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Growing Dog-Healthy Herbs

Even a very small organic garden can benefit you and your dog.

by Randy Kidd, DVM, PhD

There are many easy-to-grow herbs that are also good medicine for dogs (and their people).

Digging, rolling, and lying in healthy organic soil can be good for dogs’ skin – and soul.

But first, a disclaimer: When I say “easy to grow,” in my case I mean that they are easy for my wife, Sue, to grow. Sue is the family gardener; I help pick out the good-medicine herbs from the seed catalogues, and it is my strong back that does the autumn tilling and the forking of donkey dung over the beds. (I actually do some of the day-to-day watering and weeding throughout the summer, but so far, I’ve been able to claim a lingering football injury that lets me avoid the…


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