Enter lavender. Whether you’re inhaling its soothing aromas via essential oils, tasting it paired with strawberries in a slightly sweet fruit tart, rubbing the flowers between your fingers to smell its ever-so-faint perfume, or drying it out to put on display, lavender is calming, soothing, and emotionally uplifting.

My favorite way to make salads is in layers. Always have a green base, a protein (vegan or non-vegan, assume organic/grass-fed), a fat, more veggies/fruit to round it out, and fresh herbs to top it off. I usually make an apple cider vinaigrette to finish it off.