If you look up herbs on the internet you are going to find all kinds of articles on how to grow them, useful information for different agricultural areas and many invitations to buy  consumer herbal products.   That is the 21st century way of doing things.

However tucked into some of these herbs are amazing stories that don’t get told. And I think that affects our real appreciation of the invaluable bounty that nature provides us with.

So lets step away from today’s latest technological gizmo and spend a few minutes back in history.   This is a story which will make you look at the humble lemon grass herb with whole new eyes. We are going to step back a few centuries to southern Asia.  Let’s go there.

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