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Welcome to the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit
October Monthly Meeting and Program
October 22, 2026
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Burden Conference Center, LSU Ag Center Botanic Gardens
4560 Essen Ln., Baton Rouge, LA
Our program this month is a hands-on workshop in which participants will make their own Fire Cider. Fire Cider is a potent herbal tonic made from a blend of raw, organic ingredients, including garlic, onions, ginger, peppers, horseradish, lemon, spices, and apple cider vinegar. This infusion steeps for several weeks, creating a fiery, flavorful elixir.
In this workshop, you'll make your own 6-oz. jar of Fire Cider, using ingredients of your choice, to take home now to be ready for cold and flu season! The workshop is free, but as always, visitors and guests to HSABR meetings pay a $5 fee at the door. Due to space and materials limitations, the workshop is limited to 30 participants. Please register and obtain your ticket through the Eventbrite link below. If you miss out on getting a ticket to make your own jar, you are still welcome to attend to hear the program and watch the process of starting a batch of Fire Cider.
Fire Cider has become a popular modern herbal preparation, but it has roots in the long tradition of combining vinegar with pungent herbs, roots, spices, and other flavorful ingredients. Preparations like Fire Cider are often enjoyed for their warming, invigorating character and are traditionally associated with supporting digestion, circulation, and the body's natural defenses.
The ingredients themselves—such as ginger, garlic, onions, peppers, citrus, herbs, and spices—bring a fascinating range of flavors, aromas, and traditional uses to the preparation. While Fire Cider is sometimes promoted as a remedy for everything from colds to sluggish digestion, those claims reflect traditional or popular uses rather than established medical benefits.
Our program explores Fire Cider's history and traditions, the ingredients that give it its distinctive character, and the art of making your own. We'll look at what people have traditionally believed about this zesty preparation while keeping the focus on herbs, food, tradition, and hands-on learning—not medicine.
Tickets are available at Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/.../fire-cidera-hands-on...)
October 22, 2026
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Burden Conference Center, LSU Ag Center Botanic Gardens
4560 Essen Ln., Baton Rouge, LA
Our program this month is a hands-on workshop in which participants will make their own Fire Cider. Fire Cider is a potent herbal tonic made from a blend of raw, organic ingredients, including garlic, onions, ginger, peppers, horseradish, lemon, spices, and apple cider vinegar. This infusion steeps for several weeks, creating a fiery, flavorful elixir.
In this workshop, you'll make your own 6-oz. jar of Fire Cider, using ingredients of your choice, to take home now to be ready for cold and flu season! The workshop is free, but as always, visitors and guests to HSABR meetings pay a $5 fee at the door. Due to space and materials limitations, the workshop is limited to 30 participants. Please register and obtain your ticket through the Eventbrite link below. If you miss out on getting a ticket to make your own jar, you are still welcome to attend to hear the program and watch the process of starting a batch of Fire Cider.
Fire Cider has become a popular modern herbal preparation, but it has roots in the long tradition of combining vinegar with pungent herbs, roots, spices, and other flavorful ingredients. Preparations like Fire Cider are often enjoyed for their warming, invigorating character and are traditionally associated with supporting digestion, circulation, and the body's natural defenses.
The ingredients themselves—such as ginger, garlic, onions, peppers, citrus, herbs, and spices—bring a fascinating range of flavors, aromas, and traditional uses to the preparation. While Fire Cider is sometimes promoted as a remedy for everything from colds to sluggish digestion, those claims reflect traditional or popular uses rather than established medical benefits.
Our program explores Fire Cider's history and traditions, the ingredients that give it its distinctive character, and the art of making your own. We'll look at what people have traditionally believed about this zesty preparation while keeping the focus on herbs, food, tradition, and hands-on learning—not medicine.
Tickets are available at Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/.../fire-cidera-hands-on...)
If you haven’t already renewed your membership in HSABR...
It’s time! Our membership year runs from September to August, so please get your renewals in by September 30. 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 September to August, 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 September to August, so please get your renewals in by September 30. 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 September to August, 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.