October/November/December 2018

“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

Meeting Info 2

Central District 3

Cookbook 3

Potpourri 4

Library 5

Meeting Minutes 6

KSB Garden 8

From the Chair Yesterday was the last day of

summer with the temperature near ninety degrees Fahrenheit. Today, the first day of fall, the high has been just in the sixties. I am happy that Mother Na-ture received the memo and turned down the thermostat to welcome in the Autumnal equinox. Our program committee met several thymes at some good restau-rants, including Havana Blues, Mirage, Dragon King and Life Ministries. We had a fun thyme, ate good food and did come up with the programs for the year. Thanks again to Jo Ann, Marjo, Lorraine, Linda and Susan for all of your suggestions. The program book was ready and distributed at our September meet-ing. Many thanks to Kim for typing the book and adding graphics to make it pretty. If you would like a color copy you may contact Kim to send it to your computer and you may print it. If you did not come to the September meeting the books will be available at the Octo-ber meeting. Hopefully, by that meet-ing our HSA cards will have arrived. It was nice to see so many members at our September meeting. Gina Anderson presented a program on plant/herb propagation. Kim and Deb Knight provided delicious refreshments and the room looked Autumn festive. Six of our members went up to Stream Cliff Herb Farm in Commiskey, IN. We visited the shops, the nursery,

the winery and ate at the Sprigs & Twigs Tea Room. We walked around the gardens and chatted with Betty Manning. Even though it was a hot day we really enjoyed our thyme there. Our October meeting will be at Lorraine Hughes’ cabin on Blue River in Fredricksburg, IN. Directions will be sent out with the fall email reminder. Lorraine says that the cabin is easy to find. Wear your most festive Witchy outfit or other costume as the meeting will be an early Halloween party. I will present a program on Black Cats and their favorite herbs. November’s meeting will be back at the church. Deb Knight will present a program on the Sequim Lav-ender Farm that she visited over the Summer. Our December meeting will be at the home of Jett Rose. She will be cooking for us and we will enjoy her lovely decorations. We will have an optional herbal gift exchange. Some members wanted to exchange herbal liquors so this would be the thyme to begin making your concoction. We re-quest that members bring peanut butter or jelly to donate to a local soup kitch-en. The next few weeks will bring many temperature and color changes followed by falling leaves, and soon enough, some snowflakes. I hope that everyone has had a lush herb garden over the summer months and that you are thinking about your final harvest and putting your gardens to bed. I look forward to Mother Nature showing us some fall color before Jack Frost shows up.

Happy Fall! Joan Burton, Chair & Catnip Lady

P a g e 2 K e n t u c k i a n a H e r b a l T h y m e s

December 11 @ 6 PM - Delightfully Delicious Holiday Party Home of Jett Rose

Holiday dinner at Jett’s. Optional herbal/garden gift exchange ($20 limit) . Members encouraged to bring a small bottle of homemade herbal liquor for exchange. Charitable giving: peanut butter/jelly for the homeless.

Herb of the month: Patchouli - Marjo Howe Book of the month: “Martha Stewart’s Christmas” - Cynthia Hardy Refreshments: Millie Chapala & Maggie Oster

Upcoming Meetings

Happy Birthday! October

Cynthia Hardy Gerri Crawford

November

Millie Chapala

September

Qudsia Davis Clovis Hayse Susan Hart Joan Burton

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

Marjo Howe & Judy Cato

Recording Secretaries (812) 734-0799

marjohowe@gmail.com (812) 738-3976

jcato@Spaulding.edu

Barbara Lusco Corresponding

Secretary (713) 208-5383

Balusco@aol.com ________

Kim Davis Newsletter Editor

(812)347-0050 gardenelf3@aol.com

2017-2018 Officers

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October @ 9 PM - Herbal Kitty Delights &Black Cats Lorraine Hughes’ Blue River Camp

Joan Burton will talk about the history of Black Cats and herbs they would find a delight. Wear your favorite witch’s outfit or festive attire.

Herb of the month: Garlic - Linda Pahner Book of the month: “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead” - Cynthia J. Refreshments: Lorraine Hughes, Jo Ann Luecke

November 13 @ 6 PM - Sequim Lavender Farm Central Christian Church

Deb Knight will talk about her travels to the Sequim Lavender Festival in Washington State.

Herb of the month: Lavender - Deb Knight Book of the month: “Tips for the Lazy Gardener” - Deb Slentz Refreshments: Judy Cato, Clovis Hayse

P a g e 3 K e n t u c k i a n a H e r b a l T h y m e s

RCentral DDistrict Gathering By Joan Burton, KHS Member

Red, White & Bloom Herbal Fair Joan Burton, Susan Hart, Marjo Howe and JoAnn Luecke traveled to Indianap-olis, IN for the Central Dis-trict Gathering, HSA., August 24 & 25, 2018. Our activities began with a tour of The In-diana Medicinal Gardens. This beautifully well main-tained and labeled garden contains over 100 Native and Medicinal plants. I was

so happy to see that one of the quadrants had been dedicated in honor of Charlene Rupp, one of our former members and the Founder of The Central Indiana Unit. We then visited The White River Gardens

and saw the lovely sunken herb garden that is cared for by the Central Indiana Unit. We then went to eat at Daw-son’s on Main where we had the opportunity to visit with members from the other units.

Susan and I accepted the challenge of making crafts back at the hotel led by Pat Greathead and other HSA members. We de-signed tea lights, made wooden wind chimes and bath bags. Taking a cue from the article in the most recent Herbarist we also began singing some herb songs and rhymes. Pat furnished some refreshments, as if we needed to eat again. Saturday, we went in the rain out to the Fairgrounds and the Purdue Extension office. Emily Wood presented the program, “Gardening for Wildlife”. Constance Ferry presented the pro-gram on “Adaptogens for Health and Healing of the Earth.” We enjoyed a catered lunch. When a break from the rain came, we trooped out to the Purdue Extension Master Gardener’s Demo plot. It was lovely and filled with flowers, vegetables and herbs. Our last speaker was Dave Burcham presenting “Better Living, Better Cooking with Ol-ive Oil. On breaks we had an opportunity to shop the vendors and bid on the Silent Auction items. The Kentuckiana Unit donated an herbal sampler basket and a catnip themed kitty basket with items donated by our members. We had such a good thyme and I encour-age all of you to attend one of these gatherings. A big thank you is owed to Pat Greathead and The Central Indiana Unit.

We voted at our September meet-ing to begin the process of compiling a new cookbook. This will be our third book. Our first cookbook, “A Taste of Herbs” was published in 1995. Our sec-ond cookbook, "Another Taste of Herbs” was published in 1999. That has been ten years and it is Thyme. Jett Rose has graciously volun-

teered to chair the cookbook commit-tee. She will be looking for cookbook committee members and will also be requesting that each member submit at least five or more herbal recipes. We had 100% participation from members for the previous cook-books and are hoping that ALL of you will submit your favorite recipes.

KHS Cookbook

Sue Arnold introduced us to the Central Indiana sponsored Herb Garden at White River

Garden in Indianapolis.

Listen! the wind is rising, And the air is wild with leaves;

We have had our Summer Evenings; Now for October eves! ~ Humbert Wolfe

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Potpourri • We welcome new members, Donna Poe

and Mary Harper. We will look forward to getting to know you better.

• Members were issued two name tags and lanyards several years ago. One was to be kept in a box at the church and the other was to be taken home so that it would be available if you were out at a venue. Please make an effort to find your name tag and wear it to the meetings.

We have many new members and this is a good way for them to learn your name.

• Chair Joan thanks the unit for the big Louisville Stoneware bowl. She does not know yet whether she will use it for salad or for bath-ing!

• We send on going get well wishes to Qud-sia, Helen S. and Jim Popp.

35 years

Maggie Oster Helen Sajko

Barbara Warf

15 years

Millie Chapala

10 years

Kim Davis Marjo Howe

Jo Ann Luecke

Happy Anniversary to Our Members These members are marking an anniversary in the Kentuckiana Herb Society:

Thanks for ALL that you have done for our unit over the years. Those at the meeting received their appropriate year pin and a centerpiece to take home.

Please note that our meetings for the "dark" months from October through March will be daytime meetings. We were request-ed to start our meetings at 1 pm and be out of the church before 3:30 pm so that Peg and Mike can keep on their current work sched-ules. We will need to start our activities promptly and be succinct in our meetings. If you are a hostess please clean up the kitch-

en immediately after we eat so that we can be out of the premises at the appropriate thyme. We are very grateful to be allowed to have our meetings at the church and want to cooperate as much as possible. Also note, clocks need to Fall Back on Sunday, November 4 as Daylight Savings Time ends.

Thymes, They Are a-Changing

Fall, leaves fall, die, flowers away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the Autumn tree. ~ Emily Bronte

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The KHS Library Book Review by Judy Cato

Secrets of the Garden Path with Recipes: From Stream Cliff Herb Farm, Tearoom and Winery by owner, Betty Man-ning. On the first page of the book, Man-ning provides a family tree of the seven gen-erations of the family which have had a hand in running the farm. Looking forward, it in-cludes Betty, the author, and her husband Gerald, their two children and six grandchil-dren. Going backwards, the farm goes back to her great-great grandparents. But the book is dedicated to Betty’s grandmother, Luella, who lived on the farm for more than 50 years and persevered to keep it going. Luella was also a quilter, and Betty’s hus-band Gerald put in the many quilt shaped gardens at the farm as a tribute to her. The gardens feature several designs: Dresden Plate, Grandmother’s Fan, and Log Cabin. The book opens with a history of the farm in Commiskey Indiana. It is called “Stream Cliff” because it is situated on an 80-foot cliff that overlooks Graham Creek. The farm is a garden business that sells a huge selection of herbs, perennial and annual flowers. It is also the location of Twigs and Sprigs Tearoom, which features herbal foods, and Stream Cliff Winery which fea-tures about 20 handcrafted wines. The his-tory of the farm is fascinating. Here, you will learn who built which buildings that are still used today. For example, “The Keeping Room”, used today as a conference and classroom, was originally built by the railroad

in 1868. It served as a boarding house for the men as they built the stone fills for the railroad construction. When used as a boarding house, it featured a large sleeping area on the 2nd floor and living space on the first floor. In addition to the winery, tearoom, business and gardens already mentioned, the farm has several other gardens: a gar-den with a heart in a square, a crucifix gar-den, a Fairy Garden with a playhouse for children, a Bridal Garden with a wooden bridge, and a Sanctuary Garden with a small outdoor church. The book includes color photographs of all of these gardens. There is a section in the book on “Favorite Culinary Herbs” and a section on “Christmas at the Farm” which describes the historical role of herbs at Christmas. And of course, the section on recipes will undoubt-edly entice you to try several of them. There are also several wonderful quotations on gardening scattered through-out the book. I will quote one: “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect won-ders.” Henry David Thoreau. Finally, the author of this book is also a folk artist and a few of her works are repro-duced in this book. Using both oils and acrylics, her themes are structured around animals and the farm. I highly recommend this book.

Contact Marjo to borrow

this or any books in th e

library.

As the Kentuckiana Herb Society is now under the umbrella of the Purdue Sunnyside Master Garden program, the question recently came up “Could we count our programs as train-ing, advanced training, or volunteer hours?”. I emailed Gina Anderson and she gave me this answer: “I have always allowed people to count your monthly meetings for ADVANCED TRAINING if they want to. They just wouldn’t be

able to count the business portion of your meet-ing as volunteer time because you aren’t cover-ing Master Gardener business” Knowing this information, I will ask our secretaries to time our Programs and time the Herb of the Month talk which I consider educa-tional. This will be reported in the minutes and it will be your option to report your advanced train-ing hours for Master Gardener credit.

KHS & Hours for MG’’s By Joan Burton, KHS Chair

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Meeting Minutes July by Marjo Howe, Recording Co-Secretary • KHS met at Edith Davis’ house at 6 pm on July 17,

2018. We were pleased to welcome 2 new mem-bers, JoAnn Hughes and Debbie Slentz, and hope that they enjoy our group as much as we enjoy wel-coming them. Also in attendance: Jett Rose, Linda Miller, Joan Burton, Cynthia Johnson, Cynthia Hardy, Judy Cato, Lorraine Hughes, Kim Davis, Edith Davis, Marjo Howe, Susan Miller, Jo Anne Luecke. After a great meal prepared by our hostess Edith, our meet-ing came to order.

• Our first report was by our treasurer Jett; we have $12,234 in our accounts. Jett reminded us that we donate $100.00 each year to the Ky State Fair.

• Garden reports - The Sensory Garden: Joan and Bruce cleaned the underbrush from the garden, then planted pelargoniums, salvia, lavender, lantana, and ornamental kale.

• Concerning our second garden, the Pioneer Garden, we felt that because the garden isn’t fenced and pro-tected from deer, we were unable to keep it present-able. I took a photo of the garden that week and on-ly monkshood and linaria were growing. The deer had eaten all of our plants and weeds had taken over. We voted to drop it. Edith will inform Jared . Our plaque was put up in 1992; we have to decide what to do with it. We will leave the bench and use the iron tripod at KSB.

• Newsletter report - Kim is working on the July-Aug-Sept newsletter; please submit any events, articles, or book reports to Kim.

• Historian report - Joan had a Tasha Tudor framed print that had been Marty Thomas’, purchased on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Herb Society. Marty’s family gave it to Joan per Marty’s wishes.

• We had 2 herb reports: Kim Davis reported on basil and Marjo Howe reported on tansy. Kim brought Shishido peppers and a Genovese basils for all and Marjo brought 2 tansy plants. Susan Hart answered correct questions on the tansy and took 2 home.

• Our nominating committee accepted the continuation into the next term of the current slate of officers with the exception that the 2 recording secretaries will be Judy Cato and Marjo Howe.

• Our by-laws committee still needs to meet.

• We discussed the Tarrytown meeting the previous month which was attended by some of our members.

• News from Central District about their Red, White and Bloom Herbal Fair Aug 24 and 25 was dis-cussed; several people expressed interest.

• Our dues and volunteer hours were due at the end of July; some were received this meeting.

• We voted on moving the times of the Oct -March meetings to earlier in the day so that we may adjourn while it is still light. The April-Sept meetings will stay

the same.

• This is the time of the year to dry our herbs, make pesto, collect coriander seeds, and water heavily as needed.

• JoAnne Luecke gave a slide presentation on gar-dens she has visited in South Africa, Greece and Italy. The gardens were stunning; we enjoyed the chance to see such impressive displays.

• Many thanks to Edith for the great food and letting us enjoy her hospitality.

August by Judy Cato, Recording Co-Secretary

• We had a great August meeting! We had 17 mem-bers present and two guests. Members present were Joan Burton, Judy Cato, Millie Chapala, Edith Davis, Kim Davis, Cynthia Hardy, Susan Hart, Clovis Hayse, Marjo Howe, Jo Ann Hughes,Lorraine Hughes, Deb Knight, Jo Ann Luecke, Linda Miller, Juanita Popp, Jett Rose, and Helen Sajko. A big herbal welcome to our guests, Mary Harper and Cara Sajko.

• The meeting began with great refreshments provid-ed by Marjo Howe and Cynthia Hardy.

• Joan opened the business meeting with a poem, “Summer Dilemma” by Joan Jansen. Committee reports followed.

• Treasurer Jett Rose reported that when checks clear, we have $7,923.09 in checking and $2,779.55 in Savings.

• Joan reported that our garden at KSB looks good right now.

• Kim reported that the newsletter is out. And every-one agreed that it looks great.

• Old Business: We discussed again the possibility of taking care of the Old Capital Herb Garden in down-town Corydon. Joan mentioned that if we decide to take it on, we have to commit to taking care of it, and this means more than just one person.

• New Business: We are considering putting together a new cookbook. There are not many old ones left. No decision was reached.

• Joan and Jett will be presenting “Cooking with Herbs” for Oldham County Master Gardeners next Tuesday.

• At 7:20 Joan Burton began her wonderful report on the Herb of the Month: Feverfew.

• This was followed by Susan Hart’s outstanding re-port on our Book of the Month: Herbal Treasures by Phyllis Shaudys.

• Our program was “A Herbal Harvest Show and Tell”; members shared summer herbal projects. It was delightful to hear about so many creative projects our members have been pursuing over the summer.

• Our next meeting will be September 11 at Central Christian Church.

• The meeting adjourned at 8:30. (Minutes continued on page 7)

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I noticed my Datura Wrightii were being stripped of leaves and wondered what would dare to eat them because they are Jimson weed. Then I spotted these tobacco hornworms (Manduca Sexta) which pu-pate into hawk moths, also called hummingbird moths. Their larval forms eat Solanaceae plants such as potato, tomato, and datura. Then I noticed parasitized caterpillars. The caterpillars have been used by Braconidae wasps as incubators for their eggs. These wasps belong to the Hymenoptera genus. They are not dangerous to humans. Notice the final stage where the caterpillars are mummies left to hang as the Egg Cocoons have flown away as adults.

Beneficial Parasites By Marjo Howe, KHS Member

Meeting Minutes (cont’d)

September - Marjo Howe, Recording Co-Secretary

• KHS met Sept. 11 at 6:00 at Central Christian Church . The hostesses were Kim Davis and Deb Knight. The food was great; they did a wonderful job with food and decorations.

• Attending were Cara Saijko, Helen Saijko, Cynthia Hardy, Clovis Hayse, Sue Hart, Linda Miller, Joan Burton, JoAnn Luecke, Cynthia Johnson, Deb Knight, Edith Davis, Kim Davis, Marjo Howe,J ett Rose, Donna Poe, Judy Cato, Deb Slentz, JoAnne Hughes, and guests Mary Harper, Cindy Gnau, and Peggy Rochstro.

• Our speaker was Gina Anderson, Agriculture & Nat-ural Resources Educator in Floyd County talking about “Plant Propagation”. It was a very informative presentation (for an outline contact Kim or Marjo).

• Two of our members, Helen S and Cynthia H, expe-rienced medical emergencies but have now recov-ered.

• We reported upon the trip to Indianapolis for the Central Indiana district event. Attending were Jo-Ann Luecke, Susan Hart, Marjo Howe, Joan Burton. We toured the gardens in the Old Hospital Grounds and in one section of the garden looked at the

plaque for Charlene Rupp, a member very influential in the history of our unit.

• We had 4 very informative speakers and our district rep Pat G. set up a craft night on Saturday; Susan and Joan attended.

• HSA treasurer of HSA membership acknowledg-ment pins: Jo Ann Luecke 10 years, Marjo Howe 10 years, Kim Davis 10, Millie 15, Barbara Warf 35, Maggie Oster 35

Old Business

• Old Capital Herb Garden: Steve Wendelyn from Harrison County Master Gardeners has been work-ing with us to “whip the garden in shape” which means plant. hoe, weed, maintain. So far, Joan and Marjo have volunteered several days. Good volun-teer hours ladies if you are interested; contact Joan.

• The Program Committee scouted the Sisters Tea Room in Buckner, our visit will be in February - “A Delightful Place”.

• Judy Cato gave a wonderful book report on Betty Mannings book about Stream Cliff ,"Secrets of the Garden Path".

• We discussed the herb of the month - patchouli.

Winter is in the wood,

The moon wades deep in snow,

Pile balsam boughs about the sills

And let the fires glow! ~ Elizabeth Coatsworth

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

Photo: Marjo

Photo: Kim D.

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Gardens are the slowest of the performance arts. - Mac Griswold

The glories of summer are full fling in the sensory garden at the School for the Blind. The long awaited fruits of the pur-ple tomato are turning red. Hopefully, the ripe version tastes better than the deep purple one! The hot breeze today mixes to-gether the scents of pineapple sage, lem-on thyme, pungent rosemary, and grassy parsley. Neatening up the herb bed is a delight of aromas. Trimming the flowering boughs of the blue chaste bush is a sad chore, but the full blossoms need trimming back. Not so sad is hacking away the insidious hon-

eysuckle that has sprung up to hog the sun light around the picnic circle. Equally satisfying is ripping out the passion vine that strangles the sidewalk and the mari-golds. The sidewalk says, “Thank you,” and the flowers nod. We three gardeners finish a satis-fying morning of trimming, weeding, water-ing, and enjoying each other’s company. Many thanks to Joan Burton, who has spruced up this garden faithfully for count-less hours. We hope to continue nurtur-ing this lovely garden.

Susan Hart, Jo Ann Hughes,

and Linda Miller

September in the KSB Garden

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