smoots_flavor_farm

smoots_flavor_farm Growing and preserving flavor on the Palouse. Specializing in culinary and tea herbs. 🌿

Taking pre-orders and custom orders for garlic braids. Find our braids to Moscow Farmers Market starting in September. H...
08/24/2026

Taking pre-orders and custom orders for garlic braids. Find our braids to Moscow Farmers Market starting in September.
Happy to make custom length, bulb count, colors to match your kitchen's garlic culture and decor.

A little post Lentil Festival / post wildfire flower power boost. Making garlic braids today. What a weekend...Grateful ...
08/24/2026

A little post Lentil Festival / post wildfire flower power boost. Making garlic braids today. What a weekend...
Grateful for so much today. Y'all showed up at Lentil Fest. What a great event for our first market of the fall season. It's always encouraging to feel the enthusiasm for local flavor. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth!
And we are still in awe of the bravery, diligence and quick response from our farmers, neighbors and firefighters yesterday. Grateful for everyone's time, equipment and sweat!

08/23/2026

Thank you to all the farmers and firefighters working to put this fire out.

✨️ New product alert! ✨️ And we're debuting these beauties THIS Saturday at the National Lentil Festival !Introducing ou...
08/19/2026

✨️ New product alert! ✨️ And we're debuting these beauties THIS Saturday at the National Lentil Festival !
Introducing our Kid Friendly Lentil Taco Filling and our Mediterranean Lentil Soup. Made with Palouse grown lentils and herbs.
These are Instant Pot and Crock Pot ready meal staples. No preservatives, no highly processed ingredients--just nutritious, locally grown goodness.
We will be adding more soup varieties as the fall progresses. You'll find those at our Moscow Farmers Market booth starting in September.
But for now, come on down and celebrate our region's agricultural treasures, our town's quirky love of legumes, and one of the best welcomes to fall on the Palouse. We'll be set up on Saturday at Reaney Park following the parade.
Hope to see you there!

08/10/2026

Next up in the dehydrator is tulsi basil or holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum).

Tulsi has a pungent clove-like aroma and a powerfully spiced ans lightly floral flavor.  It is often used as a tea herb. We feature in prominently in our Tulsi Lemon Green Tea-- a beneficial blend of enriching tulsi, soothing lemon balm and anti-inflammatory green tea.

Tulsi is a sacred plant in Hinduism often found in home courtyards.  An adaptogen, it is commonly used in Ayurvedic traditions for its ability to support the body's resilience to stress, offer mental clarity and foster well-being.

Did you know tulsi basil is also a culinary herb?  There are different varieties found around the world, predominantly in Southern Asia.  In Thailand, one tulsi variety known as "krapow" or "kaphrao" is the signature herb in the iconic stir fry pad krapow.

So many uses for this wonderful, sacred herb.

08/05/2026

🧄 Tis the season. 🧄

07/27/2026

Next up in the dryer is cinnamon basil--one of two basil varieties we use in our Hygge Tea (pronounced "hew-guh"). 🤗

Those gorgeous crimson upper leaves and flower stalks sit atop towers of fragrant leaves. Cinnamon basil is exceptionallly fragrant with notes of fruit and spice. Its flavor is unequivocally warming.

We use cinnamon basil exclusively in our winter seasonal Hygge Tea. Hygge Tea tastes like a warm hug on a chilly day or a being under blanket in front of a fireplace. The epitome of cozy. If you enjoy spiced cider or mulled wine in the winter, you will probably love our Hygge Tea!

Hard to think about these things in the height of summer, but as those first frosts appear in fall, we'll be glad we preserved this delightful variety when we did.

We grow a limited amount of the basils we put in our Hygge Tea. The dehydrator is in high demand in July and August. But it's one of my favorite teas. We'll offer it at our winter markets while our inventory lasts. 🩵🤍💙

07/20/2026

Next up in the dryer is the royal herb, basil. Its name stems from the Greek 'basilikon' meaning royal or kingly. One of the most popular and sought after herbs. It's also perhaps the most high maintenance herb to grow too.

Basil is a tender herb loaded with delicate flavor compounds. It is incredibly sensitive to cold temperatures and can be a finicky herb to grow. But it is always worth it.

Basil harvests are richly aromatic and their complex flavors dry very well in our dehydrator, albeit quite slowly.

We grow about 10 different varieties of basil, but this classic Genovese basil goes into a number of our seasonings and finishing salts. It's the star in our Italian and Greek Seasonings as well as our Pizza Finishing Salt.

This basil will be ready in about a week. We will get several harvests in a season, which is good because demand is always high!

It's also popular among pollinators too, like this Gray Hairstreak butterfly.

07/16/2026

Next up in the dehydrator is summer savory. It is peppery, pungent and earthy. The drying room smells soooo good!

This wonderful and entirely under appreciated annual herb goes with any summer vegetable, like green beans, summer squash, peppers, tomatoes and eggplants. Not to be confused with its perennial cousin, winter savory, which as you might guess, goes well with winter vegetables, like root veggies and winter storage squash.

Summer savory is also excellent with meats in marinades and rubs. Its flavor is wonderful paired with wild game, poultry and pork.

Commonly found in many European seasonings, we use summer savory in our Herbes de Provence blend and our Wild Finishing Salt.

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