THE 23RD ANNUAL

HERBAL FORUM AT ROUND TOP

“THE SPICY WORLD OF GINGERS” Ginger - Our Herb for 2018

Saturday, March 17, 2018 With Optional Workshops on Friday, March 16th

Join us as we explore the world of herbs and grow in knowledge

and understanding while learning exciting new ways to

utilize these ancient plants.

Featured Presentations by:

Judy Barrett Gayle Engels Bill McKinley

Heidi Sheesley Lois Sutton

Garden Buffet Luncheon Featuring ginger &

a variety of other flavorful herbs

The Blessing of the Garden with Words and Music

Special Appearance by:

James Dick, Round Top Festival Institute Founder and Artistic Director

Shopping Galore! Plant Sale sponsored by The Herb Society of America, Pioneer Unit

“Thyme Well Spent” Gift Shop

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Dedicated in

Memory of Lucia Bettler

Registration

Make reservations online at www.festivalhill.org or by phone at 979-249-3129

Herbal Forum Registration Fee (required) $80.00 (includes Saturday lunch)

Friday Workshops (optional)

1. Fun With Hypertufa

with Barbara Hemmer and Henry Flowers $40.00*

1:00pm or 3:30pm

2. Designing Gingerly

with Bill McKinley $40.00*

1:00pm or 3:30pm

3. Ginger—The Root of Fabulous Flavor

with Billi Parus $40.00*

1:00pm or 3:30pm

Friday Buffet Lunch $19.22** (optional & available for Herbal Forum registrants only)

Friday Presenters’ Dinner (optional and space is limited) $44.84**

-Full buffet dinner with salad, entrée, side dishes, dessert, wine, coffee, tea and water.

*- participation fee includes materials; attendance per workshop session is limited

**- prices include sales tax When you register please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.

-Reservations may be made online at www.festivalhill.org or

by phone at 979-249-3129

Deadline

March 9th!

Garden Gazebo at the Plant sale -While at the plant sale make sure to visit the gazebo for a variety of garden-related items

such as garden signs, birdhouses, gourds, and hypertufa creations.

Optional Participation Workshops Participation in workshops is limited to Herbal Forum registrants and is by reservation.

We are sorry, but we can not make exceptions.

Register online or call to reserve your space or check availability—(979) 249-3129.

Friday, March 16, 2018

All workshops offered at 1:00pm and again at 3:30pm

1. Fun With Hypertufa Barbara Hemmer and Henry Flowers, Members of HSA Pioneer Unit

Hypertufa is an ancient and fun way to make your own garden containers or decorative items. It is a durable product made with natural materials and can be used in many crea-tive ways. Participants in this workshop will each create a hypertufa planting container and a decorative garden mushroom. The process of making draped hypertufa containers will also be demonstrated. Participants should bring durable rubber gloves and wear work clothes or a durable apron as this process can be messy. All other materials will be provided.

$40 participation fee (includes materials). Each workshop is limited to 20 participants.

2. Designing Gingerly Bill McKinley, Director of The Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M University

Participants of this workshop will create their own floral design from an assortment of flowers and plants, including both flowering ginger and ginger root. The design concepts of parallelism and basing, along with the elements of design line and form will be empha-sized. Participants must bring their own snips/pruners for cutting stems. All other materials will be provided.

$40 participation fee (includes materials). Each workshop is limited to 20 participants.

3. Ginger—The Root of Fabulous Flavor

Billi Parus, Owner of Lavender House in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Ginger is one of the most versatile of herbs. It can be used to flavor everything from soup to nuts, appetizer to desserts and beverages to boot! A fabulous array of tastings and recipes will inspire you to make ginger a part of your eve-ryday culinary repertoire.

$40 participation fee (includes materials). Each workshop is limited to 20 participants.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE* Friday, March 16, 2018 9:00am-5:00pm Plant Sale………………..………..West Terrace, Festival Concert Hall

“Thyme Well Spent” Gift Shop ……….…...School Building, Room 9

10:00am Overview of the Plant Sale Plants ….……...….....…...Plant Sale Area

-Henry Flowers, Herbal Forum Director

10:00am-6:00pm Early Check-In ………………………...………...Festival Concert Hall

(Overnight guests may pick up room keys)

12:00 noon Optional Buffet Lunch……………...…….Menke House Dining Room

-available for Herbal Forum registrants only

$19.22 (reservation required)

1:00pm-5:30pm Optional Participation Workshops……......Locations to be announced

$40.00 (reservation required)

6:30pm Optional Buffet Dinner ………………......Menke House Dining Room

-honoring The Herbal Forum Guest Presenters

$44.84 (reservation required and space is limited)

8:00pm Movie -“If It’s Tuesday, It Must be Belgium”

……..Edythe Bates Old Chapel Saturday, March 17, 2018 6:45am Yoga with Linda Franzo….Artist Residence 3 Common Room Bring your yoga clothes and mat for an early morning stretch.

8:00am-9:00am Breakfast for overnight guests……….......Menke House Dining Room

8:00am-10:00am Check-In ………………………………………….Festival Concert Hall

8:00am-5:00pm Plant Sale…………...…………......West Terrace, Festival Concert Hall

“Thyme Well Spent” Gift Shop ……...…….School Building, Room 9

9:00am Welcome……….……………………………..…...Festival Concert Hall

-Henry Flowers, Herbal Forum Director and

Karen Cornwell, Herb Society of America, Pioneer Unit Chair 9:15am-10:00am “Gingers—Venerable and Versatile ” - Dr. Lois Sutton

……………………………………………...……...Festival Concert Hall An overview of the wonderful array of plants belonging to the great ginger family. This family contains a vast wealth of culinary, medicinal

and ornamental plants and thankfully many will grow in and add beauty

to our Southern gardens.

Saturday, March 17, 2018—continued * Schedule subject to change

10:00am Announcements, Door Prize Winners and Break

10:15am-11:00am “The History and Mystery of the Zingiberaceae Family”

- Gayle Engels

……………………………………………………………...Festival Concert Hall Ginger (Zingiber officinale) and its relatives have been used as food and medi- cine for millennia and, in fact, are some of the earliest examples of food as

medicine. The significance in medicinal use of ginger, turmeric, galangal, and

cardamom co-evolved with their culinary use and their traditional uses have

stimulated numerous studies supporting these benefits. This presentation will

explore safe and effective applications for both traditional and evidence-based

medicinal uses of ginger and its close relatives.

11:00am Announcements, Door Prize Winners and Break

11:15am-noon “Variety is the Spice of Life– Diversifying Your Plant Palette”

—Heidi Sheesley ………………………………………...………......Festival Concert Hall An overview of some wonderful plant treasures to add to your garden.

12:15pm The Blessing of the Garden………………....…..…......Cloister Garden

12:30pm Garden Buffet Lunch …………….…..........Rear Lawn, Menke House (complimentary with registration)

1:45pm-2:15pm “When Good Gardens Go Bad”—Judy Barrett ...Festival Concert Hall

2:30pm-3:30pm “Making Ginger Snap” - Bill McKinley

With special appearance by James Dick, Founder and

Artistic Director of Festival Hill

…………………………………...……………..…Festival Concert Hall Creative flower arranging, incorporating the use of herbs, set to the accompaniment of classical music. Finale piece will be created along with a

live piano piece performed by Mr. James Dick.

3:30pm Closing Remarks

3:30pm-4:00pm Wonderful Ways with Herbs……...………….... Festival Concert Hall Demonstrations by some of our fellow herb enthusiasts of the many ways in which herbs can be utilized—in foods, in crafts, in medicine, and more. Herbs

are highly useful and delightful!

(If you would like to be a demonstrator for this program please contact Henry at henryf@festivalhill.org).

3:30pm-4:00pm Refreshments from the Herb Garden…………..Festival Concert Hall

-Before leaving stop for a final snack, courtesy of HSA Pioneer Unit

and Festival Hill.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE*

Accommodations at Festival Hill

Enhance your experience by staying overnight on the Festival Hill campus. Most

rooms are within easy walking distance of Herbal Forum activities; all have pri-

vate baths and air conditioning. Rates include all linens and a continental break-

fast served in the Menke House Dining Room from 8am to 9am.

For rates and reservations call (979) 249-3129, Monday-Friday 8am-

5pm, or email reservations@festivalhill.org.

For further information on Festival Hill and a schedule of our musical perform-

ances and special events, please visit our website at www.festivalhill.org. The

website also offers wonderful pictures of our campus and facilities.

Cancellation Policy: A 20% fee will be deducted from all refunds requested on or before Friday, March

9, 2018. No refunds will be given after March 9, 2018.

Directions to Festival Hill Festival Hill is located near Round

Top, TX, at the intersection of State

Highway 237 and Jaster Road. For

more detailed information please visit

our website at www.festivalhill.org,

or call our office at (979) 249-3129.

For questions regarding the 23rd Annual Herbal Forum, please contact

Henry Flowers at henryf@festivalhill.org or call / leave a message at (979) 249-3129.

“Thyme Well Spent” Shop -Be sure to visit the Thyme Well Spent Shop in Room 9 in the School Building for hand-

made items prepared by the Herb Society of America, Pioneer Unit. Volunteers have

spent many hours preparing a large array of items that will help to bring the wonder of

herbs to your kitchen, bath, and home.

-We recycle 8 oz. jelly jars and would be glad to receive any that you no longer need.

-In this room there will also be a table of donated garden-related books and magazines

being sold to support The HSA National Herb Garden Internship. We hope that you will

browse this table and purchase an item or two to help support this cause. You are also

very welcome to donate books and magazines. Many thanks!

Our 2018 Presenters

Judy Barrett is a long-time gardener and the editor/publisher of HOMEGROWN: Good Sense Organic Gar-dening, which has been published for 20 years as a magazine and online. She is also the author of several books, including What Can I Do With My Herbs?, What Makes Heirloom Plants So Great? and the newest When Good Gardens Go Bad. She and her husband live in Taylor, Texas. Gayle Engels is the Special Projects Director for the American Botanical Council (ABC) where she has worked since 1995. She currently manages the development and maintenance of ABC’s website, coordinates the development of content on special projects, writes for ABC’s publications, guides its education department and the development of its medicinal demonstration gardens. She enjoys using her Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education from the University of Texas at Austin in a nontraditional educational setting giving presentations to educational groups and plant-oriented organizations, including tours of ABC’s gardens, demonstrations, study groups, and lectures on various aspects of herbs and plant-based medicine. Barbara Hemmer is a retired medical technologist who majored in biology at the University of Texas and Uni-versity of Houston. She is a member of the HSA Pioneer Unit and currently oversees the gardens and Art Dept. at WCHLA in Brenham and the Gazebo during the Herbal Forum plant sale. William (Bill) McKinley AIFD, CFD, ICPF—Bill is the Benz Endowed Chair and Senior Lecturer at Texas A&M University. He shares his enthusiasm for educating others not only through his higher education classes, but also through seminars conducted at state shows, wholesale house programs, garden club workshops and symposia throughout the United States and abroad. Bill is active in the AIFD (American Institute of Floral De-signers), where he has served on their National Board of Directors and is currently the Online Education Ad-ministrator, and also serves on the Education Committee, Educational Partner Committee, International Com-mittee and the South Central Board of Directors. Bill was inducted into the Illinois State Florists’ Association Hall of Fame in 2009 and was awarded the prestigious AIFD Distinguished Service to the Floral Industry Award in 2010. Billi Parus resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband John, where they maintain a large herb garden containing several collections of herbs. She loves to experiment and cook with herbs and lectures on a wide variety of herbal topics all over the country. She stays busy with teaching, running her business, Lavender House, and quilting and smocking. She’s a member-at-large of The HSA, an affiliate member of the Pioneer Unit and is also a Master Gardener and Master Food Volunteer. In 2009 Billi was awarded a Certificate of Achievement from The Herb Society of America. Heidi Sheesley is the owner of Treesearch Farms, Inc. – a wholesale grower specializing in plants for the upper Gulf Coast. Treesearch Farms grows unique and unusual plants including many types of natives, peren-nials, trees, shrubs, citrus, fruit trees, hummingbird, butterfly and other habitat plants for birds and bees. Since 1983, when she decided to turn her love of plants into a commercial venture, she has dedicated her business life to propagating and growing out-of-the-ordinary plants that do well in Houston and along the Texas Gulf Coast. She is committed to education and works extensively with Master Gardener Associations and other organizations to promote water-wise horticultural practices in landscape management. She is a self-described “plant nut”! Boring plants are not in her vocabulary! Lois Sutton comes from a family of avid gardeners and has had a passion for gardening since her early child-hood. She received a Ph. D. from Baylor College of Medicine and was a member of the faculty for both Baylor College of Medicine and Lamar University and a Clinical Director for The Methodist Hospital. She joined The Herb Society of America in 1983 and was an active member of both the South Texas and Pioneer Units. She served HSA as president from 2008-2010 and currently serves on the Society's investment committee and chairs the The Herbarist committee. She and her husband Andy (and three pampered cats) lived in Houston for 35 years and just moved to Asheville, NC a year ago, where she is on the herb garden learning curve again.