Well I finally found a space for making life a -little- less interesting, by purchasing a great little toolkit from http://www.learningherbs.com/. This site is just amazing. They have a very holistic agenda to just get the wisdom of herbal medicine out there in the world again.
Here is the kit I purchased here: http://www.learningherbs.com/herbal_kit.html
I will be digging into it in the next couple of weeks, in hopes of bringing some wonderful gifts to my in-laws in Norway when we travel there at the end of this month. I'll be sure to post progress, notes, and of course pictures of my experiments!
Stay tuned!