Heritage Day April 30, 2016

What a fun day --Heritage Day Saturday April 30, 2016!  This was the third annual mark your calendar always last Saturday in April. The event drew a big crowd (est. 475-500) although overcast but no rain.  The Louisa Herb Guild made flavored salt and sold out! Tina and Trecia were busy at the table answering questions, giving out salt recipes, and being charming! Just a quick note will update more soon.  PS Thanks cleanup crew the Garden looked lovely and put on a show!

    

Herb Guild Spring! Heritage Day this Saturday

Hello Everybody! The herb guild has been very busy this spring.  We have just installed the first phase of our new herb signs in the Michie house garden at the Heritage Farm.  Please check out this new addition.  These signs not only describe what the plant is but offers a QR code for smart phone access to provide more information and allows updates.  We are very excited by this new communication method.

Also the third annual Heritage Day is this Saturday, April 30th 10-4.  Please join us.  We will have a table there discussing the herb guild as well as selling flavored herbal salts.  The guild really enjoyed making these salts and decided to make some for the public.  A real deal at 2 for a $1.00.  We have rosemary, lime, lemon, pepper available!    Please come out and visit us at Heritage Day this Saturday at the Louisa County Historical Society. Great artisans will be demonstrating their crafts and plenty of fun for kids and adults.

The guild will also be showing how to work flax into a thread which could be made into linen--a new learning experience for us and we hope the public enjoys it.

Welcome new members too from the great gardening sessions conducted by the Master Gardeners of Central Va.  The first session- an herb session conducted by our own herb "consultant" Krista Rahm of Forrest Green Farms was very well attended and many folks expressed interest in the Louisa Herb Guild and her farm and educational sessions.  

Hope to see you soon, Deb

SALT - Flavored salt meeting

FLAVORED SALT!
Members of the guild met recently and had a program devoted to salt--the only rock we eat!  Attendees flavored salt with lemon zest and fresh rosemary.  We used fine sea salt and baked it (low oven 200) for 20 minutes and each took home some to try!  As you can see by the pictures it wasn't all work in the "salt mine" we had treats that were delicious.