Hey Herbies!
Pam Stranahan presented an
excellent program yesterday, along with food samples, on "How
archeologists determine what prehistoric folks ate!!" It was a great program!
Thanks so much Pam! For any of you that are interested in this subject, and
have a Facebook account, check out Florida Historical Society Archaeological
Institute for more
information on some of ways they can determine what foods were eaten.
Pam also gave us a couple
of websites to check out: www.txarch.org and www.texasbeyondhistory.net. Both sites have lots of good information about Texas archaeology. Also she had
a very informative book on the subject Mother Earth’s Mercantile: Plants of the Four
Corners Area and Their Uses Through Time www.crowcanyon.org/publications/mother_earths_mercantile.asp.
Pam is on the Board
of The Friends of the History Center
for Aransas County www.aransashistorycenter.org/about-aransas-history-center. They are having a Grand Opening for
their new office on Saturday, May 17, from 10:00 until noon at 801 E. Cedar
Street, Rockport, Texas www.aransashistorycenter.org/upcoming-events.
The historic house will have gardens planted and Pam asked our group, Rockport
Herb & Rose Study Group, if we would be interested in planting and attending
to the herb garden. We voted a YES; we would like to do this. We will get back
with more information at a later date! If you have this Saturday free, go over
and check out the place.
For any of you that are interested, we
are giving a program at the South Texas
Botanical Gardens & Nature Center www.stxbot.org on Saturday, April 26 from 10:00 until
noon. The program is "Culinary Herbs 101: Growing, Harvesting, Using" and we
will have information handouts, recipe handouts along with tastings and some
herbs for sale. So far, Cindy, Lois, Pat and I are planning on participating.
If anyone else is interested, please contact me a/s/a/p!
Our May 14 meeting will be a Field Trip
to the Herb Cottage owned by our member Cindy Meredith www.theherbcottage.com. We
will meet at the Ace Hardware parking lot and depart promptly at 8:00 and car
pool up. Be sure to bring your lunch and any goodies that you might want to
share. It's always a fun trip to visit Cindy's place out in the country and
always lots of wonderful plants! Please RSVP, yes or no.
Nice weather is here finally, so go out
and play in the dirt!
Great Gardening,
Linda
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