Over at Music City Bloggers, they’re having a discussion about using fresh thyme in your cooking. Claudia says "dried herbs kinda suck." While I’m not a dried herb hater, I will say they are awfully expensive. Buying fresh at the store is costly as well.

What’s a broke person to do? Grow your own, of course. Here’s a good article with a lot of tips on growing your herbs indoors. And of course, you can always grow herbs outdoors in containers if you don’t have the space to plant outside or enough light to grow your herbs inside.