To celebrate the launch of our new Essentials program, we’re giving away Vintage Remedies gift certificates to help you get started! We’ll have 4 tiers of winners; the grand prize is a $125 gift certificate. Next comes a $75 gift certificate, a $50 gift certificate and 5 runner ups will win a free copy of The Kitchen Herbal. If you’re one of the winners and we’re still registering the first 25 educators, you can combine that discount with the gift certificate! (See the note below about using the gift certificate post registration.)

Here’s how to enter: Leave a comment below. You can earn additional comments by liking our new Vintage Remedies Essentials facebook page, following our new @VREssentials account on twitter, signing up for the new Essentials newsletter and sharing the news with your friends via facebook, twitter or your blog. So, you can earn up to 7 entries on your own, and you can have friends enter for you as well – just like last time. Here’s the only catch: Make sure you like / follow / join / promote the NEW ESSENTIALS pages! We’ll be posting and sharing special wellness tips on these pages, just like we do with the regular Vintage Remedies School pages.

Also – an important reminder – you MUST post a separate comment for each action you take to receive the entry. We’ll draw the winners from the comment numbers, so each individual comment is another chance to win.

You have until midnight tomorrow (Wed) to enter. We’ll draw the winners Thursday morning. If you want to sign up for the educator program to be in the first 25 that save $100 but are also entering the contest, please note: we can apply any gift certificates from this contest to a registration that takes place today or tomorrow; if you win, you’ll be refunded the gift certificate amount Thursday at your request. (Or, you can save it for later use towards class supplies or Vintage Remedies products; your choice!) We’ve already signed up several educators, so don’t delay!

UPDATE: The contest is now closed. Congrats to #53 Stacia Miller, our grand prize winner, #6 Dawn Williamson our $75 gift certificate winner and #134 our $50 gift certificate winner! Also, congrats to #s 118, 16, 56, 9 and 131 for their copies of The Kitchen Herbal! 

As you’ve seen on facebook and twitter, our simple little ebook has been revised, updated and expanded – and will be hitting the shelves March first. It’s available now for pre-order on Amazon.com but you can get your copy for FREE if you’re one of the first ten to answer our trivia question correctly. Then, we’ll draw ten more winner from the remaining entries. Yes, you read that right – there will be TWENTY winners today!

The contest will end at midnight tonight and we’ll post the next giveaway tomorrow, right after we post our BIG announcement! To keep it fair, all comments will be held in moderation until the contest is over. We’ll notify the first ten today and the other ten will hear from us tomorrow. (And we’ll post a list of comment #s here as well.)

So, on to the question: The original Kitchen Herbal ebook featured 12 herbs: Basil, Cilantro, Dill, Lavender, Mustard, Oregano, Parsley, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sage, Tarragon and Thyme. The printed edition now has 18 herbs – six new ones! These include: Bay, Chives, Cinnamon, Fennel and Ginger. What is the other new herb in the book?

Each comment can only only have ONE herb listed. You can post as many comments as you like. For clues about the herb, check out facebook and twitter pages. We’ll keep posting clues throughout the day.

UPDATE: Congratulations to our 10 randomly selected winners who chose the correct answer: Anise (or Star Anise)! If you won, either as one of the 1st 10 to guess correctly or as a randomly selected winner, you should have an e-mail in your inbox!

As (my version of) the old saying goes, if at first you don’t… win! The winner of yesterday’s giveaway has been posted, but there’s still two more chances to get a pre-release copy of Vintage Remedies for Kids shipped to your door in just a couple of weeks! Here’s your second chance…

For today’s giveaway, you’ll need to submit an entry telling us which herb is featured on page 216 of The Handbook of Vintage Remedies. If you don’t own a copy yet, don’t fret! (I like that word!) You can use the handy search inside of the book feature at Amazon.com to find the answer. To keep things fair, all comments on this post will be moderated and held until the contest is over. So, if you don’t see your reply show up, no worries! As long as you receive a confirmation page after entering the comment, we have it. All comments will be approved tomorrow morning and we’ll use the same random selection for the winner. Assuming the answer is correct, that person will win! If it’s not, we’ll start over with another random selection until we have a winner.

UPDATE: Congrats to #16, Elizabeth!