25+ Perfect Herbal Gifts for Herbalism Fans

Last Updated on November 5, 2024

Looking for some ingenious herbal gifts for the herb lover in your life? Here are more than 25 great herbalism gift ideas to please everyone from the novice to the serious herbalist.

Ask anyone interested in herbs what they’d like to get as a holiday gift, and you’ll almost certainly get the answer, herbal gear!

Whether you’re looking for a simple herb garden kit for someone without a garden or serious tools for the herbalist, there’s no shortage of wonderful herbal gifts to choose from.

Check out the many delightful options for gifts for herbalists and other herb-loving peeps on your list.

If you need more inspiration, we have loads more gift ideas in our many gift guides. From fantastic gardening books or foraging guides to homemade gifts, you’ll find so many options to delight folks on your list!

TOP HERBAL GIFTS

1. HERB GROWING GEAR

Someone who hasn’t done much herb gardening will appreciate a kit with everything they need to grow herbs indoors. This indoor herb garden starter kit has everything they need to get started.

Or consider this herb kit for upcycling wine bottles into a gorgeous windowsill herb garden.

A hanging shelf planter is a brilliant solution for getting plentiful herbs near a sunny window.

Urban Leaf has a variety of cool indoor grow kits to choose from.

This Herbal Tea Garden has 4 of the most popular herbs to grow for delicious, medicinal teas. Lemon balm is a top herb for sleep, and blends beautifully with soothing chamomile and lavender. Mint is a wonderful cooling herb that’s also a top choice for digestive issues.

This thoughtful tea garden kit includes a grow kit and seeds for growing top medicinal herbs tulsi, echinacea, chamomile, thyme, and peppermint, along with growing instructions, garden markers, and labeled tins for storing dried herbs.

Find some additional options here and here.

If someone doesn’t have a good sunny spot for growing indoors, a setup that incorporates a grow light lets them grow herbs just about anywhere they like.

More experienced herb growers will love gifts that help them upgrade their medicinal herb garden, like these gorgeous Herb Markers.

You can also find herb markers made of other materials, like these pretty porcelain markers or these fun upcycled vintage spoons. You can specify which herbs you’d like.

This medicinal herb survival garden contains seeds for 40 herbs, targeting pretty much any malady you can think of.

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Purchased dried herbs also make great gifts. You can get large quantities of herbs they’re likely to use a lot of, like calendula, chamomile, elderberry, or lavender or smaller quantities of herbs you think they use less, perhaps hawthorn berries or spilanthes.

For the beginning herbalist, a sampler filled with a selection of herbs will help them stock their own herbal apothecary. You can get a larger selection for more advanced herbal folk.

Mountain Rose Herbs is the best place to find just about every herb an herbalist might want.

2. HERBAL RESOURCES

Herbalists are always looking to expand their plant knowledge. Whether it’s a physical book or an e-course, there are so many fantastic options to give as herbal gifts to herbalists of all levels, from novice to advanced.

Check out some of the best herbalism books to consider for an herbal reference library. Longtime herbalists will love adding to their collection, and beginners will appreciate having foundational references at the ready.

A gift certificate to one of the many incredible courses from the Herbal Academy makes the perfect gift for herbal folks of all levels. The recipient can choose according to their own interests and skill level, whether that’s an introductory or advanced course, a foraging course, a course on mushrooms, or their new class on tincture-making.

They even have a pretty downloadable gift certificate that you can print or send electronically. You can choose a dollar amount or select a specific class to include on the certificate. Click on the image below to find out more.

3. HERBAL GIFTS: TEA GEAR

Herbalists tend to be busy folks, and you might have noticed someone brewing their favorite herbal concoctions in old mason jars with rusty lids and straining them with dented kitchen strainers.

A good tea pot with a built in straining basket will elevate their herbal tea time! Some suggestions below. For more tea-related gift ideas, be sure to check out these 30+ gifts for tea lovers.

I love my quart-size ceramic teapot (like this one), perfect for brewing larger quantities of herbal tea. Add an attractive tea strainer or infuser.

For something more unique, consider a handmade ceramic teapot from Etsy or a traditional Japanese cast iron teapot, which will last forever.

A stylish stainless steel French press will make steeping and straining herbs a snap.

Or consider a glass tea pot with flowering tea leaves, which lets you watch as herbs infuse.

Cups with built-in infusers make brewing up a single cup of herbal tea a snap. Loads more options to consider here.

They can take their herbal brews on the go with a travel mug with infuser. This travel mug with a built-in French press is another option.

4. HERBAL SWAG & TOOLS

Help your herb-lover show off their love of plant medicine with these fabulous (and useful!) herb-themed gifts.

This lovely tote bag comes printed with a handy plant identification key.

Herbal peeps of all stripes will appreciate these fun t-shirts featuring plant motifs.

Or gift a sweatshirt with herbs to keep them cozy when they curl up with a cup of herbal tea after foraging in fall or winter.

These pretty labels from Herbal Academy add flair to all those lovely homemade medicines.

A beautiful herbal-themed apron is the perfect way to cover up when you cook.

The Herbal Academy shop also has tons of useful and beautiful items like plant journals, recipe books, tea towels and lots more.

5. HERBAL GIFTS: PRESERVATION TOOLS

While fresh herbs are lovely when you can get them, being able to preserve herbs is critical to using herbs outside the growing season. Tools for drying and tincturing herbs and creating healing herbal salves make wonderful gifts for herbalists at all levels.

However they’re using herbs, an herb stripper or herb scissors set will come in handy.

Etsy has a number of handmade herb strippers strippers, including some clever ones with a bowl to catch leaves, like this one or this one.

For drying herbs:

I highly recommend a collapsible drying screen. I love that it has tons of space for laying out the many different herbs I gather each season but folds up into a small circle that I can tuck away out of season.

I’ve used it to dry huge quantities of foraged Canadian wood nettle, plantain, linden flowers, goldenrod, elderflowers, birch leaves, and so much more.

Some nice jars with good seals would be great for storing the herbs they dry. For smaller amounts, this set with chalkboard labels would be perfect.

An herb grinder is another useful herbal tool. Here are a bunch of other options to consider.

Tincture-making supplies:

Packaged together with some dry herbs, a 12-pack of amber bottles with funnels and some attractive labels sets up your herbal lover for a fully-stocked apothecary. If you want to go the extra mile, add a bottle of organic vodka. (Or vinegar or glycerin if that’s more their speed.)

Salve-making supplies:

Everything someone would need to make their own healing salves would make an excellent herbal gift.

Fill a melting pan you can use in place of a double boiler with beeswax pellets and a set of tins or pretty glass jars. You could include some organic almond oil or other carrier oil as well.

They would be great paired with The Nerdy Farm Wife’s homemade skincare book or another book on DIY skin products.

I hope some of these ideas were helpful! If you have other suggestions for great herbal gifts, please leave a comment and I’ll look into adding them.

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