusetts. I keep bees, grow a tea garden that has gotten slightly out of hand, and design everything around a body that has good days and bad ones.
This is where I write down what works, what didn't, and why, so you can skip a few of my mistakes.
- Plants want to live.
- Grow what you like.
- Gardening is play.
- Get out of your own way.
Letters from the garden.
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