Welcome to The Backyard Patch

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Welcome!

This is an informative website for those who enjoy herbal tea, cooking herbs, growing herbs and making crafts and bath items with herbs. We have articles, newsletters, how to instructions, recipes, and other wonderful information about growing and using herbs. The recipes we have written and collected are slowly being placed into an archive for you to enjoy. Our Product Pages will let you explore all the different items we make and sell from herbs we grow. Our creations include herbal teas, bath items, household scents and cooking blends. Enjoy wandering!

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Last updated by Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh, 1/11/2010

To visit my e-commerce site, click on my photo to the right!

OR navigate my informational web pages using the links in the banner to the left.

OUR RECOMENDATIONS --

The Featured Product is a way to handle holiday overindulgences with HERBAL TEAS. This set of tips for handling the holiday eating can be helpful to anyone.
Winter gardening activites will be the topic for our upcoming newsletter available soon. Holiday Gifts and Decorating is the theme of our Holiday newsletter. You can also look at the previous newsletter for a couple more weeks. Just click here to see the old NEWSLETTER!
The BLOG will focus on harvesting and drying of herbs as well as some recipes for preserving the flavors for winter, like herbal vinegars and sugars. We are offering herbal vinegar and sugar for the first time in retail outlets this fall, so click her to go to eBay for some special treats! We did put up a number of recipes in the blog this past fall, so you might want to look at the archives and check those out.
We are constantly updating the LINKS page and will be joining an herb ring so you can explore other herb-related websites!
Who / What is the Backyard Patch?
If you are new to the site, The Backyard Patch is a home-grown endeavor of herb gardener, Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh. For the last 18 years I have been gardening and creating with herbs. Using the surplus and later the main abundance of my herb gardens, I have invented dozens of herbal cooking blends, teas and bath products.
On this website you can explore and share the information I have gleaned from over a decade of gardening and crafting with herbs. If you live in the Chicagoland area you can find me at local craft shows and some farmer's markets or you can experience my lectures at your local library or garden club. For information on dates, times or to ask for availability, contact me via e-mail at backyardpatch@juno.com.
Products Available--
For special gifts and fun packaging start on the GIFT BOXES & SAMPLERS page. Or you can browse our herbal products which fall into several categories: Items for BATH AND PERSONAL CARE, blends for SEASONING and COOKING, herbal items for AROUND THE HOUSE and HERBAL TEAS (actually tinctures) for health and healing. All are now available for purchase through my eBay store. Click this link to view our eBay home page!

If you are interested in ordering anything but are not registered with eBay, please send a list of items in an e-mail to backyardpatch@juno.com. I can send you an invoice for anything you wish to order. Lists of products and new items we have available are featured in the links above. We have an on-line newsletter available through the on-line store as well. Read the most current issues of our print newsletter using the "NEWSLETTER" link in the panel along the left side of this page.