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Salinas, Calif. - November 13, 2009 - As the holidays come closer, we all look forward to our favorite homemade meals. As we focus more on being green and chemical free in both our lifestyles and eating habits, it's important to look for simple ways to incorporate these principles into the holiday celebrations. To do so, Rocket Farms suggests using living herbs to season your feasts.

Living herbs offer many physical and environmental benefits. Unlike herbs sold in plastic clam shell containers, there are no plastic shells to throw into the dumpsters, and nothing goes to waste. Clam shell herbs also contain chemicals to help preserve them until used in your food. Dried herbs are the other alternative, but they are not as flavorful or colorful as live herbs and any nutrition that was there is gone. Think about it- would you ever want to eat pesto made of dried herbs or basil that had sat in plastic and been covered with chemicals?

Living herbs offer the freshest way to cook, contain no chemicals, do not litter, and can be used again and again. Many steer clear of living herbs because they do not understand how they are used, both in growing and cooking.

Once you buy your herb plant, treat it like any other house plant or put it on your patio. It needs sun and water when it starts to get dry. Herb plants do not need to be planted in the ground. When you need some basil, rosemary, thyme or whatever herbs you are growing, just pinch off the stems starting at the top of the plant.

For those delicious family recipes, the only difference in cooking when using fresh herbs in place of dried herbs is that you double the amount. So if a recipe calls for one tablespoon of dried herbs you would use two tablespoons of fresh herbs. This difference is because dried herbs are more compact. With all the benefits of using living herbs this holiday season, there's no reason not to.

A variety of Rocket Farms' living organic herbs and vegetables can be found in grocery stores such as Trader Joes and Costco throughout the Western United States. The company's newest state-of-the-art facility consists of 40 acres of 100% USDA certified organic production. Not content to simply grow organic, Rocket Farms has spent considerable time and resources incorporating a vigorous food safety program to our production. This gives our customers an added level of confidence that everything we grow is up to the highest possible standards.

For more information about Rocket Farms please call 1-(877) 237-7575 or visit www.RocketFarms.com.

### About Rocket Farms
Rocket Farms is a California nursery company with over 25 years of history in the Salinas Valley and California. Rocket Farms is the fifth largest greenhouse grower in the country with over 5.5 million square feet of greenhouse space, distributed over nine growing facilities throughout California. In addition to being one of the largest poinsettia and orchid growers in the country, Rocket Farms grows Living Organic Herbs and vegetables, Mums, Calla Lilies and other cut and potted specialty crops. Rocket Farms travels the globe to keep pace with rapidly changing consumer trends, design, and technological innovations. As part of the company's dedication to its Code of Sustainability and finding solutions for long-term sustainable markets, Rocket Farms has pioneered the shipping of orchids by ocean container and is leading the way in organic production and food safety protocol.