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Jar after jar of bulk herbs, sold by weight. Buy a pinch for one recipe or a pound for the pantry.
Sold by weight
Justamere's herb wall is shelf after shelf of labeled jars: culinary herbs for the kitchen and traditional herbs people have used for generations, all sold loose by the ounce. These are the bulk herbs Eastern Shore kitchens have quietly leaned on for decades.
Buying bulk means you choose the amount. A tablespoon of something for tonight's recipe. A refill for the jar at home. A generous bag of your everyday standby, fresher by the ounce than the little shakers at the supermarket, without the plastic.
The selection runs deep, and if you do not see what you need, ask. After 35 years the owner knows the wall by heart and can tell you exactly what the shop carries, what is coming, and what a good substitute might be.
Save yourself a trip across the Bay Bridge: call (410) 745-2227 and ask if your herb is on the wall today.
Why buy in bulk
Freshness you can smell. Herbs sold loose from a jar turn over constantly, and your nose will tell you the difference the moment a jar opens. The shaker that has been on a supermarket shelf since last year simply cannot compete.
You buy the amount you actually need. A recipe that calls for a tablespoon of something unusual should not cost you a whole jar you will never finish. Buy the tablespoon. And when it turns out you love it, come back and buy the pound.
The price per ounce is honest. Bulk cuts out the packaging and the branding, so more of what you pay goes to the herb itself. Regulars who refill their own jars know exactly how far that goes over a year of cooking.
Less to throw away. A paper bag instead of another plastic shaker. Refill the jars you already own and the cupboard stays tidy, too.
How a visit to the wall works. Bring a list or a curiosity, either is fine. The jars are labeled plainly, so browsing is easy, and the shop weighs out whatever you point to, from a pinch to a pantry restock, bagged and labeled to take home. When it comes to herbs by weight Easton has exactly one address like this.
The stock spans the kitchen shelf and the traditional side alike: cooking herbs and spices on one hand, and on the other the herbs people have kept in their cupboards for generations. The shop is glad to tell you what its customers reach for, and it jars its own blends as well, the same recipes behind the house teas one shelf over.
If you are driving any distance, call first: (410) 745-2227. A thirty-second phone call confirms your herb is on the wall today and saves the trip when it is not. And if you are already downtown, the wall is two minutes from the square, which is a dangerous thing to learn about a shop this easy to browse.
A pantry habit worth building. The regulars treat the wall like part of their kitchen. They keep a short list going on the fridge, swing by when it fills, and refill the same labeled jars year after year. Herbs stay fresher because they are bought in usable amounts, the spice drawer stops accumulating fossils, and cooking gets quietly better because the flavors are actually alive.
New to buying loose? Start with the three herbs you cook with most and replace them from the wall. The upgrade announces itself the first time you open the bag. From there the wall tends to sell itself, one curiosity at a time, the same way the tea shelf next to it does.
Cooks, gardeners, and the simply curious all end up here. Some come with a recipe that calls for something the supermarket has never heard of. Some come to rebuild a spice drawer properly after years of dusty shakers. Some just like reading jar labels in a shop that smells the way this one does. All of them get the same treatment: an honest answer, an exact weight, and a fair price for it. That formula has not changed in 35 years, and it is not going to. Come once with a list and you will understand why the second visit never needs one; the wall writes it for you. Bring a friend who cooks; they will owe you for the introduction.
The cooking shelf: everyday and hard-to-find culinary herbs, fresher by the ounce than anything in a shaker jar.
The herbs people have kept in their cupboards for generations, jarred and labeled so you can find exactly what you came for.
The shop's own labeled jars sit alongside the single herbs, blended recipes the store has jarred for its regulars for years.
9 N Harrison St, downtown Easton. The wall does the convincing.
