Affordable Home Additions that Rejuvenate Your Quality of Life: Herbs!

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Images Credit: Microsoft Office Clipart: Plants + Bread eggs and herbs + Herb gardens
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"Oh, better, no doubt, is a dinner of herbs, When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs, And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life, Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten with strife"
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, British politician, poet, critic and prolific novelist, 1803-1873. Source: thinkexist.com

People’s use of wild herbs for food and medicine predates written history. Since then, philosophers, theologians, healers, magi, cooks, beauticians, authors and poets have written about the virtues of these precious plants.

With curative powers and cosmetic uses to rejuvenating aromas and delightful flavours, herbs offer a natural way to rejuvenate our quality of life. But how simple, easy, or affordable is it to make such an addition?

It’s not too much of a challenge to add a little herb box to your home on a windowsill in your kitchen. If you know your herbs and are a bit of a green thumb, that is. If you are a complete novice when it comes to edible plants, you’ll be facing a bit of a learning curve. A small herb box is affordable and a pretty easy upgrade for your kitchen.

But what happens if you are a real gourmand living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)? With the growing season so short, backyard gardens only get you so far. You can infuse oils and preserve herbs, of course, but there is no substitute for fresh. But how big an indoor herb garden can you conceivably have, even in a high-end kitchen?

You can build a greenhouse in your garden (if you get the permits for it), and trudge through the snow (or freezing rain, if this year is indicative of Toronto winters to come). Is there a better way to make the herbal addition?

Wo-Built is about to introduce the most exciting development in quality home renovations to hit affordable home additions for years: Space. Living. We call it Peapod. Affordable home additions and back extensions which combine real living space with green technologies and organic food, built into a self-sustaining custom design.

Come and visit Wo-Built at the National Home Show and Canada Blooms, from March 16th to the 25th in the Green Living Toronto pavilion. Bite into a fresh, green, affordable addition to your home and rejuvenate your quality of life with all the herbs you could ever hope for (and so much more).

Peapod: affordable new home additions blooming with fresh ideas like herbs. Rejuvenate your quality of life.


Attila Lendvai
VP of Strategic Development
Wo-Built Inc. - Innovative Design and Build

You can also find helpful information at the following links:

wobuilt.com/blog: East York Mirror: Wo-Built Home Builder with New Affordable Initiative
wobuilt.com/blog: A Second Storey Addition - New Construction Approach
wobuilt.com/blog: Construction Statistics and Economic Indicators: Signs for Future Projects
wobuilt.com/blog: Adding Value to Your House – How About Adding Value to Your Life?!
wobuilt.com/blog: An Addition = A Home that’s more than just the Sum of its Parts