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  • Just Because We Are An Herb Farm Doesn't Mean We Only Grow Herbs

    The Big Surprise When You Visit the Farm Surprise! It’s not just herbs we grow, but so much more. Many people arrive at the nursery expec...
  • Ah, August

    Time to Enjoy the Garden, Because It's Not All Work! This is it, the time to truly enjoy the bounties of all that toil in the garden from...
  • More Basil Please!

    July is the time to add another round of basil starts to your garden, to make sure you have plenty of delicious leaves for fall harvest. Nothi...
  • My First Substack!

    After 6 months of gentle prodding from my fellow gardeners and substackers Alexis Koefoed (Alexis’s Substack ) and Stefani Bittner ( Homestead Desi...
  • Raised Beds: Perfect for Your Herbs and Vegetables

    Raised bed gardening in northern California is an excellent way to grow vegetables and herbs.  The interest in building raised beds over the last f...
  • Morningsun Herb Farm 30th Annual Open House

    Join Us for Morningsun Herb Farm's 30th Annual Open House Event! A FUN FILLED DAY OF HERBAL FOOD, CRAFTS AND EDUCATION. WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE TH...
  • Chamomile: A Fragrant Flower for Everything

    Chamomile is one of our oldest and dearest herbal friends in the medicine chest.  Who of us hasn’t had a cup of chamomile tea to soothe our jittery...
  • Capers: An Unexpected Beauty in the Culinary and Pollinator Garden

    Customers and garden visitors are always surprised to cross paths with the caper plants in our display gardens.  “That’s a caper?  You mean like th...
  • Fall Planting Tips

    When fall arrives, every year we have the discussion with customers about the benefits of fall planting.  Since the mailing list for our newsletter...
  • Your Landscape Can Help Protect Your Home

    Fall is the time to get out in the garden and refresh and renew the landscape, especially after the beating gardens have taken with this summer’s h...
  • Oreganos Part II

    The August 2024 newsletter included an article on some of the more popular Mediterranean culinary oreganos, but the world of oregano includes so mu...
  • ‘Origanum’ is from the Greek words ‘oros’

    When customers come to the nursery and ask for oregano, they are always surprised by the number of questions they have to answer before we can poin...