Gardening with Herbs in Connecticut:
Formal and Informal Culinary
and Medicinal Gardens
Friday Evening
August 8, 2008 at 7:00

Our guest speaker Debra Hultgren a practicing herbalist and gardener will discuss both wild and cultivated herbs that can be grown in backyard gardens. This will include a discussion of local plants (sometimes considered weeds) that have medicinal value as well as culinary herbs that also can be used in healing. The presentation will include slides of plants and some examples of simple homemade herbal preparations. Debra will bring example plants and demonstrate how they can be used. This program will take place in the Buchanan Auditorium and is free of charge and open to the community.