![]() When you strip the leaves from the stalks, however, all the aromatic oils are released again and you’re reminded of the warm, heady days of summer (well, we had a couple didn’t we?!) They leave a delicate scent in the air which fades as they dry. There is a real feel-good factor to drying your own herbs they look gorgeous at the height of summer and they repel flies from the house when you hang them from the ceiling. I had dried some mint too and this week Little Miss green has been drinking our very own dried herbal tea. Naturally I dried nothing like the amount I could have done, but this week I sat on the dining room floor with chilly temperatures and autumnal rains outside and was transported back to summer time whilst I stripped dried lemon balm leaves from their stalks. I decided to dry some herbs to make our own herbal teas. Most of it comes wrapped in cellophane – presumably because the flavours are so strong. We’re not great tea drinkers here at zero waste towers, but Little Miss Green is partial to her herbal teas.īuying herbal tea without non recyclable packaging is even more difficult than black tea in my experience. In many instances brand have both cellophane and foil such is food packaging. It seems most tea comes wrapped in non recyclable foil packs or has a cellophane outer. The best you, dear readers, came up with on our “ The perils of the British cuppa” post was Twinnings bags and Jacksons of Picadilly for tea bags or PG tips for loose tea. We’ve talked about the great British cuppa before and mentioned how difficult it is to find a plastic free tea.
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