Actually, I have grown some chocolate mint. A friend gave us a snippet of one of their plants and it just took off. Mint grows like a weed! It's everywhere now.

I've never fancied mint, but if it really grows so much, maybe you could try selling some of it, and eating the surplus.

I use a ton of basil, so I grow that myself. I also have some parsley.

When I was a kid, I grew parsley for the monarch butterflies to munch on as caterpillers. They love it. I'm always amazed with those creatures. For something that looks like a bug, they know how to navigate, get across huge bodies of water, and deal with the wind.

Back to the question though, I used to grow my own herbs, but can't do it where I live now as it's too dry.

My father always had a garden and would grow mint, thyme, oregano, tomatos, and cukes. Mint it one of those plants that makes you feel good when gardening because it just grows. Thyme is pretty forgiving too.

I don't have time to garden, but I love fresh herbs. They are awful costly at the grocer. I might need to try my hand a a couple herbs next spring and see how I do as a gardener.