Helpful hint: Fine mesh bags (like the ones that yarn often comes in) make great herb dryers, because you can hang them from the ceiling and get %100 air circulation, plus you don't lose a single leaf - everything stays in the bag!

I found an interesting way to preserve basil for either cooking or the craft or both. Salt! Put a layer of salt in a clean jar then put a layer or two of basil leaves on top. Repeat until you've preserved enough or u filled the jar. Store on the fridge and you've got fresh basil leaves for winter cooking! U can cut up the basil and mix it with a nice salt like Redmond's real salt (not table salt!!) and you've got some nice basil salt for seasoning or the craft.

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Thank you! Like you said hanging by the stems in a cool dark dry place really is the key. Last month I tried laying mint down on its side and even though it was in a very well ventilated basket it looked and smelled funky after drying. The mint hanging nearby looked brilliant and smelled amazing. I use those twisty ties that come on bread or produce or I use bag clips or clothespins attached to a wire storage rack for drying. Another method I've found helpful is placing small quantities of material in a brown paper bag and attaching it with a clothespin to my rack. It even worked well for drying cone flowers.

In terms of drying herbs, I have some additional tips from my mum´s and my own experience: My mum often dries her herbs over a cardboard box (or any box for that matter) and just spans a cloth on top, clothes pins work very well for that, or string, depending on what you have on hand. If you have a very fine mesh cloth at home, that works well, or thin cotton (such as tea towels or even bedsheets ;)). I also dried some rosehips once when I did not have many resources available putting them on a lined baking tray next to the radiator. I just made sure to flip them once or twice a day and when they were dry (after about a week or so) I put them in a cloth bag and hung that up for a couple more days and just shook it once in a while. It is not as foolproof I would say, as it can be easy to forget to move the herbs etc. around but I just want to say, that drying herbs and such is possible with limited resources and that you should not feel prevented from it, because you don´t have the right equipment. Be creative, there are many things you can use (such as rubber bands from vegetables, old delivery boxes, metal racks from your oven etc.) so just give it a try and see what works for you. On a different note, this was an excellent and really helpful video and I really love this new series where I get to learn more and more about the basics of herbal medicine!! So thank you very much and I hope you all have a lovely day :)

the (closed) brown paper bag in the back window of the car method works pretty well too

Thank you for the knowledge green witch this was very helpful. Keep up the great work. Many blessings and praise the lord and creator

Just starting out on my witchcraft journey and definitely feeling drawn to herbalism specifically, so this video was incredibly helpful! Thanks for sharing, love the channel 💛💛

This was perfectly timed, thank you! And it really helps to hear someone that does it so often does still mess up occasionally as well. Because it can be quite disheartening when you are first starting!

Growing a mini indoor tea/medical herb garden soon and this is soo helpful! I’m gonna get a little area set up in my bedroom to keep all my dried stored herbs and a area for drying herbs. Times to purge my bedroom and get it all set up!! So excited that I’m finally getting into this!

I really love how you do everything with so much care. Your hand moves are very gentle, not firm as people do nowdays. You do it with full respect.

One thing I so enjoy when autumn approaches is to start drying the herbs in my garden I have been growing since spring I prefer the basket or cooking sheets on top of paper towels or cheese cloth. Thanks for sharing.

Just when I didn’t know what to watch, this is uploaded! Yeay!

Very interesting I managed to grow chamomile and mug wort so I been drying some of them in my fairy-room. Blessing 💖🐩🐩💖🐾🧹🧙‍♀️🍄🍁🕊🌈

Thank you. I'm really enjoying your approach to teaching these foundational skills. They really do open up so many opportunities for people to use herbs in their lives.

I have a single panel gate for a chain link fence that I have suspended out of direct sunlight but still able to hang my herbs to dry thanks to using clothespins

New to wicca been doing simple spells since I October 2022 and I stumbled across your chanel very informative and your voice is soothing

I've found it difficult to dry herbs in the mint family. It's very humid where I live and using a humidifier has been a life saver. I would prefer a method that uses less, if none, electricity. Gotta do what I gotta do.

thank you dear friend. I found the video useful. the climate under which people live is very critical in drying herbs.

Glad your making this as I’ve run into issues when drying some herbs. So I have wondered what you have found to be best. Hugs ✨

Do you ever ferment and dry herbs? A finnish technique, fermenting leaves in a jar for a couple of days, then lay them out to dry. It binds up a lot of the original flavour.

Thank you Annie. Loved this one. And I love the way Hazel was looking at you when you were cooking. I am learning more every day and my herbs are growing inside and out. Sending many blessings your way, and Olivia needs our blessings too.♓🌑🥰

Dehydrator. Best investment I’ve made for my herbs.

This couldn’t come at a better time!! I’ve wanted to start saving my herbs for the winter, but didn’t know how. Also, a BOOK?!?!

I tried to dry basil once and it went wrong haha. I'll try your method thank you very much for sharing

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. Bright blessings to you and yours. 🥰

Thank you for teaching us this, I can't wait to dry my herbs.

Storing herbs during waning moon prevents mold and insect infestation (based on traditional European moon magic). I have very good experience with this method.

Wow, thank you so so much! I recently started practicing and my parents grow lavender and rosemary! I wanted to dry some and put in in an unused pencil box. It was only a couple days when it got white fuzzy looking stuff all over them. I don’t know is that was normal, or if it signifies bad energy in my bedroom. I was thinking I needed to learn how to actually do this, and, well, you post! I really think this called to me, thank you so much! I now have some hanging by my window!

This was so helpful! Thank you for explaining so clearly how important this step is. Blessed be your craft!

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. Love your videos.

This is perfect timing! Thank you so much for this! Blessed be~

I really love all things live n stuff and I just love your channel, got some herbs from a market for the first time and it seems like this will be a fun process :3

Thanks to this video, I just started drying flowers for the first time! Here's hoping they'll dry well. In any case, the room smells divine 🌹❤️

This was very detailed, thank you for being thorough!

Ooo are they some beautiful bergamot flowers I see? Great video, thank you!

Very useful! Thank you!!🌿

Thank you so much for your videos, I have been watching them the past two months and find them inspiring. Thanks.

Lol I stopped trying to dry them from a bad experience 😂 so your encouragement is great!

Fantastic! Great video, and great advice on drying and storing herbs.

I suggest mesh bags when hanging to keep the dust off of them.

Perfect timing! I'm running on my lunch to get sage at the grocery store!

I’ve never clicked so fast!! All I do usually. Is out what I’m dying out on the window sill in the sun hahaha

I have been wanting to try doing this! I just lack the confidence to do it! and the plant that I want to try first is chamomile because we have an abundance growing wild where I live! thanks so much for sharing and make it look like I could make this a reality! xoxo

Have you ever used a silica pack in your jars to help with moisture after drying and storing?

Thanks for sharing I love to hang in bundles

You can also use the oven on the lowest temperature setting but this is for electric ovens, IDK about gas ones the heat maybe more intense and it may not be a good idea to use this method with it. You have to stay home when doing it and check it every 15 to 20 minutes depending on what type of herbs you are drying. Also you have to leave a crack in the oven door to prevent them from cooking too much, so closing all the way over cooks them in my experience.

Okay so I am super behind on this but I was just wondering how you labelled your herbs. You said in the video to label them and I was wondering if you only include the name and the date or if you include their tasting notes or properties as well. Basically, I just got into drying my own herbs and I am wondering what to put on the labels of their jars

I love drying herbs 🌿

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Hi! I love your content! 💞

Off topic but, the way your hair is styled in the shot where you're hanging herbs on the wall at first - wow! beautiful, elegant hairdo! Would love to see it again, so pretty.

Thank you for the video. 💜🔮🌱🐾

Question: How long does the magickal/medicinal use of a dry herb usually last? do they have an "expiration" date? or do they get less powerful/potent the longer you have them?

Great video! If you are smoke cleansing near hanging herbs, can that alter their drying time or damage them in any way?

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Thanks so much! I learned a lot! Do the jars need to have the rubber seal?

I'm mesmerised by your beautiful rings ❤️ If you don't mind me asking where did you get them? Lovely video and very interesting and helpful! Thank you 🤗

I also place desiccant bags into herb jars to keep them perfectly dry. Living in South East Asia means the risk of having moist to enter and make the remaining herb mold simply by opening the jar 😅.

In Colorado, if I set my houseplant outside for more than 3 days it turns into a dried plant haha

Hey, Annie! I really loved this video and it inspired me to dry more herbs in my house! I especially like herbs for burning/cleansing spells. I have a question, if you want to tie up herbs to burn them, like a smudge wand of sorts... would you recommend to dry them first, or tie them and then dry them? I assume the second one would be best so they don't crumble, how is the process of drying that?

A salad spinner works well to clean herbs.

Thank you so much for this. We do t need to wash the herbs to dry if we do the bundle method then?

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Was the purple flower Scottish thistle? Awesome video!

I love to tie bundles and then tie the tails into a loop for hanging

Do you have any expetiance/advice for using a dehydrator? I have been gifted one and have been experimenting :)

What is your recommendation for drying pine needles?

I’m not sure if this is a fixable problem but I live in a very very hot place like it gets up to 110 degrees in the summer time and it’s pretty humid, so my main problem is my herbs are ready to harvest around Summer or springtime but then I don’t have a cool no humid place to dry them. The coolest irl be in the house or a closet is maybe 75-80 degrees in summer.

My preferrnce for prepared meals is Farmers fridge Or have aphed holes in the leaves Would a cheesecloth help with drying herbs?

What are your thoughts on using a dehydrator? I use one to dry my own rose petals but have always wondered if it destroys any of the plant’s properties.

Hello! Can you dry the herbs inside cotton bags and then hang the bag? I think that would keep them from light and dust maybe?

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Can you tell us what herbs do you store and each benefit of them im interested! 😊

Have you tried storing herbs that have dried naturally? I have some chives blossoms in my garden that just started to dry up after a couple hot days and wondering if I can save them now.

Because of where i live i use an air dryer machine as i often cant afford to leave them to dry on there own due to cats being curious and playful as well as i being busy with appointments and very much forgetful way to often.

can you use a dehydrator?

butcher twine might work better than regular twine

Hi, I'm from Russia, I also do herbs and I love your videos ))

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Was that burdock?I'm new and want to know what this stuff is so plz tell me It was on 5:24

so beautiful

are there any fall herbs that grow in germany and that i can bundle?

Is it okay if the leaves have a little bit of insect damage, such as small lighter spots here theve been eaten. I'v just started to look at witchcraft and herbs and i will grow a majority of my herbs outside, i have recently dried a couple leaves of mint that have damage from insects however, were washed and inspected and appear to be fine apart from small light spots where the insects have eaten. Will they still be okay to use or not?

What course did you take to learn herbalism? 🌸

How do you find out the magical properties of local plants? I've tried to research some and can't find any information. Are there any particular sources that you use?

Do you have suggestions for folks in humid climates? I live by the ocean 😭 Mold is a SERIOUS issue here.

I would love to practice witchcraft and I have been interested in things revolving around it since I was little, however, I have some kind of fear of it all. Does anyone have any kind of advice for this?

can you do a video of how to practice witchcraft when you are away from home and your alter and all of your supplies please?

Heyy I m Siddhika hope u can help me pls Make a video of making essential perfumes pls.❤️

Has anyone ever tried drying herbs in a dehydrator on the lowest setting?

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Good morning Green Witch. Everything looks lovely. Dried and stored herbs are so much better to be used for medicinal purposes than prescription drugs with side effects.

My rosemary turned black. I stored it in a glass jar. Why would that happen?

May I ask something, I know that this was about dry herbs, but how do you store fresh herbs? I keep killing my fresh mint! Any advice or tricks or hell even spells at this point, I really suck at this!

Hey Annie! Your apartment is so relaxing and serene with all the herbsd hanging. I was just wondering.... what does your apartment smell like? I imagine the aroma very pleasant like aroma therapy but is it herbal, floral, mixture of both? Do dry herbs give off a smell after they are dried and hung up?

Hello, I've been interested in witchcraft for a while but never got into practicing it. Today I think a witch cursed me and 2 of my friends. Do I need a protection spell, a purification spell or a spell to break the curse? I searched but I only found prayers