The question many of the home cookers pose is as to why Bay Laurel is a valuable plant to include in the herb garden. Bay Laurel leaves are also used as decorative and useful plants in the middle of cooking forums either fresh or dried to impart aromatic flavors to soups, stocks, sauces and stews. Homegrown gives you an opportunity to pick the freshest leaves and you also do not have to deal with all the additives present in packaged herbs. What was your method of storing or drying bay leaves on which you planned to use at a later date?