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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, pet herbs, household scents and cooking blends.  Enjoy wandering!

BECOME A FAN -- WE have a FAN PAGE on FACEBOOK.  Click below to see our fan page and become a fan.  We post links to articles, share herb tidbits and host discussion forums on herbs in general JOIN US!  Click -  Backyard Patch Herbs on Facebook

Last updated by Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh, 3/15/2010 
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 Catnip -- not just for kitty anymore, we discuss teas, relaxation and remedies using this easy-to-grow herb.
 
Winter warming is the topic for our newsletter available now, a new one with spring themes is due soon.
   
The BLOG on Manly Scents and herbs to try this growing season is well worth reading, as is the short ARTICLE on the topic -- Winter landscape – Planting herb companions to create winter interest.  Consider these recommendations as you enter the spring garden planning season.
 
We are constantly updating the LINKS page check it out for plant and seed companies.
  
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-- 
 

Browse our herbal products by just clicking the PRODUCT PAGES link and you can view all our items which fall into several  categories :   

 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.