Connecticut Herb Association
The focus of the Connecticut Herb Association is to educate and share the diverse world of herbs with one another and our community.
Connecticut Herb Association (CHA) was created by a group of enthusiasts with a simple desire to educate and share the diverse world of herbs with one another and our community throughout the state, as well as to create a local network of herb-related resources. CHA has a diverse membership from the practitioner, student, grower, educator, and shopkeeper to the gardener and novice. All of the members of CHA intricately weave a web that forms together one bond, each member lending his or her own energies and expertise to form the organization we now have that reaches out state wide to educate and inform individuals and other groups about herbs and holistic modalities. CHA serves as a forum for exchange and discussion of matters of importance in the herbal community such as therapies, research, education, workshops, growing, retailing, wildcrafting, herbal supplies, as well as environmental, legal and legislative concerns impacting herbalism. CHA hosts events and gatherings around the state throughout the year. These include presentations by members and guest speakers, or visits to a shop, garden, farm or wild place where we can learn and share together the wisdom of all things green. As a member of CHA you will have the opportunity to host an event or gathering in your region of the state. Our website is www.ctherb.com Our eGroup is http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CHA/ Contact information for all officers and committee chairs is on the website and in the newsletter. Please contact us with any ideas, comments, questions or concerns. We hope to see you at an upcoming event. Membership Reminder: The membership year begins June 1. Click here for information and a membership form. Membership Benefits & Info Your membership entitles you to Member-2-Member discounts that are offered by many of our business members. The list of members that offer the discount is included in the membership directory and in the members only area of the website. CHA Needs You There are many opportunities and challenges in store for the membership...new beginnings, new ideas, perhaps even new directions, but always the same mission! Our organization is all volunteer and therefore is only as strong and exciting as our members make it. We hope that you will participate and share your experience and knowledge with the rest of us. Some of the ways you can do that are:
Please email Gail: sagewand2@aol.com if you are willing to serve. |
Connecticut Herb Association EventsOpen to anyone interested in herbs
MayHolcomb Farm Herb Garden Cleanup Work Party Holcomb Farm brings together so much that is special about Connecticut. It's a historic property in West Granby, once lovingly tended by generations of the same family of farmers. Rolling hills and open pastures are home to a variety of wildlife from black bears to bob-o-links. The CSA provides produce not only to the local community but inner city communities as well. The barns and buildings provide the framework for community events, programs and meeting space. This is where CHA will hold our annual Herbfest celebration this year. When: Sunday May 20, 2012 from 10:00am - 1:00pm Where: Holcomb Farm, 113 Simsbury Road, West Granby, CT RSVP and Directions: For more information, contact Marlene at 203 272-0471or goldenspirit133@sbcglobal.net JuneFort Hill Farms Tour
Fort Hill Farms is your three-season family destination. Enjoy a Spring tour of the wonderful Quintessential Gardens including one of the largest lavender displays in New England. Summer brings pick-your-own organic blueberries and exciting events like our Blueberry & Bluegrass Festival. Cultivating a place of peace. Quintessential Gardens offers unusual varieties of home-grown perennials, and perennials that don't take a lot of care, and perennials that hardly need any water. We will take the time and explain how to keep your new organic plants growing healthy and free from pesticides and herbicides. When: Sunday June 17, 2012 from 11:00am - 2:00pm Where: Fort Hill Farm, 260 Quaddick Road, Thompson, CT RSVP and Directions: For more information, contact Marlene at 203 272-0471or goldenspirit133@sbcglobal.net by June 3rd. JulyAcorn Herbals Garden Tour The gardens at Acorn Herbals include a variety of culinary and medicinal herbs, flowers, trees, shrubs and vegetables. Debra uses the landscape and available materials to design gardens and allows the native as well as not so native plants space as well. She will lead a weed walk and participants can wander on their own to look through the various garden environments. A discussion of the medicinal use of the weeds, including invasive species will take place over picnic lunch. Debra has plenty of room inside so this activity will take place rain or shine. She will also have plants to share. When: Sunday July 8, 2012 from 10:00am - 12:00pm Where: Acorn Herbals, 404 Woodland Road, Storrs, CT 06268, Phone 860 487-9444 or 860 428-2541 RSVP and Directions: For more information, contact Marlene at 203 272-0471or goldenspirit133@sbcglobal.net |
Come
join the fun as we help a good cause, get a little dirty, and enjoy
each other's company. Garden cleanup is 10:00-noon followed by a potluck
picnic. The event is free, however a food or drink for the potluck
picnic would be appreciated.
Join
us for a Fort Hill Farms Tour with lavender and blueberry picking,
and a picnic. CHA members free, non-members $15. 
Debra
Hultgren of Acorn Herbals will host a tour of her gardens and woodlands
with a focus on weeds and their uses. The tour will be followed by
potluck picnic at Acorn Herbals. CHA members free, and non-members
are $15.