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MARCH 2020 Co-Editors Linda Alderman (Ewalderman@Comcast.Net) & Janice Freeman (Jkfreemanhoustu@Outlook.Com) 2 Herbs Make Scents THE HERB SOCIETY OF AMERICA SOUTH TEXAS UNIT VOLUME XLIII, NUMBER 3 MARCH 2020 Co-Editors Linda Alderman ([email protected]) & Janice Freeman ([email protected]) March 2020 Calendar Mar 10, Tues. at 10 a.m. Day Meeting is at the home of Julie Fordes. The program, “My Favorite Things from HSA Meetings” will be presented by Janice Stuff. Email Julie to RSVP at Fordes.julie @gmail.com. Please bring a dish to share. Mar 11, Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Evening Meeting is at the Cherie Flores Garden Pavilion in Hermann Park (1500 (Note Date Change) Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004). Hosts are Jenna Wallis and Mike Jensvold. The program, "The Seven Seens of Health, a Norooz Tradition" will be presented by Asal Shokati, Ayurvedic Practioner and Educator. Bring your plate, cutlery, napkin and a dish to share. Mar 18, Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Board Meeting is at the house of Julie Fordes. Members only. April 2020 Calendar Apr 14, Tues. at 10 a.m. Day Meeting (Spring Road Trip) is at Arbor Gate (15635 FM 2920, Tomball, TX. 77377). Cathy Livingston, coordinator. Apr 15, Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Evening Meeting is at the Cherie Flores Garden Pavilion in Hermann Park (1500 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004). Hosts are Fatma Ozgel and Rose Wherry. The program, "Hildegard of Bingen – The Holy Healer" will be presented by Adrian Melissinos, RN, PhD. Bring your plate, cutlery, napkin and a dish to share. Apr 16-17 National Annual Meeting (HSA) in Charleston, SC Apr 24, Fri. Set Up for Herb Day is at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Fondren Hall (5501 Main Street, Houston, TX 77004). Apr 25, Sat. 37th Annual Herb Day Luncheon and Symposium - “Slow Down and Savor Each Day “ is at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Fondren Hall (5501 Main Street, Houston, TX 77004). Members arrive by 8 am or as assigned. Pre- registration is required. Payment must be received on or before Monday, April 20, 2020. Newsletter deadline: the 25th of every month (April editor Janice Freeman) Herbs Make Scents March 2020 Linda Alderman Beth Murphy Lois Jean Howard Susan Wood Joan Jordan Dena Yanowski Chairman’s Corner I am really excited about HERB DAY! We have three awesome speakers, a great activity, delicious food and great shopping opportunities! I have sent a digital version of our promotional flyer to members through Mail Chimp. I would also like to get the printed flyers into the hands of members to distribute as soon as possible. Happy We were able to distribute just a few of our printed flyers at the last meeting. At St. Patrick's Day the next evening meeting, we will take care of that before we enjoy our potluck and speaker. If you take a flyer or two or three at our next meeting on March 11, please get them out right away, as that will be about 6 weeks before the event. We have had to postpone the New Member Orientation. I will let you know when it is up and running. We will have a board meeting March 18th and I will distribute the agenda prior to the meeting. If you have an agenda item, please contact me. That’s all from me… make sure you are contributing to Herb Day… we want to make this event both fun and profitable, and we can’t do it without YOU! Julie Fordes, Unit Chair Membership Update As of this month, The Herb Society STU’s Membership co-chairs report we have 53 active members. This number excludes inactive, sustaining or affiliate members. In 2019, 6 new members: Mary Wood, Pam Uschak, Yvette Darnell, Cynthia Card, Terry Snook, and Susan Fairfield King were approved for membership. Many of these women volunteered to host an evening program or attended Herb Day 2020 preparations. We are grateful they found our group and welcome them to The South Texas Unit! Visitors are invited to sign in at meetings and their emails will be added to our email list that week. After a few meetings, visitors are given the opportunity to apply for membership. There has already been new interest in membership from visitors this year! I will update STU on the status of those applications. Dena Yanowski, Membership Herbs Make Scents March 2020 Herbs Make Scents March 2020 In Memory of Thelma Rowe In Memory of Thelma Rowe, Member STU Thelma Rowe, a dedicated member of the South Texas Herb Society since 1993, passed away on Feb. 5, 2020. Thelma was a very active member and made many contributions to the Herb Society during her membership. A tribute will appear in the Unit's next newsletter. Rosemary for Remembrance Update: Herb Day 2020 Catherine O’Brien 37th Annual Herb Day and Symposium Slow Down and Savor Each Day This year, the Herb Society of America-South Texas Unit is celebrating slowing down and savoring each day on Saturday, April 25, 8:45 am-3 pm, at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Fondren Hall (5501 Main Street, Houston, TX 77004). The theme is designed to awaken and engage the senses through mindful perspectives on herb gardening, herbal floral design, herbal teatime, and to share time with friends. Pre-registration for the symposium is required. Member tickets are $25. Tickets for non-members are $60, but garden groups and other herb units can request to be seated together at their own table for six guests near the front. Guest speakers include Felder Rushing, the inspiration behind Slow Gardening, Teresa Sabankaya, author of The Posy Book, and Kim McHugh local Tea-Master and owner of McHugh Tea Room and Gifts in Bellaire, Texas. Attendees will be invited to create their very own tussie-mussies for a nominal fee. For further information about Herb Day, visit www.herbsociety -stu.org or email [email protected]. To help with Herb Day, please look for and bring containers for tussie- mussies to the next meeting. We could use bud vases, milk glass, goblets, tea cups or little tea pots. If you would like to grow some plants to donate to the Herb Marketplace, let us know what you have available. You can contact Catherine O’Brien via email ([email protected]) or call 281-467-1139. To read more about Passalong Plants, read Catherine’s article on page 8. Herbs Make Scents March 2020 Herbs Make Scents March 2020 I admit I have been a bit of a snob - I haven't BACK TO OUR ROOTS Julie Fordes been using peels from non-organic citrus for our blends and teas. Most of us, though, do not purchase oranges that are unsprayed and organic. If we only use organic oranges, we will simply not have an adequate supply. Several of the wise women in our group have advised that if non-organic fruit from regular supermarkets is washed thoroughly, it is just fine to use. Learn how to dry citrus peel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peiKI_F6G J0 What I like about this video is that it shows a peeling process that gets all the zest but none of the pith. However, the woman in the video uses a dehydrator which is fine if you Since we do not have our own unit garden, have one. Leaving the peel to dry on a plate we rely Timeon our toindividual Garden members Ladies!!! to or paper toweling until it is crisp and crunchy contribute what they are growing. (about 5 days give or take) is fine too. You With the sun coming back to us and the If we all do this to the best of our ability, and may not think that you have enough citrus to temperatures rising - but not too hot yet - it’s combine what we have, we should have a bother with, but if we add all our little bits the perfect time to get outside and garden! At nice bounty of locally grown herbs to share at together, it will truly amount to something! the last Evening Meeting we distributed pots Herb Day and Herb Fair. of lemon balm and seed for butterfly pea. HerbLemon Day balm is theis an next integral opportunity part of toour share Texas our driedHerb herbsTea and with dried people. butterfly These pea herbsflowers should This is the dried peel beliterally growing flew now off the in the shelves winter at garden. Herb Fair. Let of three oranges Pleaseme know help if youus wouldby growing, like to gatheringgrow either and of Job completed in one dryingthese whateverplants. We is incan your make garden: arrangements to setting! get them to you. I will have them at the next evening meeting Calendula as well. Orange rind We also still Lemonhave copies balm of Susan Wood’s handout on Lemon how to verbena harvest, dry and store Please continue to harvest and dry whatever is growing. You probably have mint, lemon herbs. Mint balm, lemon verbena and hopefully calendula Oregano Let’s talk a moment about oranges, in the garden. If it’s green - harvest and dry it! Whatever is green and needs a lemons, and other citrus. Orange peel is We can all follow the simple suggestion to… trim! another essential ingredient for our Texas Herb Tea. It would be great if we could dry “Grow what we need and Use lemon as well, possibly for another tea or what we grow!” spice blend. Julie Fordes Herbs Make Scents March 2020 Herbs Make Scents March 2020 Remember: 250 days until HERB FAIR - November 7, 2020 Donna Wheeler, Chair of Herb Fair The committee is almost complete.
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