Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Here's one I really hope we can make, in Santa Fe, esp since we're growing 
perennial culinary herbs now through the winter for next market season.

Ed, do you happen to know this Rand Lee in Pecos? Anyone else here in driving 
distance who might attend?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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The Herb Society of America, Sangre de Cristo Unit presents
Santa Fe Herbfest 2010

Saturday, April 17
9:00 AM Registration, coffee and herbal snacks
9:30 AM Welcome – Maggie Rubino, Sangre de Cristo Unit Chair
9:45 AM Herbs in the Western Cottage Garden – Rand B. Lee
Rand B. Lee is a garden writer, lecturer, and design consultant who has lived 
and worked in northern
New Mexico since 1987. Rand's writing has appeared in national gardening 
magazines such as The
American Gardener, The Herb Companion, and The Herb Quarterly, and he is the 
author of one book,
Pleasures of the Cottage Garden, now out-of-print. Rand lives in Pecos with 
his Siberian husky,
Blessing, his black cat, Urdwill, and many garden-chomping wild bunnies.
11:00 AM Cold-set Herbs and Greens: Recipes and Gardening Tips and Tricks for 
Hardy
Annuals and Perennials– Deb Whittaker
Deb Whittaker is a culinary herbalist, instructor and certified laughter yoga 
instructor from Denver,
Colorado. She is a frequent public speaker at herb and garden conferences and 
garden writer on
herbs, sustainability and body/mind/spirit connection with articles appearing 
in Colorado Gardener,
Edible Front Range, and The Herb Companion. Her goal is to bring back the 
conviviality of food
through easy, healthy, delicious cuisine.
12:15 PM Herbal Lunch
1:15 PM A Garden to Dye for…Madder and More – Ric Rao
Ric Rao has been involved in fiber arts for more than 35 years. He started 
raising sheep in New Jersey
in 1975. In 1978 he moved his flock of sheep & dairy goats to northern Texas. 
He learned how to spin
the yarn, then learned about natural dyes and in the early 1980’s he learned 
how to weave. Eleven
years ago he moved to Las Cruces. He started his dye garden in 2000 and it 
was showcased on the
PBS Series "Southwest Yard & Garden," under the subheading "Innovative 
Gardeners," in the fall of
2002. Since then his dye garden has expanded as he experiments with more 
natural dyes.
Herbal products will be for sale before and after the program. For 
information about hotels and motels in the
Santa Fe area please see www.santafechamber.com or call (505) 988-3279. For 
general information or
questions about registration, please call Susi Kalat at (505) 988-5813 or 
Barb Mann at (505) 249-6435.
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Santa Fe Herbfest 2010 Registration Form
Cost is $45 per person, which includes an herbal lunch.
Advance registration is required as space is limited. Registration deadline 
is April 9.
Name __________________________________ Phone 
_________________________________
Street __________________________________ Email 
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City ____________________________________ Lunch preference:
State and Zip _________________________ Regular __________Vegetarian 
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Please mail registration form and check for $45 made out to Sangre de Cristo 
Unit, HSA to
Sangre de Cristo Unit, HSA
103 Sunflower Drive
Santa Fe, NM 87506