Symbol Guide: 🫖 🍃
Scientific Name: Lavandula angustifolia
Source: Purple Valley Lavender Farm
Overview
Lavender hardly needs an introduction, but there’s much more to this familiar herb than its beautiful fragrance. With its distinctive floral aroma and flavor, lavender has a long history of use in herbal traditions for promoting calm, relaxation, and rest. It is also a wonderfully versatile culinary herb that can move easily from the teacup to the kitchen.
Dried lavender flowers can be steeped on their own, incorporated into tea blends, or used to create infused syrups, honey, sugar, baked goods, and other botanical creations. Lavender is also a classic addition to herbal baths, sachets, and topical preparations.
How to Use
🫖 Tea Blends: Steep on its own or pair with herbs such as lemon balm, chamomile, mint, or butterfly pea flower for a fragrant herbal infusion.
🫖 Culinary: Use to make lavender simple syrup for lattes, lemonades, iced teas, sparkling drinks, cocktails, and mocktails. Infuse into honey or sugar, or add sparingly to shortbread, cookies, cakes, and other desserts.
🍃 Topicals: Incorporate into herbal bath blends and sachets, or infuse into oils for topical preparations.
Why We Love It
Lavender is one of those herbs that earns its space in both the apothecary and the pantry. We love its versatility, its unmistakable aroma, and the ritual it brings to everyday moments, whether you’re steeping a cup at the end of the day, making a botanical syrup, or adding it to a relaxing bath.
And when it comes to using lavender in food and beverages, remember - lavender should whisper, not holler. A little goes a long way.
Disclaimer:
Information shared on this site is for educational purposes. The information provided is not intended to be a substitute for medical treatment or advice. Please consult your medical care provider before using herbal medicine, particularly if you have a known medical condition or if you are pregnant or nursing. Although we do our best to provide accurate and useful information, you are responsible to research and verify information before relying on it. We are medicinal plant and herbs farmers, herbalists, and tea blenders. We are not licensed or registered healthcare practitioners. We are also believers in the safety and efficacy of botanical medicine.