With apologies to Gertrude Stein, this year, “A rose is a rose is an herb.” The International Herb Association has designated the rose as the 2012 herb of the year. And delightful uses of roses abound ...

Every year, in non-quarantine years, Rose Loveall and her family and staff host an open house at her Morningsun Herb Farm in Vacaville, where guests are treated to homemade dishes featuring herbs. Now ...

Having sleepless nights? Try rose petals and see how they help you fall in deep slumber. Not being able to sleep well can be attributed to several reasons. Often, foods you eat before bedtime or some ...

Dear Scotty: If you can smoke a blunt in tobacco or cannabis leaves, why not rose petals? You’ve likely smoked out of worse. Rose-petal blunts seem gimmicky – because they sort of are – but they’re ...

The 2012 Herb of the Year is interesting and a little unusual, though it fits the quality of what an herb is. It’s just not one most of us would smack our foreheads and say, “Oh, yeah.” It’s the rose.

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