| There are numerous ways to package dried herbal | | | | and the common people to intermingle. A well-known |
| teas for sale, from tea-themed gift baskets to home | | | | tea garden of 1765, Ranelagh Gardens, hosted the |
| spa tea collections. Also, they can be sold as individual | | | | nine-year-old Mozart as a performer. No local Mozart |
| live potted plants. These are usually for your | | | | to invite? A commercial garden in Washington State |
| customers' gardens, but some tea herbs can be | | | | hosts a local harpist every Mothers' Day. |
| grown on a windowsill or porch, or even on your | | | | For selling away from home, you can offer to host |
| customers' desks at work. | | | | tea tastings for a fee. Benefits and other gatherings |
| Live potted plants ready to be placed in the | | | | enjoy such services, especially if their people get to |
| customers' gardens can also be sold in themed | | | | meet the actual farmer. |
| packages, such as a collection for a summer iced tea | | | | Also, look for a listing of local tea houses. A teahouse |
| postage stamp garden, or as a collection for the | | | | the author inquired into even asked for edible flowers |
| customer's own gift garden, where they grow tea to | | | | along with tea herbs. |
| harvest and dry for gifts they give to family and | | | | Stay safe, and keep potential customers safe. Check |
| friends. | | | | into all local regulations on safe harvest and storage, |
| Harvested and dried herbs can be sold bulk as | | | | and know what can and can't be said as far as |
| individual plants, or exclusive specialty blends can be | | | | medicinal claims. These laws change, so make sure |
| created with your home business's label. | | | | your information is recent. For example, St. John's |
| Herbal teas make great products to wrap with other | | | | Wort was reportedly banned in France, while its |
| related products into gift baskets, from simple herbal | | | | production continues in other countries. In some |
| tea samplers to elaborate tea party gift baskets with | | | | cases, you can be allowed to describe health claims if |
| the inclusion of resale items such as ceramic tea pots | | | | an established research entity has made the claim, |
| and infusers. | | | | and you quote them. The non-profit Herb Research |
| Making direct contact with potential customers | | | | Institute, (HRI) may be of help in this area (see |
| involves both allowing visitors to your gardens, or | | | | below). According to the HRI, scientific credibility is |
| selling the herbs off the premises. For visitors, larger | | | | essential to bolster consumer confidence in herbs and |
| tea gardens can become healing sanctuaries | | | | for the continued growth of the industry. Since its |
| themselves, where replicas of Japanese tea gardens | | | | founding in 1983, HRF has served as the central |
| or historical European herb gardens can be re-created. | | | | archive of scientific literature on the health effects |
| In the 18th century, popular coffee houses, which | | | | and safety of botanicals and has developed the |
| were then considered somewhat rough places where | | | | world's most comprehensive collection of clinical trials, |
| competitive business deals took place, began to give | | | | pharmacology, toxicology, chemical, historical, and |
| way to high-class tea gardens at the insistence of | | | | horticultural data on thousands of herbal ingredients. |
| the ladies. Some of these gardens were almost | | | | HRF's current collection consists of more than |
| visions of paradise, with lantern-lit walks, music, | | | | 300,000 articles. |
| dancing, and where exotic landscapes allowed royalty | | | | |