For everyone who has herbs in his/her garden, and wants to store them.
In this one I'm going to use mint, a plant with leaves that have a fresh, aromatic taste and scent, combined with a more cool aftertaste, used for many things: candy (chewing gum, peppermints, chocolats), toothpaste, tea and meat.
Personally I use it to make tea and add it to my meat, especially with lamb mint can taste really good, and tea made from mint has a very cool and refreshing taste.
There is one slight problem though - it doesn't grow in autumn and winter, and these are the seasons I like to drink a good cup of tea. This is the main subject of this article: how to store your herbs and how to prepare them for storage?

First, find some herbs and harvest them. Just pull them out, or even better - cut them off just a couple of centimetres above the ground. That way the roots remain in the ground and the plants can continue to grow and spread.
Next, find a warm place, preferably outside and in the sun, and hang them upside down. I use an old piece of clothing line, but any way will do as long as the plants can hang freely.

Drying time varies from type of plant to the local temperature, amount of sun and humidity, so I can't tell you anything about that. Most of the plants I dried over here took about 2 days though, at 20 degrees Celcius.
To check if they're dry enough, just see if you can crumble a leaf easily. If you can, your mint is now dried!
note: if you don't have enough space to dry the plants, just put them in the oven. If you're baking something, just lay the herbs on a plate and let them in there for a couple of minutes. This works just as well.

Now it's time to store them. In the case of mint, the only part of the plant you use is the leaves. Just pluck them off and store them in a tupperware box or whatever way you prefer.

See my results here and here. These leaves have been stored in there for almost 2,5 years now, and I still use them for my tea.

This method of storage and drying works for most of the herbs with leafs. You could try it with others, but I can't say if and how that is going to work out.

Enjoy!

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