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Sat, Apr 12, 2008

Herbs Online and Off

Posted at 6:16 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

After Farmers' Market I stopped at a Walgreen's, the only local place I have found the brand of St. John's Wort I trust. I was able to get a small bottle, but there was a sign on the shelf saying 'last chance'. I checked with the pharmacist, and they are stopping carrying NatureMade St. John's Wort: "but you can bring the bottle back in and special order it".

Hah.

I might be willing to make a special trip to a store I don't usually patronize to pick up something they have in stock. But in this century, I don't need to make two special trips to a store to get something they don't even carry.

Google is our friend.

Amazon came up as the first hit when I did a search for "NatureMade St. John's Wort" and their prices and available quantities looked good. So I ordered the herbs. And a manga issue I had missed. And a package of DVDs I wanted (for much less than they would have cost off the shelf at Best Buy: Amazon was having a sale). This is as much fun as the time I bought freeweights, clothes, bread and bananas at SuperTarget...

Farmers' Market itself was cold and windy. And we didn't have much to sell because we sold so much last week and the plants have spent the past week shivering instead of growing. We sold out of greens early, then sort of limped along selling garlic and onions and dried chiles from last season, and herbs. Dill, dried catnip, and dried epazote.

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