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A Green Movement: A History of Herb

For thousands of years, humans have used herbs. Herbs have always been used in the following ways in cooking to flavor food, as disinfectants, to protect us against germs, to make us smell nice, as medicines to heal us when we are sick, etc. Today we still use herbs for the same purposes. Look in your kitchen cupboard, you may find small jars or pots of herbs.  You probably add them to food to give extra flavoring.  Look at the labels and make a list of the herbs in your kitchen. Recipe books are full of suggestions about adding herbs when cooking.

The herbs we use today come from many parts of the world. We have learnt about how to use herbs from people of past times. We know that people of all ages have used herbs because they wrote about what they learnt.

                                                            -Colt