Tea Library

The Heritage Garden harvests leaves, flowers, and roots from our pesticide-free gardens. The plants we harvest all have important medicinal properties and cultural significance. We dry the plants on our drying rack, then collect them in labeled jars to store in our beautiful tea library. When the time comes to make tea, we pull from various jars to create custom, garden-grown tea bags.

WHAT IS A tea LIBRARY?

Our tea library was inspired by our seed library and similarly they hold plants we have harvested from the gardens. We hired a local artist, Chau Tran, to build our tea library in collaboration with the intern’s sketches of what they wanted the tea library to look like.
The tea library is showcased at our Seed Swap, Harvest Festival, events with the CCUSC, and community events. We have various herbs such as Lemon Balm, Yarrow, Marigolds, Raspberry leaf, Mullein, Lemon Grass, Marshmallow Root, Cala-mint, Sage, and so much more.

Tea information

Oregano

Marigold

Calamint

Goldenrod

Marshmallow

Motherwort

Mullein

Raspberry

Rue

Sage

Cornsilk

Beebalm

Mugwort

Anise Hyssop

Lemon Balm

Lemon Grass

Spearmint

Yarrow

Tea Resources

Tea Catalog — Tea Catalog

Check out what teas we have in stock!

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Additional Seed Information

Marigold Illustration (Copy)

Marigold growing information (Copy)

Coneflower Illustration (Copy)

Coneflower growing information (Copy)

Oregano Illustration (Copy)

Oregano growing information (Copy)

Sweet Basil Illustration (Copy)

Sweet Basil growing information (Copy)

Dill Illustration (Copy)

Dill growing information (Copy)

Yarrow Achillea Illustration (Copy)

Yarrow Achillea growing information (Copy)

Catnip Illustration (Copy)

Catnip growing information (Copy)

Culinary Sage Illustration (Copy)

Culinary Sage growing information (Copy)

Italian Parsley Illustration (Copy)

Italian Parsley growing information (Copy)

Rue Illustration (Copy)

Rue growing information (Copy)

Chamomile Illustration (Copy)

Chamomile growing information (Copy)

If you have any questions about the Tea library or are interested in checking out some teas, please email us at heritagegarden.uic@gmail.com!