February 2024

Greetings, all ,

I hope you all are ready for our annual mid-winter celebration of chili. Beef, sausage, chicken, vegan, vegetarian, beans, or no beans.

January 2024 Speaker

Angela Dugan: From Garden to Glass.

Discover how to use some of the best Florida plants for creating delicious mocktails. We will dive into the basics for developing mocktails, the use of trigeminal effects, and how to incorporate a variety of herbs and plants into syrups, garnishes, tonics and more to create flavorful mocktails.

Angela Dugan has spent nearly 20 years behind cocktail bars and almost as long creating cocktail and mocktail menus for a variety of bars and restaurants.  She has used cocktails as a creative outlet and has always worked under the premise that if it can work in the kitchen, it can work in a drink. Her and her husband are owners of Kapow Noodle Bar and have been using herbs and plants in cocktails since they first opened.

Angela has a Masters in Holistic Nutrition where she first started studying herbal medicine. Growing up on a farm with a large garden, she has always been connected to plants, from food to medicine then on to beverages. Creating cocktails and craft ingredients for her drinks, her husband Vaughan and her opened their own craft cocktail ingredient and garnish company, Dugan and Dame. She creates Tonics and Bitters utilizing traditional methods of medicine making. Dugan and Dame also provides cocktail garnishes and rims - all the ingredients to make a tasty and beautiful beverage

January 2024

Hello, all ,

Welcome to a new year and an exciting new season for us at the Evening Herb Society, starting with a celebration of Dry January with our favorite bartender and member Angela Dugan, presenting a selection of delectable 'mocktails‘ to tantalize our tastebuds and get us safely past those nasty traffic stops. In February we will have our own Jeannie Fernsworth at the front of the room to tell us what‘s going on at her favorite community garden. March brings our

November 2023 Speaker

Matthew Boyson, Mounts Botanical Garden Horticulture Supervisor

We are excited to welcome Matt to our meeting on November 28th. Matt describes himself as a "Palm Beach County Native, Graduate at Palm Beach State College with a degree in Landscape and Horticulture Management." He reports that he spent ten years

Society News November 2023

Hello, all,

As I write this, it has been raining for 2 days solid, and it's predicted to continue through Friday. Now, as most of us know and as I explained to a couple of snowbird friends, it is pretty normal to have a rainy spell at the beginning and end of the rainy season. It's just that this girl wants to play outside now that the summer heat is gone...  Hope all your pots and herb beds have good drainage.

Notes about the November Plant Sale

Our long-time member Ingrid reminded me

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