Welcome to The Backyard Patch

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 have all been recently updated to allow you to explore all the variety of items we make and sell from the herbs we grow.  Our creations include herbal teas, bath items, pet herbs, household scents and cooking blends.  Enjoy wandering!

Happy Herbing!  ~ Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh

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This website was last updated: 1/14/2012

• Check out the Advent Calendar beginning November 27, for a daily recipe, craft or other fun gift to move you to the holiday, for those who enjoy winter recipes throughout winter we are leaving this up until the end of January. 
• The Winter Newsletter has now been posted, just click the newsletter link on the left column.  This season we are highlighting skin care for the winter,  The Fall Newsletter will be up a bit longer with Tea jelly and warm winter drinks.
• Recipe of the Month!  Comfort food is the requirment for cold short days, so this month I posted a Hearty Beef Stew where you can use a Bouquet Garni to bring in the perfect herb flavor.  You can find last month's stress reduction herbs in the Recipe Archive.    
•  Shopping Cart has finally arrived! This website is now shopping cart equipt.

  You can now purchase direct from the Backyard Patch without going to our e-commerce sites.  Choose the "Add to Cart" buttons to add items to your cart and the "View Cart" button at the top of each page to see what you added.  We are using PAYPAL protected purchasing so we never see your payment information and you have a variety of payment options.  
• To our joy we more articles published in a wonderful herb-theme magazine called The Essential Herbal.  And if you are looking for a gift for yourself to have an herby new year, try a subscription!  The January / February is the start of thier 10th year and it features two sets of recipes from me, so if you like soup recipes and other winter and Valentine's day herbal specialties, now is the perfect time to subscribe and get the newest issue hot off the presses.  Here is the link to The Essential Herbal Magazine website if you wish to subscribe and you can get special prizes this month too! 
• I have been enjoying biking in the seasonal chill, but I back that up with a warm beverage when I get home, so I thought I would share a few Hot Spiced Cider recipes with you. Check out the seasonal beverage ARTICLE by clicking this link.    
• The Featured Product for this season is Cinnful Dessert Blend.  I have included a number of recipes for the blend and just for this season we are offering it in two different sizes for those who want to stock up on this versatile blend. Check out the shopping cart button at the bottom to buy the blend direct and save on shipping too!
• We recreated our BLOG on an outside webpage with greater exposure, please become a follower or just stop by to read seasonal herb tips or enjoy a wealth of recipes.  January is Hot Tea month and we are carrying this through many of our postings this month including herbs for tea in the Herb-of-the-Week (on Wednesdays.)  The new blog is located at: http://www.backyardpatch.blogspot.com/.