I planted my first two lemon balm plants in my back door garden in 2002.  After a friend advised it made a good herbal tea, I began cutting and drying my plants and produced a wonderfully delicious herbal infusion that became a favorite of myself, friends, and neighbors.  After several years of increasing demand, Randy and I decided to try our hand at the business of raising lemon balm and producing the dried herbal tea for sell to the public.

We planted nearly 1,000 lemon balm plants in the spring of 2005.  All of our plants were raised by us from seed, transplanted into 4” pots in our own greenhouse, and then planted into the garden.  Although not certified as organic growers, we only use organic products in our garden.  We planted our second garden of lemon balm in the spring of 2006 and harvested garden No. 1 that May.  We are pleased to say that our first harvest was very well received by tea lovers and fully sold out.  Our second harvest increased production by 50% and we have nearly sold all of it.  Our third harvest will be this spring.

I hand pick, wash, and process my lemon balm into a dried loose-leaf form.  We package our herb in a high quality decorative tin pretty enough to display on your kitchen counter.  Because we sell our herb loose leafed, we also sell loose-leaf tea-brewing accessories we have selected from the better known tea companies in the U.S, Europe, and the Orient.