I have 2 ideas to float by you.
If you are serious about eating as much as you can from your soil, I'd make sure what plants need for health nutritionally, a COMPLETE soil test, be done. I've lived through what happens when you eat unhealthy plants, as did Steve Solomon of The Intelligent Gardener.
Have Melissa make up index cards of each of the herbs you plant with full name, common names, plant type (annual, perennial, etc), soil needs, water needs, cultivation needs, medicinal properties, culinary properties, misc properties, and most of all, possible TOXIC properties.
I did this when my son was 2 and my sister planted 125 herbs at my house. It gave me a INSTANT reference for each plant and insured I knew where to find the info quickly. She did that in 1992 and those cards have been in constant use, sometimes updated (esp when I was doing the New Herb garden posts) since then.
I did it for flowers, veggies, and herbs.
YES! Thank you! I had meant to get a soil test with my Christmas money but I had a catastrophe when my browser did an update and erased about 45 tabs that I keep open to remember things. The Logan Labs tab was one that was lost, so I appreciate the reminder. I think I've got just enough money left to get the test.
That's a good idea with the cards. We'll work on that too, it'll be really helpful :)