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Welcome to the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit
Monthly Meeting: February 27, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
The Positive Energy of Community Gardens with Mitchell Provensal, Project Coordinator for Baton Roots Community Farm.
By blending access to fresh food, skill-development, socialization, and art into one location, Baton Roots brings an opportunity for our community to learn best practices in sustainable agriculture on an urban farm.
Visitors and guests are always welcome to attend our meetings. Admission is free for HSABR members, $5 for all others. Please bring small bills if possible.
The Positive Energy of Community Gardens with Mitchell Provensal, Project Coordinator for Baton Roots Community Farm.
By blending access to fresh food, skill-development, socialization, and art into one location, Baton Roots brings an opportunity for our community to learn best practices in sustainable agriculture on an urban farm.
Visitors and guests are always welcome to attend our meetings. Admission is free for HSABR members, $5 for all others. Please bring small bills if possible.
Herb Day 2020
Saturday, February 29, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden
4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Admission is free for this annual event, so join us for a day of fun for the whole family!
We'll have thousands of healthy herb plants, including unusual ones, available for sale.
We expect to have the following:
Basil: Sweet, Thai, Purple Ruffles, Dark Opal, Rutgers Devotion, and Blue Spice
Bay Laurel
Blackberry: Wild and Thornless
Borage
Catnip
Chicory
Chives
Cilantro
Citronella
Curry
Cutting Celery
Dill
Echinacea
Elderberry
Fennel: Bronze and Fernleaf
Lavender: Goodwin Creek, Lusi Pink, Lusi Purple, Pinnata
Lemon Balm
Mint: Chocolate, Mojito, Peppermint, and two varieties of Spearmint
Muscadine: Bronze and Black
Oregano: Greek and Italian
Parsley: Curly
Rosemary: Prostrate, Upright, BBQ, Speedy, and Tuscan Blue
Sage
Sassafras
Sorrel
Thyme: Lemon, Orange, and Golden Large (Thymus aureus)
Witch hazel
And many more different herbs! Check back for updates as we get closer to the event.
The following classes will be held in the Ione Burden Conference Center:
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Butterflies and Pollinators; Ken Bosso, speaker
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Herbs by the Season – What to Plant in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter; Michael Polite, Sky Bright Herbs, speaker
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Succulents; Roz Fransen, speaker
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Herbal Teas, including the Herb of the Year, Rubus spp.; Anne Milneck of Red Stick Spice Co., speaker
Activities for children! Children will be able to make their own tiny leprechaun gardens, and our ever-popular Herbal Petting Zoo will be available for everyone to touch, smell, and taste the herbs!
A wide variety of vendors, including artists, artisans, and craftspeople will be present, offering decorative, or delicious, or fragrant, or beautiful, or useful items. This will be a great way to stock up on gifts for friends and family, or just to treat yourself!
We'll have musicians providing entertainment, food trucks so you don't starve while you're visiting with us, and lots to see and do!
Do you have questions about growing herbs? We have people who can help! Does lavender elude you? Can you make a pizza garden? How can you draw pollinators like bees and butterflies to your garden? What plants thrive in pots on the patio? How can you use herbs in your landscape? Ever heard of a Fennel forest? Is Rosemary really for remembrance?
Take a chance and bid on the raffle prizes!
Meet local environmentalists and naturalists, beekeepers, and craftspeople. Learn how local organizations are bringing the natural world to our attention. What is Nature Deficit Disorder and why is it important?
For more information, contact Claudia Ross, Herb Day 2020 Chair, at 225-268-5256 or info@hsabr.org.
Note: If possible, please bring small bills ($1s and $5s) so we don't run out of change!
Saturday, February 29, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden
4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Admission is free for this annual event, so join us for a day of fun for the whole family!
We'll have thousands of healthy herb plants, including unusual ones, available for sale.
We expect to have the following:
Basil: Sweet, Thai, Purple Ruffles, Dark Opal, Rutgers Devotion, and Blue Spice
Bay Laurel
Blackberry: Wild and Thornless
Borage
Catnip
Chicory
Chives
Cilantro
Citronella
Curry
Cutting Celery
Dill
Echinacea
Elderberry
Fennel: Bronze and Fernleaf
Lavender: Goodwin Creek, Lusi Pink, Lusi Purple, Pinnata
Lemon Balm
Mint: Chocolate, Mojito, Peppermint, and two varieties of Spearmint
Muscadine: Bronze and Black
Oregano: Greek and Italian
Parsley: Curly
Rosemary: Prostrate, Upright, BBQ, Speedy, and Tuscan Blue
Sage
Sassafras
Sorrel
Thyme: Lemon, Orange, and Golden Large (Thymus aureus)
Witch hazel
And many more different herbs! Check back for updates as we get closer to the event.
The following classes will be held in the Ione Burden Conference Center:
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM
Butterflies and Pollinators; Ken Bosso, speaker
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Herbs by the Season – What to Plant in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter; Michael Polite, Sky Bright Herbs, speaker
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Succulents; Roz Fransen, speaker
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Herbal Teas, including the Herb of the Year, Rubus spp.; Anne Milneck of Red Stick Spice Co., speaker
Activities for children! Children will be able to make their own tiny leprechaun gardens, and our ever-popular Herbal Petting Zoo will be available for everyone to touch, smell, and taste the herbs!
A wide variety of vendors, including artists, artisans, and craftspeople will be present, offering decorative, or delicious, or fragrant, or beautiful, or useful items. This will be a great way to stock up on gifts for friends and family, or just to treat yourself!
We'll have musicians providing entertainment, food trucks so you don't starve while you're visiting with us, and lots to see and do!
Do you have questions about growing herbs? We have people who can help! Does lavender elude you? Can you make a pizza garden? How can you draw pollinators like bees and butterflies to your garden? What plants thrive in pots on the patio? How can you use herbs in your landscape? Ever heard of a Fennel forest? Is Rosemary really for remembrance?
Take a chance and bid on the raffle prizes!
Meet local environmentalists and naturalists, beekeepers, and craftspeople. Learn how local organizations are bringing the natural world to our attention. What is Nature Deficit Disorder and why is it important?
For more information, contact Claudia Ross, Herb Day 2020 Chair, at 225-268-5256 or info@hsabr.org.
Note: If possible, please bring small bills ($1s and $5s) so we don't run out of change!
Thursdays in the Garden with Tyler!
Tyler Carr, Landscape Manager LSU AgCenter Botanical Gardens, is a real star in our book! He is super helpful to us in HSABR and provides us with great support in our efforts to create and maintain our herb gardens at Burden.
And he’s offering us a real deal—he’d like to establish Thursdays as a regularly scheduled maintenance day for us to come and work with him and make our herb gardens even better!
We’ll have more information about this soon but start thinking about blocking out some time on Thursday mornings for this important work. It’ll be a great way to log some volunteer hours for our non-profit!
Tyler Carr, Landscape Manager LSU AgCenter Botanical Gardens, is a real star in our book! He is super helpful to us in HSABR and provides us with great support in our efforts to create and maintain our herb gardens at Burden.
And he’s offering us a real deal—he’d like to establish Thursdays as a regularly scheduled maintenance day for us to come and work with him and make our herb gardens even better!
We’ll have more information about this soon but start thinking about blocking out some time on Thursday mornings for this important work. It’ll be a great way to log some volunteer hours for our non-profit!
If you haven't already renewed your membership in HSABR...
It's time! Our membership year runs from October to October, so please get your renewals in as soon as possible. And if you're not yet a member, now is a great time to remedy that situation!
Your membership in the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit (HSABR), includes all of the benefits of the national organization as well as our local unit. There are many wonderful benefits to membership, including numerous opportunities to learn and delight in the use of herbs. Our programs include lectures on a wide range of topics related to growing, cooking and using herbs. We also spend time tending to our community gardens in companionship with other members who are passionate herb devotees!
Membership in the Herb Society of America gives you access to the members-only area on the website and many HSA publications, including the HSA Quarterly Newsletter, Unit Connections, HerbalBytes, and GreenBridges™ newsletters, among others. HSA also offers informative webinars that provide our members with the opportunity to share their knowledge, delight, and use of herbs, as well as their varied experiences with a larger herbal community. Members can browse HSA's unique herb-related library, with over 3,500 volumes with topics ranging from vintage books on horticulture to modern fiction. Plus, you get exclusive discounts for online herb products, magazines, online herb classes, and reduced or free admission to public gardens and arboreta through AHS' Reciprocal Admissions Program.
Please visit the HSA's Membership page for a full list of benefits. In addition, being a member of HSABR puts you in contact with a pretty fine group of local folks who can help inspire you, assist you, and sympathize with you in your herbal pursuits!
Dues run from October to October, so the fee will be prorated if you join (not renew!) in a different month (click here for proration chart). You may pay by PayPal or check. The PayPal link will be on the confirmation page that comes up after submitting the membership application form, but if possible, please mail your check (payable to HSABR) to the address on the membership form, as that saves us PayPal fees and saves our treasurer a fair amount of hassle.
Please note: Your renewal/application is not complete until payment is received.
It's time! Our membership year runs from October to October, so please get your renewals in as soon as possible. And if you're not yet a member, now is a great time to remedy that situation!
Your membership in the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit (HSABR), includes all of the benefits of the national organization as well as our local unit. There are many wonderful benefits to membership, including numerous opportunities to learn and delight in the use of herbs. Our programs include lectures on a wide range of topics related to growing, cooking and using herbs. We also spend time tending to our community gardens in companionship with other members who are passionate herb devotees!
Membership in the Herb Society of America gives you access to the members-only area on the website and many HSA publications, including the HSA Quarterly Newsletter, Unit Connections, HerbalBytes, and GreenBridges™ newsletters, among others. HSA also offers informative webinars that provide our members with the opportunity to share their knowledge, delight, and use of herbs, as well as their varied experiences with a larger herbal community. Members can browse HSA's unique herb-related library, with over 3,500 volumes with topics ranging from vintage books on horticulture to modern fiction. Plus, you get exclusive discounts for online herb products, magazines, online herb classes, and reduced or free admission to public gardens and arboreta through AHS' Reciprocal Admissions Program.
Please visit the HSA's Membership page for a full list of benefits. In addition, being a member of HSABR puts you in contact with a pretty fine group of local folks who can help inspire you, assist you, and sympathize with you in your herbal pursuits!
Dues run from October to October, so the fee will be prorated if you join (not renew!) in a different month (click here for proration chart). You may pay by PayPal or check. The PayPal link will be on the confirmation page that comes up after submitting the membership application form, but if possible, please mail your check (payable to HSABR) to the address on the membership form, as that saves us PayPal fees and saves our treasurer a fair amount of hassle.
Please note: Your renewal/application is not complete until payment is received.