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The Herbal Kitchen and Giveaway!

I recently had the privilege of befriending Author and Herbalist, Kami Mcbride, via the online world of blogging.  It’s such a blessing when people can come together through similar interests and philosophies.

Kami just released her newest book, the Herbal Kitchen.

Throughout this year I’ve been writing about my heightened interest in homegrown herbs for culinary and medicinal uses.  I’ve doubled the amount of herbs I’m growing this year and I’m still trying to strategically plant perennial herbs (to my area) in my edible landscape.

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Herbs fascinate me. They are beautiful, smell of heaven and have uses that go far beyond spaghetti sauce.  I’m a still a baby to the world of herbs and have SO much to learn so meeting Kami through the blogosphere was a gift from above.

Kami had been reading my blog and offered me her book to review.

I literally gobbled it up.

The Herbal Kitchen is about the personal and communal joy of putting nature in your cupboard.  It is about reclaiming the indispensable skill of using herbs to prevent sickness and take care of home ailments. Nurturing the life around us with the medicine from the kitchen revives our relationship with the plants and empowers our ability to understand our food, our body, and our relationship to sustaining healthy life.

In reading through the forward and introduction she began to explain how we have lost the true art and skills of cooking.  Cooking using real food and the basics of using herbs to not only compliment and flavor our dishes but in their relationship to our digestive health.

I didn’t know that.  Herbs not only have healing and antibacterial properties but they are yet another way in aiding our bodies to digest and assimilate what we eat.

Did you know that stuffing your turkey with sage helps keep away colds that begin circulating around Thanksgiving?  Or that adding ginger to a fish meal kills pathogens found specifically in fish?  And when you sprinkle fennel into your meat marinades, it helps you digest the fat in the meat  more easily?

What I also enjoy about Kami’s writing is that in her book she also goes into taking things one step at a time.  With our busy world, she carves out a couple hours every week to get together with her children or at least one other person to make oil infusions, herbal honey and other herbal recipes.  She makes it fun and practical.

the Herbal Kitchen

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In the book are descriptions and illustrations on 50 easy to find herbs complete with gardening tips and their medicinal properties.  There are also over 250 recipes for herbal waters, herbal drinks, herbal smoothies, herbal honey, herbal vinegar, herbal cordials, herbal oils, herbal ghee, herbal pesto, herbal sprinkles and salt and even includes herbal foot soaks and baths.

I am personally delighted to have this book on my shelf.

The Giveaway

I am excited to share this giveaway with my readers.  Kami McBride has offered 2 copies of her book, the Herbal Kitchen, to giveaway!

To Enter:

Leave a comment as to which herb you are most interested in learning more about.

Extra entries:

Leave a separate comment for each entry, a total of 7 extra entries.

  1. Subscribe to receive my posts via email. (1 entry)
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  3. Become a fan of A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa on Facebook and share this giveaway on your wall (1 entry)
  4. Become a fan of Living Awareness Institute on Facebook (1 entry)
  5. Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post (2 entries)  Please leave 2 separate comments that you have done this.
  6. Follow me on twitter and tweet about this giveaway. (1 entry)
    @dianabauman Herbal Kitchen Giveaway, learn how to mix herbs in the kitchen and medicine cabinet. http://www.spain-in-iowa.com/?p=1381

Please Remember, leave a separate comment for each entry, or your extra entries will not count!

Every comment must include an email address – it’s ok if you comment with your blog account as long as I can get to your email through your blog!  The giveaway ends June 30, 2011 and is open to the Continental US only.  The winner will be chosen by random.org.

Good Luck!!


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About Diana Bauman

Diana is a mother of three, proud wife, and humbled daughter of God. She finds the most joy meeting with Jesus in her organic gardens. She is completely blessed to be able to call herself a stay at home mom where she home educates her children, joyfully serves her husband, and cooks nourishing, real food, for her family. She loves connecting with people on facebook, google+, pinterest, and instagram.

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  1. jamie says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:12 am

    Sweet Cicely is my most recent herbal interest. Old cookbooks use it to “sweeten” desserts. It grows in the midwest but I have yet to locate any. I have not been able to buy it dried or as a plant. Any suggestions?

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  2. Jules says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:19 am

    Subscribed to your newsletter

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  3. Jules says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:21 am

    Already a fan of yours on facebook, just shared your giveaway link

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  4. Jules says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:22 am

    Became a fan of Living Awareness Institute on Facebook

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  5. sonia says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:22 am

    Dear Diana, This is a lovely giveaway about herbal kitchen. I have subscribed to your emails and wud love to get it…thanks, sonia !

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  6. Jules says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:24 am

    I am a follower of you on twitter and tweeted about this giveaway @lostsoulhelpme

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  7. Foxmom says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:25 am

    I just love herbs but I think mint is a favorite, or maybe dill… or thyme? um.. sage? hm… 😉

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  8. Jules says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:30 am

    Posted on blog about your giveaway
    http://myrandomlifemoments.blogspot.com/

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  9. Jules says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:31 am

    Linked to your giveaway from this page on my blog
    http://myrandomlifemoments.blogspot.com/

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  10. rebecca says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:35 am

    sounds like a fun book

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  11. Sarah C. says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:39 am

    I’m interested in expanding my horizons beyond my top 5. Learning how to keep and use them year round, etc.

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  12. Sarah C. says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:39 am

    I’m a subscriber.

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  13. Heidi McConnell says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:50 am

    It is hard to narrow down one herb that I would like to learn more about, but I guess I will say fennel. I use it in my homemade pepperoni, but not much anywhere else.

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  14. Heidi McConnell says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:50 am

    I follow you on facebook.

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    • Heidi McConnell says

      June 9, 2011 at 9:03 am

      I forgot to include that I posted about the giveaway on my facebok wall, but I did share the link. 🙂

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  15. Heidi McConnell says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:52 am

    I am now following ‘Living Awareness Institute’ on facebook.

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  16. Heidi McConnell says

    June 9, 2011 at 8:57 am

    I follow you on twitter and tweeted (twittered?)about your giveaway.

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  17. Jennifer3 says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:04 am

    Looks like a neat book! I would choose calendula to learn more about today.

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  18. Maureen says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:28 am

    Oh I love growing herbs and I love to incorporate them into my meals. I would love to know more about Rosemary, Dill, Basil and Mint.

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  19. Deborah says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:44 am

    I would like to learn more about the ones I grow. Parsley, Basil, Thyme

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  20. Deborah says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:44 am

    I am an email subscriber

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    June 9, 2011 at 9:45 am

    I am a newsletter subscriber

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  22. Stephanie R. says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:58 am

    ok, i am now dying to read this book! i’m especially interested to learn more about fennel and dill… two herbs that i only know how to use in 1 or 2 ways (pickles and tomato sauce). thanks for the awesome giveaway!
    [email protected].

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  23. Stephanie R. says

    June 9, 2011 at 10:00 am

    i also became a fan of Living Awareness Institute on facebook. 🙂

    [email protected]

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  24. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says

    June 9, 2011 at 10:12 am

    Hi Diana, I am surely in for the giveaway and here is my comment for that. I would like to learn more about growing cilantro and basil as it looks like I keep killing my basil plant every time 🙁

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  25. Nicole says

    June 9, 2011 at 10:22 am

    I’d like to learn more about cooking with mint… since I always seem to have WAY more than I need.

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  26. Katie @ Riddlelove says

    June 9, 2011 at 10:23 am

    I subscribe to your blog.

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    June 9, 2011 at 10:23 am

    I subscribe to your newsletter.

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    June 9, 2011 at 10:24 am

    I “like” you on Facebook.

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    June 9, 2011 at 10:25 am

    I “like” Living Awareness Institute” on Facebook.

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  30. Miss Nirvana says

    June 9, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Great giveaway. I would like to learn more about mint. It is such a common herb, but I feel like I under utilize it in my kitchen.

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  31. Kris says

    June 9, 2011 at 11:21 am

    I have lemon balm that is thriving. I could use more ideas for using it up.

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  32. Stephonie says

    June 9, 2011 at 11:42 am

    I think I would like to know more about Ginger and Ginko.

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  33. Stephonie says

    June 9, 2011 at 11:44 am

    Posted this on Facebook.

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  34. Rebecca A says

    June 9, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    I think thyme is my favorite herb.

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  35. Nichole says

    June 9, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    I would love to learn about all the herbs, I don’t have very much natural sunlight in my apartment so no herb garden yet.

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  36. Nichole says

    June 9, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    I like your Facebook page.

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  37. Nichole says

    June 9, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    I liked Living Awareness Institute’s page.

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  38. Jennifer @ Raisin Questions says

    June 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    I planted lavender in my garden this year for the first time (first garden, too!), so I would be very interested to know more about what I can do with it! This looks like a great book. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  39. Jennifer @ Raisin Questions says

    June 9, 2011 at 2:37 pm

    I liked your page on Facebook.

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  40. Jennifer @ Raisin Questions says

    June 9, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    I liked the Living Awareness Institute on Facebook — good to get to know them!

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  41. Jennifer @ Raisin Questions says

    June 9, 2011 at 2:41 pm

    I’m also now following you on Twitter, and tweeted!

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  42. Jennifer @ Raisin Questions says

    June 9, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    I just subscribed to your newsletter, and you are now permanently included on my Google Reader feed! I’m glad you did a guest post at Simple Bites so I could get to know you!

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  43. Ashley says

    June 9, 2011 at 5:19 pm

    My favorite herb is definitely basil, although I’ve never heard anything about it having any special properties, so I’d like to learn more about it if there is more to learn. As a sidenote, I think sage has one of the prettiest blooms 🙂

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  44. Bev says

    June 9, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    I think it would be fun to learn more about the medicinal properties of herbs that up until now I’ve only considered for flavor.

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  45. Sandra says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    Pennyroyal has always fascinated me.

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  46. meemsnyc says

    June 9, 2011 at 11:07 pm

    I love herbs, especially mint and rosemary. I have a hard time growing rosemary, so i would love to find out more about how to grow it.

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  47. Susan says

    June 10, 2011 at 5:09 am

    I am new to the herb world and would just love to learn anything!

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  48. manish2010 says

    June 10, 2011 at 7:15 am

    Herbs are always popular among health conscious people like me…i use herbs in my meals daily…and your blog is helping me a lot to build up my herb treasure.Thanks a lot.

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    June 10, 2011 at 8:54 am

    I subscribe via email.

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  51. janis says

    June 10, 2011 at 10:34 am

    My knowledge of herbs is limited and my rosemary keeps dying.

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  52. redraven says

    June 10, 2011 at 10:55 am

    O MY CUPCAKES!!!!!
    I would love to learn how to cook with certain herbs, and how to infuse the flavor into cupcakes, icings, and the such, thank you so much for this giveaway, redraven, blessings to all.

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  53. Susan R says

    June 10, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    I have just began exploring fresh sage…I love it! And I’d like to learn more about the various kinds of basil and how to use them.

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    June 10, 2011 at 1:41 pm

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  56. Jennifer says

    June 10, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    I would like to learn more about mint, especially peppermint. It is something that I know will grow as a perennial here. Thank you for this oppotunity.

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  59. Ruth P says

    June 11, 2011 at 6:30 am

    My favorite herb is mint, any variety. In Michigan growing and harvesting mint for the extract was a very thriving business. I grew up with a large garden plot of mint between the garage and the cement path to the back door. As we walked to the door we’d run I hand thru the foliage, smell the air and our hands, and even pick some to chew as we entered or left the house. Learned to appreciate bees while they did their job pollenating the herbs, veggies and fruit in the back yard. What a pleasure these memories are for me, I try to recreate this where ever I live. Chives are also a favorite. Another favorite is catnip. It grows wild in the backyard. I harvest a sprig for her once a week, she loves it. I would welcome the chance to learn more and grow my garden larger. Happy gardening!

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  60. Julia @ juliecache says

    June 11, 2011 at 10:43 am

    I’m interested in learning about the herbs I grow currently — sage, chives, thyme, lemon balm, and basil — but mostly about thyme.

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  61. Janeen says

    June 11, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    I would like to learn more about the properties of comfrey.

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    June 11, 2011 at 8:03 pm

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  64. Erin from Long Island says

    June 12, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    I’d love to learn more about wood sorrel and plantain….since they are taking over my yard!

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    June 13, 2011 at 2:38 am

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    June 13, 2011 at 2:39 am

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    June 13, 2011 at 2:43 am

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  70. IAMSNWFLAKE says

    June 13, 2011 at 7:47 am

    I’d love to learn more about herbs and their uses, mainly in kitchen recipes.

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  71. Adrienne says

    June 14, 2011 at 9:32 am

    I’d love to learn more about basil and rosemary!

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    June 14, 2011 at 9:32 am

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  74. Raj says

    June 14, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    Fennel seems like an interesting herb…also the anise seed.

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  77. Kara C. says

    June 14, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    Liked the institute on facebook. awesome resource

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  78. Kara C. says

    June 14, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    love dill and basil

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  79. Sara @Learning the Frugal Life says

    June 15, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    I have a pretty good herb garden this year. Cilantro, Oregano, Parsley, Sage, Basil, Chives and Mint. I am new to the world of herbs and would really love to learn how to use them all besides in just cooking. I would love to win this book.

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    June 15, 2011 at 9:56 pm

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  82. Stephanie says

    June 16, 2011 at 12:00 am

    I love using herbs in cooking and I would love to learn more about Oregano. Being Greek, we put oregano on everything, but I would really like to know more about its health benefits.

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  83. Jennifer Price says

    June 17, 2011 at 8:18 am

    I’m just learning more about herbs.
    I subscribed to your newsletter through email.
    Thank you!

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  84. LyndaB says

    June 18, 2011 at 9:27 am

    This couldn’t be more timely for me – I’ve been looking a lot into herbals for their health benefits lately. I’d like to know more about ginger.. it seems to be extremely versatile.

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    June 18, 2011 at 9:29 am

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    June 18, 2011 at 9:34 am

    I like ALBOSII on Facebook and posted a link to this giveaway on my wall. 🙂

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    June 18, 2011 at 9:35 am

    I like Living Awareness Inst. on FB.

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  89. Chara Shopp says

    June 27, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    I would like to learn what to do with the varieties of mint I have around… 🙂 I would also like to make better use of my fennel for eating. I love the medicinal herbs- always been fascinated with them and would like to make better use of them as well…

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    June 27, 2011 at 4:43 pm

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    June 27, 2011 at 4:44 pm

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  92. Donielle says

    June 27, 2011 at 6:11 pm

    Basil- because I use it all the time in the kitchen! The book sounds great!!

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  93. Becky @ Our Peaceful Home says

    June 27, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Which one? How can I decide? Dandelion root, red clover, maybe plantin and yarrow. This would be awesome to win!

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  94. Becky @ Our Peaceful Home says

    June 27, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    I liked A little bit of Spain in Iowa and shared it on my facebook wall. http://www.facebook.com/ourpeacefulhome

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    June 27, 2011 at 6:46 pm

    I follow you, and I’ve tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/beckyjwebb/statuses/85494105270009857

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  98. Katie says

    June 27, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    I’m a fan on facebook and posted about the giveaway

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  99. Katie says

    June 27, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    I would like to learn more about anise seeds. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!

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    June 27, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    I follow you on twitter and tweeted about the giveaway

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  102. Jessica B. says

    June 27, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    I would like to learn about all of the herbs! However, for the sake of the contest, let’s say fennel (as I’m growing some this year and don’t really know what to do with it!) 😉

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  103. Laurie says

    June 27, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    I’d like to learn what to do with the rosemary I’ve got growing in the kitchen.

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    June 27, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    I’m a fan on FB of Spain in Iowa.

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  105. Laurie says

    June 27, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    I liked the Living Awareness Institute and shared the giveaway on my wall.

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    June 27, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    I follow you on twitter and tweeted about the giveaway.

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