Herbs are flavor powerhouses and can be available at farmers’ markets during all seasons. While this isn’t a traditional recipe, it’s a creative and fun way to have herbs in your kitchen. You can make a wreath for tea herbs (mint, lavender, chamomile) and/or culinary uses (sage, thyme, rosemary like we did). Have some fun with this DIY with a functional final product!
Suggested shopping list
- Herbs and dried foods of choice
- Kitchen twine or string
- Floral wire (dark colored twisty ties work great too!)
Step-by-step instructions
- Buy fresh herbs and choose a base for your wreath.
- Wash and dry herbs completely.
- After this, bundle the herbs with wire first to hang vertically from the wreath.
- Tie each bundle of herbs to the base of the wreath.
- Use winter greens to fill out the decorative part. Choose your winter green and attach it by wrapping the wire around the stem and the wreath base.
- Add in springs of the herbs, and then whatever else you’d like for more decoration. We used dried chiles de arbol and red delicious apple slices.
- Hang the wreath and let the herbs dry.
- When your herbs are dried, cut off the bundles and use as much as you need in recipes.
DIY and photos by Alison Penn.Â
