Profits from Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Book Review
Profits from Your Backyard Herb Garden, by Lee Sturdivant, is a simple and straightforward business guide for anyone who likes working with plants and would like to earn a living or at least a side income from it.
Although the book includes advice on growing different kinds of herbs, its main focus is on marketing the products of one’s herb garden. This includes sage (sorry!) advice on packaging and labeling, setting prices, and approaching the various kinds of potential customers, such as grocery stores and restaurants. Other advice ranges from bookkeeping to complying with local laws and licensing requirements.
Without a doubt, the most valuable part of the book is its suggestions as to which particular herbs to grow and market. From obviously hard-gained personal experience, the author is in an excellent position to advise novices as to which herbs are in great demand and which ones would be a waste of time to try to sell. Sturdivant pares the “essential” list down to 12, starting with basil: “If you only have room for one herb – make it basil,” she writes. The others are dill, French tarragon, mint, oregano, sweet marjoram, French sorrel, rosemary, chives, parsley, thyme and sage.
Profits from Your Backyard Herb Garden also includes some recipes for using the different herbs, and helpful photographs and line drawings of herbs, as well as illustrations of labels and packages as used in this business.
Sturdivant readily cautions that the herb business is not a quick route to becoming a millionaire. But as an enjoyable way to make a hundred or, potentially, several hundred dollars a week, it could easily prove to be the road to business success for quite a few aspiring garden entrepreneurs.
Profits from Your Backyard Herb Garden is published by San Juan Naturals of Friday Harbor, Washington; ISBN # 0-9621635-0-3.
H. Tim Sevets is books editor for the Solid Gold Info Writers Consortium, where he specializes in objective reviews of the top money-making reports sold over the Web. Recently, he reviewed an e-book that claims to show how to make money by tearing up old books and magazines and selling them on eBay. Read his opinion at http://www.solid-gold.info/tear-up-old-books-sell-ebay.html.
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