Growing and Selling Herbs

By Dolly Loepp
Published on March 1, 1971
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Photo by Fotolia/Carmen Steiner
Create a business growing and selling herbs from your garden, herbs like basil, dill and parsley can be grown and sold easily.

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A couple of warm-hearted, down-to-earth people I know — who prefer to remain nameless — are in the business, and when they opened their herb and gift shop recently, I went up for a visit. When I walked into the new shop, the clean, fresh,healthy smell of spicy herbs made my nose tingle. In side were wicker baskets piled high with dried herbs, and one wall — done in rough old barnwood framed with burlap-covered cornices — displayed a rainbow of dried flowers and grasses. The shelves were chock-full of old-timey herb jellies, sugars and vinegars, and a beautiful antique parlor stove — polished to perfection gleamed in one corner. Next to the stove, on an old wooden bench, were bags of confections . . . the kind you won’t find in a modern candy store. A big picture window held racks of already-arranged herbs and flowers in quaint, old fashioned containers and a near by greenhouse was stuffed with little pots of herb plants to set in kitchen windows and over forty varieties of herbs to plant in the garden.

From the looks of the shop, I was convinced that the herb business had to be good! But was it difficult to get into? Over a freshly brewed cup of mint tea, the proprietor of the new shop told me the following story about how his family had set up the operation:

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