Medicinal and Culinary Herbs

Production and marketing information for herbs, edible flowers, and specialty cut flowers. 

Project reports, resources, and organizations to support the production, processing, and sale of herbs, including culinary and medicinal herbs.

Search plant, chemical, activity and ethnobotany databases. Includes an ethnobotanical dictionary and links to nutritional, cancer treatment and other plant related databases.

Profile describes marketing culinary herbs, market outlook, as well as production and economic considerations for starting an herb farm.

Directory of crop profiles, overviews, references and links to related information.

Provides wholesale prices for a variety of culinary herbs on a regional basis by commodity.

A search for “herbs” in the National Agricultural Library’s collection on the Internet Archive returns texts from the 1800s to the 1980s. Browse nursery and seed catalogs and USDA publications. Use the menu on the left to narrow results by year, topic, or creator.

The rare books collection at the National Agricultural Library includes a number of herbals. View digitized pages from titles including The British Flora Medica, A Curious Herbal, and Culpeper’s Complete Herbal and English Physician.

Archived bibliography intended for organic gardeners and small-scale organic farmers. Covers resources on gardening techniques, plant varieties, geographic locations and philosophies. Addresses landscaping, soil fertility, edible plants, ornamental plants, pest control and various aspects of an "organic lifestyle." Updates Organic Gardening Agri-Topic, a guide to resources published before 1989.