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Whole-plant herbal kitchen staples and educational workshops for natural resilience in our modern chemical world. Greater Boston area

10/29/2026

Whether it’s time to nourish, unwind, recover, or rest, there’s a tea waiting for you at Beckett’s Blends. Online ordering now available at Beckettsblends.com!

08/06/2026

🚨🚨NEW PRODUCT DROP🚨🚨
You can now order your very own Tonic Herbal Cooking Guide at beckettsblends.com

Don’t just cook with herbs like onion, parsley, or shiitake for their flavor - unlock their medicinal power! Historically, I’ve offered this poster exclusively to workshop attendees - until now.

This is the essential kitchen guide to best extract delicious tonic herbs into your own recipes to promote wellness and resilience in all you cook for. Whether you are just dipping your toes into the very basic principles of culinary plant medicine, or supporting an ongoing endeavor, this kitchen guide helps by clearly visualizing the framework of how to both select and prepare tasty medicinal herbs.

Head over to beckettsblends.com to learn more! Link in the bio.

08/05/2026

When I herb something, I herb it real hard.

Yes, herbs can be bitter, but they can also be bright, spicy, refreshing, pungent, vegetal, savory, sweet, and so much more. Herbs are packed with flavor, and the phytochemicals responsible for that flavor just so happen to also be what makes them medicinal, (and often what gives them their color!)

The therapeutic power of some herbs are wonderfully extracted with heat and water, while fresh eating is best for others. Parsley, dill, garlic and chives are examples of those with heat-sensitive compounds that are best eaten as fresh as possible. In fact, garlic scapes and chives are part of the allium family, which means much of their anti-microbial and cardiovascular supporting value is only created when the plant material is crushed and allowed to rest for 10+ minutes so a chemical reaction with oxygen can occur. After that, it’s best eaten fresh or very lightly cooked.

This tofu chickpea salad has the immune and heart-supporting medicine of both fresh rested alliums AND rested alliums infused into vinegar (fire c***r!) - a double whammy!

Check out our store for culinary herbalism posters to guide you in making your cooking more medicinal, and follow along for more tips 😜🍀

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07/22/2026

Let’s make a skullcap tincture!

American Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora) is one of the herbs I recommend the most to people for anxiety, especially the kind that comes with that bodily tension, irritability and sleep trouble. The baicalin and scutellarin compounds in the plant modulate GABA receptors, promoting calmness and neuroprotection. As a parent of two straight up gremlins, it’s a wonderful nervine that soothes my frayed nerves!

Watch for tips on making your own tincture (with skullcap or any other herb)!

07/20/2026

My dream of a dedicated home apothecary has come to fruition! We finally have the perfect space in our new home for all our family’s plant medicine, and I couldn’t be more grateful.

Looking to organize your own apothecary space? Here’s how I thought about storage:

Finished Tinctures:
- Easily accessible, thin shelves in a dark cool place for dropper bottles of tinctures, glycerines, bitters, etc. This is your day-to-day store
- Less accessible bulk storage for larger jars of finished tinctures, to refill dropper bottles (also a dark cool place)

Dried Herbs:
- Ample shelves in a dark cool place, spaced just enough for quart jars, to allow alphabetical organization of labeled dried herbs. Multiple jars of the same herb are lined up backwards with the oldest in front (FIFO)
- Deep drawers to contain the more unruly large bulk herb bags

Finished Vinegars and Salves:
- Dedicate a place in a fridge for storing finished infused vinegars, oils, and salves. This will keep them potent and microbial growth-free for significantly longer!

In-Progress Medicine:
- Dedicate an easily accessible, dark cool space for jars of whatever you’re currently infusing. Make it easy enough to get to so there are no barrier to the daily-weekly shaking they need!

Bulk Menstruums
- these are all your solvents - vinegar, vodka, oil, honey, glycerine, distilled water, etc. dedicate a space for these so you can take advantage of bulk buying opportunities

Empties
- the jars never stop coming, so dedicate a space for empties. If necessary create a clear division between sanitized and unsanitized

What other apothecary organization tips do you have?

07/20/2026

Oodles of farm fresh tomatoes/basil and a Spanish World Cup victory can only mean one thing: Gazpacho! I whipped together this almost full blender of tomatoes with a slice of bread, half a cucumber, fresh basil, turmeric kraut (for some acidity, salt, and pre/probiotics), a clove of tested diced garlic, splash of honey, and S&P to taste. While this classic Spanish summer dish is absolutely gorgeous, I’m a little mad these fancy glasses from my grandmother might be stealing the show…

Now the question… how much to blend?!

How do you like your gazpacho this summer?

07/07/2026

Have you heard of einkorn wheat?

This delicious meatball and pasta dinner is a wonderful way to celebrate the beauty of einkhorn, the world’s oldest cultivated wheat. It has never been hybridized or altered by modern farming, which means:

Easier Digestion: Modern wheat has 42 chromosomes, but einkorn only has 14. This gives it a simpler gluten structure that is much easier for many people to digest.

High Nutrition: It is packed with protein, healthy fats, and powerful antioxidants (like lutein) that reduce inflammation.

Low Glycemic Index: It breaks down slower in your body. This helps prevent sudden blood sugar spikes.

As these meatballs are made with whole wheat einkhorn flour, shiitake and lion’s mane mushrooms, and tempeh, they are jam-packed with protein, beta-glucans, and various compounds that support cognitive, gut, cardio-metabilic, and immune health. And combined with fennel, this unique flavor and texture combination is superfood alternative to your traditional meatball.

Check out our blog in the bio for the full recipe!

If you’ve heard of it before, what have you made with einkhorn? I got my pasta and flour from jovial and it was DELICIOUS.

07/02/2026

And the first meal on the new Blackstone Products griddle is…

Seared purple cabbage, halloumi, onion, watermelon radish, watermelon, and fresh peas! Served over rice with a passionfruit shallot BBQ sauce 🤤

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06/26/2026

Cool your summer off with this delicious NA Tulsi sangria! This herbal tea blend of hydrating summer tonics is a tasty, fun, and functional beverage to both wow and nourish your summer guests. Sweetened only with apples and goji berries, it’s also naturally sweet with no added sugar. Watch for the full recipe!

06/22/2026

Many of you have asked for the recipe of that creamy blue-green matcha I made recently, and here it is!

The adaptogenic mood support of maca root, immunomodulation and antioxidants of elderberry + spirulina, and the “calm alertness” effect of matcha makes this a tasty tonic to help you through times of stress when you’re finding that coffee is too harsh on your system.

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