In this episode of Your Central Florida Yard podcast, Andrea Nikolai, the Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent, joins us to talk all things herbs! From growing to cooking, health benefits to recipe ideas, it’s thyme for a fun episode!
 
Many people are interested in supplementing their grocery store purchases, adding more vegetables to their diets, and just want to learn to grow food! If you aren’t sure what herbs to grow in your central Florida yard, how to use them in the kitchen, and the health benefits they provide we will talk all about it on this episode of Your Central Florida Yard. 

A new episode out now from Your Central Florida Yard

Your Central Florida Yard, a podcast from UF/IFAS Extension Polk County has a new episode on growing and cooking with herbs. Listen to it on Apple, Spotify, or where you listen to podcasts.

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Your garden checklist

We want you to try growing and cooking with herbs! Try growing at least one of the herbs mentioned in this episode, and take a few of Andrea’s ideas and start using herbs in cooking on a more regular basis. Let us know what you tried and how you enjoyed eating more herbs! Tag us on social media @PolkGardening and @PolkFCS. 

Learn more

• • Find your local UF/IFAS Extension office
  • If you are not in Polk County, Contact your local UF/IFAS Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Clinic
  • Your Central Florida Yard newsletter
  • Herbs in the Florida Garden  
  • Herbs: A Series of Helpful Fact Sheets  
  • Homemade Potting Mix 
  • Advanced Seed Starting (info on scarification) 
  • Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to You?      
  • Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap to Some People?     
  • Clinical Efficacy and Tolerability of Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis L.) in Psychological Well-Being: A Review  
  • Shopping for Health: Herbs and Spices   
  • National Herb Day:1st Saturday in May  
  • National More Herbs, Less Salt Day: Aug 29 

The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Program is a volunteer-driven program that benefits UF/IFAS Extension and the citizens of Florida. The program extends the vision of the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, all the while protecting and sustaining natural resources and environmental systems, enhancing the development of human resources, and improving the quality of human life through the development of knowledge in agricultural, human and natural resources and making that knowledge accessible.

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