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Written by Meg Vandereedt
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Friday, 22 November 2013 19:49 |
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Greetings All,
November’s meeting; our annual “hands on” workshop is always a fun event. This year after numerous requests, we decided to re-visit making herbal vinegars. EHS will provide the bottles and vinegar, some fresh herbs and dried spices as well. We ask that our members go through your gardens and bring cutting of what is growing right now to add to this program. Most herbs are great for vinegar, from basil, parsley and thyme, to fresh lemongrass, ginger and hot peppers. The ideas are endless!
Next month is our Holiday Potluck Dinner. The date is the second Tuesday of December. Tuesday December 10th. Door will open at 6pm. We will be eating at or close to 7pm as possible, earlier then our usual meeting times. Please be patient with us as the 7pm “start” time to eat sometimes gets pushed back 15 minutes or so depending on members still coming in with food and getting the table ready. Please make note of these changes so you don’t miss the dinner!
This year we are adding a Holiday Herbal Bazaar to our Holiday Dinner meeting. The Board has been reaching out to various members who make herbal products for sale. We have asked these folks to come and set up a table with their herbal items. We will have soaps, lotions, massage oils and herbal bath
salts. Herbal dream pillows as well. Culinary blends, herbal oils and vinegars, gourmet sea salts, home-made jams and jelly. Please support our local herb folks; this is a great time to find special herbal gifts for your holiday gift giving.
See you at the meeting!
Mounts Fall Plant Sale: November 2-3 as reported by Ingrid Menz
Without you, the volunteers, that help us with the being there when we ask you, we could not move the plants from the tables to the customers. Perhaps you noted my absence, I still thought about you from all the way in the Atlantic Ocean cruising in gale force winds. I rather would have been with you behind the tables and selling the plants.
The volunteers that helped in my absence were: Brenda Skaggs, who filled my shoes and then some, a really big thank you. She did an awesome job working with the other volunteers – Donnie Brown, Kathleen Burford, Palm Chalker, KC Foster, Barbara Harrison, Karen Hutt, Marci Green, Christine Kocielski, Lee Laupus, Ruth Lynch, Barbara O’Reilly, Bernard Pages, Leslie Rigg, Linda Spillane, Heather Stewart, Meg Vandereedt , Mary Wickensheimer and my daughter, Chara Kuonen and her boyfriend, Chino.
Also, thank you, for the members and the board that brought food to our booth. However, I did hear that raccoons had a feast on Saturday night with the leftover sandwiches and whatever else they could find. That was the first time this ever happened to us. Well, next time, we will outsmart those critters. They will not do this to us again.
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Last Updated on Friday, 22 November 2013 20:01 |
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Written by Meg Vandereedt
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Thursday, 24 October 2013 16:15 |
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Greetings All,
This month we have a great meeting in store for us! A few of us from EHS were able to go to The Florida Herb Conference back in February, held in Deleon Springs near Daytona. While we were there all of us attended a lecture by Katie Haley. Once Katie started talking we all immediately looked at each other and mouthed “We need to get her for one of our meetings!.” Poor Katie, we all surrounded her afterwards with question after question… I am so happy she is coming to us this month, I believe everyone who attends will be as thrilled as we were.
Cosmic Flower Aromatherapy Inc. is Katie’s business, her talk is titled ‘the Top 10 Essential Oils for your medicine cabinet”, and I’m sure she will weave in tidbits about her travels sourcing the oils she carries as well!
It will be a busy week for EHS because a few days after our meeting will be The Mounts Botanical Garden Fall Plant Sale. And of course we will be there with the herb booth. We are still looking for a few more volunteers to help out over the weekend. We’ll have the sign-up sheet at the front desk at our meeting. Please come out and help us, it really is fun; the time seems to fly during these sales!
November will be our annual “Hands on Workshop.” The Board has been in discussion about this workshop for months, lots of ideas went back and forth, but one kept popping up. Herbal Vinegars, it’s been a long while since we made vinegars, so the decision was made to have some fun with vinegars again. EHS will provide the vinegar and jars. We ask our members to cut and bring some of your herbs and spices you are growing for this meeting to share. We will have fresh herbs and some dried herbs/spices at the meeting, but it’s always so much nicer to use fresh grown.
That’s it for now, see you at the meeting!
Enjoy,
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Written by Meg Vandereedt
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Thursday, 20 June 2013 22:43 |
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Greetings All,
This month’s speaker is going to be great! Merry Costanza from Fancy Leaf Caladiums knows her “stuff.” A long time Florida gal, Merry has been working and passionate about caladiums for years. What’s not to love about these beautiful plants? They are each a colorful rainbow packed into every leaf! Merry will give us all her tips on growing and caring, and have tubers for sale as well! Bernard Pages, our long time board member will be running this meeting, so looking forward to this one!
Our meeting last month, Herb of the Year Elder was a success! I received many phone calls the days after complimenting the board on such a good informative program. In this month’s newsletter we have added a couple of recipes from Marci Green; she went all out on cooking with elderberries! Some members were not able to get a booklet at the meeting since we ran out. I have it in a file on my computer. If you did not get a copy I will email you the file. Please put on the subject line Elder booklet from EHS, this way I will know you are not “spam”. My email is in the EHS Officers box of our newsletter.
A quick update on the herb garden here at Mounts. We are about 40% planted but now with the heat and rains of summer, our project is slowing down. Ingrid and Joel are still busy starting seeds and keeping baby transplants alive and hope to resume in the herb garden towards the end of summer. But for now if you are in the area please stop in for a visit, Ingrid has said the roses we’ve put back into the garden are just beautiful with blooms!
EHS takes a well deserved vacation in July and August and will resume in September with Farmer Jay speaking on Sustainability. I hope everyone has a great summer and some adventure as well, even better if its herb related! Please share your herbal happenings with us, we would like to put them in the newsletter for everyone to enjoy.
See you all at the meeting!
Enjoy,
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Written by Marci Green
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Thursday, 19 September 2013 23:03 |
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Hello my fellow Herb Enthusiasts. I hope you all have had a lovely summer. It’s time to welcome you back to our growing season. It’s time to ready our containers or beds and start our seeds. There is a lot to look forward to. The Fall Plant Sale (Nov. 2 & 3) will be here before we know it. There is a volunteer sign-up sheet on the entry table for us to claim our preferred time slot. We will be flavoring vinegars during the November meeting workshop and the board is working hard to make the coming season an enjoyable one.
We had Farmer John on the calendar for September, but he had scheduling conflicts. Luckily David McLean of Trinity Chuchside Garden was able to step in for us at short notice. Some of you will remember him from previous years and our Fort Lauderdale field trip to tour the garden and have lunch at the Annex, his wife’s restaurant adjacent to the garden.
This month he will be speaking about, “Edible and/or Useful Weirdo’s of the Plant World.” It will be about a mix of edible, useful weird and unusual plants he has growing in his nursery. (He’s just back from a trip to Scotland so maybe he will share a bit about that with us too.) He will be bringing plants for sale at the meeting as well.
David McLean is a teacher, plants-man and designer. During his career he designed the NOVA Southeast University Medicinal Garden. In the 1960’s, David initiated and still participates in the BUSH Club (Better Understanding in the Study of Horticulture). David taught at Broward Community College and at NOVA SE University for 47 years. He developed and taught horticultural botany courses, plant identification courses, as well as classes in landscape design and nursery practices. He currently teaches the first Saturday of each month at Trinity Churchside Garden which is located at 1301 SW 18th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale. We are looking forward to his presentation.
Strive every day to Learn and Grow,
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Written by Meg Vandereedt
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:47 |
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Hi All,
A big huge Thank You to everyone who volunteered at the Mount’s Spring Plant Sale last month! We had a wonderful sale, and made a record profit for EHS, $1,200.00. Without all your help and support this would not have been possible. This sale we were very lucky to get some larger plant material for the booth. It’s been a few years since we could do this. And the waiting paid off, our booth was a sell out thanks to Pinder’s Nursery and our loyal customers who support our efforts.
This month’s meeting The EHS Board Presents the Herb of the Year “Elderberry” is a labor of “love” by our board. We all research and find out all we can about the year’s herb, and then bring it to you. As I write this, I have dozens (really dozens!!!) of herbal books strewn all over my office and living room, sticky-notes plastered everywhere. Of course, there is some drifting about when I open up an old prized and loved herb book, getting a bit “lost” in it. But isn’t that half the fun?
We look forward to a great time at this month’s meeting. Our Donnie Brown will be chairing this month’s meeting, and providing tea. The tasting table feature for May is basil.
If any of you happen to have an Elder/Elderberry tree or shrub growing in your yards, please come and share a branch or two, the plant is easily started from cuttings. And the blooms and berries are prized in the herbal and culinary worlds.
Next month in June we will have Merry Costanza come speak on ‘All we need to know about Caladiums”... Merry has spent years working with caladiums with her business Fancy Leaf Caladiums, and will have tubers for sale at the meeting.
See you all at the meeting!
Enjoy,
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