January/February/March 2017

“For Use and For Delight”

Kentuckiana Herbal Thymes

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Chair Letter 1

Meetings 2

Spring Ed Day 3

Book Review 3

Meeting Minutes 4

Potpourri 5

Photos 6

From the Chair Snow if falling and the calen-dar tells me that it is 2017. My Latin teacher had a poster blocking the face of the clock in her classroom. The poster had two words, “Tempus fugit” - time is flying. Where, oh where, did 2016 go? Our unit has enjoyed some really good programs the last three months. Pansy Hefley, new member, presented “Silver Charms of Appala-chia”. Her posters were most artistic and informative and her talk on herbs and folklore was so interesting. I want to hear more from this lady. At our November meeting Mindy McIntosh Shelter presented “The Silver Cruet”, a class on making herbal oils and vinegars. We took home a quart of each with recipes. Hope yours turned out to be tasty. We did have a short business meeting at our December gathering but then had our “Silver Bells” holiday party. Marjo Howe’s home was dec-orated so lovely and festive. We played a really fun game with plastic wrap, painted clay flower pots, ex-changed herbal gifts, and enjoyed the pitch-in buffet. I am sorry that those who did not attend missed such a fun and festive thyme. Host-esses Marjo Howe, Deb Knight and Barbara Lusco could not have made it any more fun. I am excited also about our next three upcoming meetings. For January, Kim Tate, another new member, will present “The Silver Soap Dish”. She will talk about

making herbal soap. Kim sells her soap at several local farmer’s mar-kets and they smell good enough to eat. Our February meeting falls on Valentine’s Day so we are going to The Old Capitol Tearoom at noon in Corydon. This is a chance to dress up a little, wear a hat (optional) and enjoy taking tea. We would love to have a good size group for this meet-ing, “A Silver Tea Set”. The cost will be $16 and will need to be paid in advance by February 7th for your reservation. Give yourself a Valen-tine gift and join us. “Silver Thyme” in March will be our last meeting before our Spring Education Day. Join us at 4 pm at the church for a workshop to finalize plans for our big event. Pizza will be provided and we will work on any projects that need to be completed. I just reread the survey com-ments from last years Spring Educa-tion Day. This event is enjoyed by so many fans who attend and many commented that they are looking for-ward to “next year’s event”. Well, next year is here and it will soon be show thyme. So thanks to all of you, we will be celebrating our 25th annu-al Spring Education Day, “Silver & Cilantro”. More details are in another paragraph in this newsletter. I wish all of my beloved herb friends A Healthy, Happy, Herbie New Year 2017!

Joan Burton, Catnip Lady & Chair

Coriandrum sativum Coriander/Cilantro

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January 10 @ 6 PM

“The Silver Soap Dish ” Central Christian Church

Member Kim Tate will present a program on making herbal soap. She makes and sells her soaps at local farmers’ markets. For fun, bring your

favorite soap dish to display.

February 14 @ 12 PM

“A Silver Tea Set” Old Capitol Tea Room, 501 Capitol Ave., Corydon

Join us for a Valentine Tea. Dress up and wear your best hat. Cost $16 (reservation and payment required ahead).

March 14 @ 4 PM

“Silver Thyme” Central Christian Church

It’s thyme to get ready for our Spring Education Day. Bring any projects that you need help with at our workshop and planning meeting. Pizza will

be provided.

Hostesses: if unable to participate, please find someone to take your place and notify the other assigned hostesses and the Chair.

March 24 - Spring Education Day Set-Up - All members, time TBA.

March 25 - Spring Education Day - Silver anniversary of event. 9 am to 3 pm at Huber Plantation Winery.

Upcoming Meetings

Happy Birthday! January

JoAnn Luecke Rosa Kesten Marie Henize Davy Dabney

February

Kim Tate

March

Helen Sajko Lorraine Hughes

Pansy Hefley

Joan Burton Chair & Historian

(812) 738-8352 joanandbruce@twc.com

Lorraine Hughes Vice-Chair

(812) 738-7944 hugheshomestead

@gmail.com

Jett Rose Treasurer

(812) 590-4604 Jettellen@yahoo.com

Millie Chapala Recording Secretary

(812)923-3361 mchapala30@gmail.com

Barbara Lusco Corresponding

Secretary (713) 208-5383

2016-2017 Officers

Kim Davis Newsletter Editor

(812)347-0050 gardenelf3@aol.com

Through the Garden Gate By Joan Burton, KHS Chair

Kentuckiana School for the Blind Closed for Winter. All of the watering cans and the rain

gauge were emptied and brought home to store. Pioneer Garden Closed for Winter

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Book Review -“The Healing Foods” Submitted by Marjo Howe, KHS Member & Librarian

“The Healing Foods” by Patricia Hausman and Judith Hurley is 500 pages long, well written, well organized, and an easy read. Makes a great reference and recipe book. All foods and health issues are listed alphabetically; it starts with ‘acerola’ and ends with ‘yogurt’. The ap-pendix sources vitamins and minerals, and ranks foods according to their con-centration of best vitamin and mineral contents.

I can imagine myself opening the book and looking up menus for family and friends who love to eat healthy foods or have health issues, and being able to confidently prepare an entire meal for them. This book was given to our unit by KHS member Helen Trueblood as an addition to our library. It is easy to read and the recipes are unique; an example is a recipe for spicy rabbit sauce.

Spring Education Day 2017 By Joan Burton, KHS Chair

Our 25th Annual Spring Education Day will be March 25, 2017. “Silver & Cilantro” will be the name of this year’s event. Silver because it is our 25th year to have the event, and Cilantro because this

is the Herb of the Year as designated by the International Herb Growers Association. To my delight, Peggy Thieneman, herb grower extraordinaire, will present a talk on the Silver Herbs, and Stephen Lee, ‘Herb Meister’, will share a more culinary program highlighting Cilantro. We love the herbs and the knowledge that Peggy brings to our event. Stephen is charming and has been our speaker in the past,

many, many years ago. Over the years both have been really good friends to our unit. All committee chairs will be meeting soon. If you have any questions or new ideas, please call me or one of the chairs. Your sug-gestions are always appreciated. Be thinking about items for the market-place and raffle table. The survey from last year requested that we have more items in the marketplace. So put on your creative caps so that we may have something new and different. Much more will be forthcoming at our meetings and by email.

Old-Fashioned Remedies

Here are some simple natural reme-dies to freshen up the home: Place lavender or southernwood sachets

into clothing and linen drawers. They will help to deter moths and keep drawer con-tents smelling clean and fresh.

Gently rub a drop or two of your favorite essential oil directly onto the wood in dress-er drawers for a slow release effect.

Fill the inside of a pillow or cushion with fresh pine needles and place on chairs or sofas to freshen upholstery.

Smear the rims of the pots of window plants with an essential oil. Heat from the sun will warmup and release the aroma gradually.

If you have a fireplace or stove, add dried rosemary branches and cinnamon sticks to your kindling when you light the fire to cre-ate lovely warming scents.

On cold winter days make a simple spice blend of cloves, cinnamon sticks, dried or-ange and lemon peel and a few cups of ap-ple cider vinegar and water and simmer gently on the stove.

Contact Marjo to borrow this or any

books in the library.

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Meeting Minutes October

by Millie Chapala, Recording Secretary

The meeting was called to order after delicious refreshments by the refreshment commit-tee: Edith Davis, Kim Davis, Cynthia Hardy, and Maggie Oster. Members present were Joan Burton, Millie Chapala, Kim Davis, Cyn-thia Hardy, Clovis Hayes, Lorraine Hughes, Deb Knight, Jo Ann Luecke, Maggie Oster, Juanita Popp, and Kim Tate. The informative program by Mindy Shelter was on making an Italian spice oil and lemon thyme vinegar. We all got to make these items to take home. They will be a nice addition to our pantries.

The business meeting followed the program, and Joan reported that we made around $300 at the Corydon Farmers' Market this fall. Pro-gram books are out, and most members have them now. Julia Warf has had knee replace-ment surgery, and Helen Sajko has been in and out of the hospital. We send them healing thoughts.

It was brought up that we might want to consid-er meeting at an earlier time, especially during the winter months. Members should give this some consideration and share thoughts on this at the next meeting.

Joan presented the herb of the month, sage, and we ended our meeting after learning some new things about sage.

November by Millie Chapala, Recording Secretary

The meeting was called to order after delicious refreshments by the refreshment commit-tee: Edith Davis, Kim Davis, Cynthia Hardy, and Maggie Oster.

Members present were Joan Burton, Millie Chapala, Kim Davis, Cynthia Hardy, Clovis Hayes, Lorraine Hughes, Deb Knight, Jo Ann Luecke, Maggie Oster, Juanita Popp, and Kim Tate.

The informative program by Mindy Shelter was on making an Italian spice oil and lemon thyme vinegar. We all got to make these items to take home. They will be a nice addition to our pan-tries. The business meeting followed the program, and Joan reported that we made around $300 at the Corydon Farmers' Market this fall.

Program books are out, and most members have them now.

Julia Warf has had knee replacement surgery, and Helen Sajko has been in and out of the hospital. We send them healing thoughts. It was brought up that we might want to consid-er meeting at an earlier time, especially during the winter months. Members should give this some consideration and share thoughts on this at the next meeting.

Joan presented the herb of the month, sage, and we ended our meeting after learning some new things about sage.

December by Jett Rose, for Recording Secretary The Christmas meeting was held at the beautiful

home of Marjo Howe. Members present were Joan Burton, Marjo

Howe, Deb Knight, Kim Davis, Lorraine Hughes, JoAnn Luecke, Marie Henize, Clovis Hayes, Cynthia Hardy, Barbara Lusco, Juanita Popp, Jett Rose, Julia Warf, Millie Chapala, Kim Tate.

Joan opened the meeting with a poetic reading called “Under the Leaf”.

Cards for shut-in herbies were available for members to sign. Barb Lusco will mail out.

Spring Education day presenter Stephen Lee of Cookbook Cottage has been booked. Joan will contact Peggy Thieneman as a second present-er to demonstrate propagation.

Jett mentioned that the Master Gardener group wanted to set up their Lecture Series on the same day as Spring Ed, but in consideration have changed the date. A ‘save the date’ notice will be e-mailed out by Kim D., and posted on Facebook by Lorraine.

Herb of the month Silver Thyme was presented by Joan.

Club Historian Joan brought photo albums of past events.

Members sampled homemade cordials brought by Kim D. and enjoyed the always wonderful food brought by members.

Party game “Saranwrap Ball” was played; small gifts wrapped in layers were unwrapped while throwing dice. Lots of enthusiasm!

Silver tree ornaments were given to members by Joan.

Craft project of painting clay pots for Christmas decoration produced lots of fun and artistic de-signs.

Gift exchange appreciated by all participants and ended the meeting in high holiday spirits.

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Submissions Needed

Your knowledge and experiences are valuable to the club! Here is your chance to “promote the knowledge, use and delight of herbs through ed-ucational programs, research, and sharing the experience of members with the community”, including other members. Experience in professional writing is NOT required; just hand write or type your “herbal” or gardening experiences (please don’t send other people’s articles). Examples could be:

Growing a particular herb Visiting a special herb garden Review a herbal event National Conference trip Using herbs - medicinal, cooking,

household/cleaning, pets

Holiday herbs and crafts Unusual herbs Herbal recipes What made you interested in herbs? How your grandparents used herbs Herbal book or video review

Submit as many items as you like, whenever you like. Photos are welcome and will be returned. (Printing of articles will be subject to space available and will be held for future issues.) Send to Kim Davis at: gardenelf3@aol.com or by “snail” mail to her address in the club directory. Please contribute to your club newsletter!

From our Sages: a) Martha Ritz said to tell everyone hello.

Her lovely self was shopping at Paul’s Fruit Market in preparation for the holi-day.

b) Helen Sajko is in Floyd Memorial Hos-pital and has had surgery for kidney stones. Keep her and Cara in your thoughts.

c) Helen Trueblood seems to be enjoying her new digs. Some of her daffodil friends planted bulbs outside of her apartment window so that she will see them come Spring.

The HSA Website has a wealth of infor-mation. Forgot your login? It is your email address as user name and HSA1933 for password.

HSA Educational Conference 2017. Be making plans to attend the HSA meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas. May 3 - May 7, 2017. A highlight will be a visit to P. Allen Smith’s Garden. Do not know who P. Allen Smith is? You may watch his garden show eve-ry Saturday at 2 pm on KET 1. The regis-tration for the HSA conference usually is available in February but keep an eye out on the HSA website if it comes out earlier. Some of the tours fill up quickly.

Spring Tonic event, March 4 by the Hoosier Hillsides Master Gardeners is tak-ing registrations. To download flyer/registration, go to: https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/master-gardener/events/10th-annual-spring-tonic-hoosier-hillsides-master-gardeners/

Potpourri

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language. – Sir Thomas Moore

Postage

Kentuckiana Herb Society 545 W. Whiskey Run Road New Salisbury, IN 47161

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. ~ Nicholas Culpeper

The Herb Society of America is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to promoting the knowledge, use and delight of herbs through educational programs, research, and sharing the experience of members with the community. Since we are not medical practitioners, it is the policy of The Herb Society of America not to advise, recommend, or prescribe herbs for medici-nal use. Information and links are provided as an educational service, and The Herb Society of America can not be held liable for the content included in these resources. Please consult a health care provider before pursuing any herbal treatments.

Kentuckiana Herb Society

Christmas with the KHS Herbies

To Friends Well Met! Wonderful food, fun game, and crafty project! Thanks to Marjo Howe for hosting our event, and to Deb Knight, Barbara Lusco, and Marjo for their planning and hard work!