WHAT IS IN OUR HEALING GARDEN
Time to build some gardens! Everything we grow is for either dietary or medicinal.
Here is our complete “starter” list of plants we are growing in our backyard. Perennial gardens are low maintenance and will come back each year with minimum work.
Perennial Vegetables
- Chives
- Onion Heads
- Egyptian Walking Onions
- Garlic
- Artichokes
Trees
- Quaking Aspens
- Elm Tree
- Cotton less Cotton
- Red Maple
- Oak
- Flowering Pear
- Flowering Plum
- Pine Tree
- Lilac
- Honey Locust
Fruit
- Apple
- Peach
- Pear
- Raspberry (red and black)
- Strawberry
- Blackberries
- Currant
- Honeyberry
- Gooseberry
- Boysenboy
- Serviceberry
- ElderBerry
- Sumac
- Jostaberry
- Seaberry
- Buffaloberry
- Goji berry
- Nanking Cherry
- Coral Berry
- Nannyberry
Herbs (Teas/Medicinal)
- Raspberry leaves
- Strawberry leaves
- Blackberry leaves
- Mint (Peppermint, Spearmint, Catmint, Corsican, Chocolate, Orange, Sweet)
- Bee Balm
- Comfrey
- Yarrow (Red, White, Pink, Yellow)
- Mullein
- Fennel
- Calendula
- Chamomile
- Feverfew
- Mallow
- Borage
- Dead Nettle
- Valerian
- Yellow Dock
- Horehound
- Lavender
- Aster (blue)
- Sage
- Lambs ear
- Daisy
- Holly Hocks
- Honeysuckle
- Coccineus
- Dianthus
- Lavandin “Dilly Dilly”
- Salvia
- Day Lilly
- Echinacea
- St. John Wart
Spices
- Oregano (Italian)
- Parsley
- Cilantro
- Sage (Garden, Pineapple)
- Thyme (English, Hot & Spicy)
- Rosemary
- Basil (Lemon, Sweet)
- White Top
- Lemon Basil
- Dwarf Curry
- Savory
- Tarragon (Mexican, French)
- Sweet Marjorm
Roots
- Dandelion root
- Marshmallow root
- Rhubarb
- Sunchoke
- Sunflower root
- Wild Radish
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Julie
Julie Smith is the Education Director for the Joseph Smith Foundation. She is the former owner of the Glenn J. Kimber Academy in Lehi, Utah. Julie served as a regional trainer—establishing 18 schools in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. She is a certified teacher for The Thomas Jefferson Center for Constitutional Restoration (TJC) and taught the Making of America seminars written by W. Cleon Skousen and Glenn J. Kimber. Some of her children also traveled across the nation, assisting in teaching during these seminars. Julie taught history and Book of Mormon classes for 10 years. Julie is the mother of 5 children and grandmother to 7. She homeschooled for over 27 years, working through family challenges including pornography addiction, testimony faith crises, and teenage rebellion. She writes and teaches on strengthening the family, working with troubled youth, practically applying the teachings of scripture and the Prophet Joseph Smith, and celebrating higher standards. In her spare time, Julie also enjoys gardening, managing her .5-acre homestead, and hosting Sunday dinners with her family! Her home is a revolving door of guests and friends as her family hosts cultural celebrations and teaching events.
