Two women, one cell

Jutta of Sponheim was enclosed at the monastery of Disibodenberg in 1112. She took a child with her — Hildegard, eight years old. Jutta taught her to read, to sing the psalms, and to keep a garden. Hildegard outlived her by forty-two years and wrote down everything she knew about plants.

I named this after both of them because the interesting part isn't the visions. It's that one woman taught another woman what grew where, and it survived. That's what a market table is, on a smaller scale.

I grow the sage, the lemon balm and most of the mint in Austin. The rest I buy from growers I've met. Everything is blended in small batches, labelled by hand, and dated — if a jar has been sitting more than a season I won't sell it to you.