It’s time for Oktoberfest. Lee Harrison will speak about The Herb Hops and Brewing Beer at the Old Alabama Town Herb Society meeting 6:00 pm on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at the Loeb Center. Lee, the owner of Fairview Homebrew, sells home brewing equipment and supplies, along with an amazing assortment of craft sodas. A short business meeting will include the vote on changes to the By-Laws and the membership directory will be available. Members will celebrate Fall with their favorite autumnal herbal pot luck dish.
Category Archives: Meetings
September 15 Meeting Agenda
Scarecrows for the Herb Gardens will be the program for the September meeting. Come prepared for a hands-on project to assembly fun, fall, friends. Old Alabama Town has requested more scarecrows because the visitors and school children really enjoy them. Put on your creative hat and bring any extra creative inventory you have on hand. The scarecrow committee will guide us through making the scarecrows to be installed on 26 September. Members bring your favorite herbal pot luck dish, meeting starts 6:00 pm at the Loeb Center, OAT. Guests are welcome. Remember we have a garden clean up date 8:00 am – noon on 19 September.
August 18 Meeting Agenda
Mike Forster will present Planning and Planting the Fall Herb and Vegetable Garden on Tuesday, August 18, 6 p.m., at the OATHS regular meeting at the Loeb Center (301 Columbus Street, Montgomery). The business meeting will include updates on the handbook directory, membership, the gardens, making plans for Herb Day, May 7, 2016. Committees bring your budget requests for the budget committee. Come and enjoy OATHS members favorite August herbal dishes and delights.
July 21 Meeting Agenda
Our next meeting is Tuesday, July 21, 6PM at the Loeb Center (301 Columbus Street, Montgomery). At the meeting we will celebrate with a New Year “Kick-Off” by organizing and jump starting our committees, setting goals for the coming year and we may throw-in a few surprises. It will be a time for reviewing our standard procedures and outlining improvements for the coming year. Cool off by bringing your favorite salad or fruit, dressed up with herbs if you like. We are getting geared up for Fall herb garden planting, Scarecrows in the Garden, and a bigger and better Herb Day. Bring your ideas and your favorite herbal dish. If you are new, or thinking of becoming a member, just bring yourself!
New Officers Installed
New officers installed at the 6/16 meeting, with herbal bouquets of course. New Officers are Sherrie Hamill – President, Barbara Hightower – Vice President, Jean Szabo – Recording Secretary, Maxine Taylor – Treasurer and Marsha Allison – Corresponding Secretary. Sherrie Hamil thanks the outgoing President, Carolyn Gomillion.
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- Thanking the outgoing President, Carolyn Gomillion.
June 16 Meeting Agenda
Our next meeting is Tuesday, June 16, 6PM at the Loeb Center (301 Columbus Street, Montgomery). Please join us for a reception (herbal finger foods, herbal cakes and desserts) as we install and welcome our new officers for the 2015-16 year. Come celebrate and bring your energy, ideas and support for our new leadership as we get off to a busy and fun new year for the Old Alabama Town Herb Society.
May 19 Meeting
The meeting turned out very well – weather was good, we had some new folks interested in joining and it just seemed a pleasant way to celebrate all of our hard work in pulling together a wonderful Herb Day.
New officers were elected:
President – Sherrie Hamil
Vice President – Barbara Hightower
Secretary – Jean Szabo
Treasurer – Maxine Taylor
Corresponding Secretary – Marsha Allison
We are headed for an excellent year!
May 19 Meeting Agenda
We will have a wrap-up from Herb Day and election of new officers while we picnic in the Living Block of Old Alabama Town for our May monthly meeting. (Park on East Jefferson Street and enter at the side gate.).
Members please bring finger foods, guests are welcome and need not bring anything. Rosemary Lemonade will be provided and I will make yet another batch of Rosemary Shortbread. Also, please remember to bring your own lawn chair and any outstanding receipts for Treasurer that require reimbursement.
If you have pictures from Herb Day please forward to Liz McEwan (lizmcewan@gmail.com) with a caption indicating who, what, where and anything else you would like to say.
See you Tuesday at 6pm in the Living Block Herb Gardens!
Fun at the April Meeting
Thanks to all who made it out to the meeting and to all of those who worked so hard to pull it together. I think those Plant ID labels are going to be beautiful in our herb gardens!
Special thanks to Lisa Lenox of Bottle Tree Pottery for showing us the way
and for the finishing – glazing and firing. Lisa, we want you to come on across the street and join the Herb Society!
Thanks also to Sherrie for getting this fun program together for us.
Click on a photo to see a larger version in a slideshow.
April 21 Meeting Agenda
Our April 21 meeting will be a hands on evening of making plant labels from clay for our Herb Gardens. Lisa Lenox of Bottle Tree Pottery at Old Alabama Town, will help us at the meeting and fire the clay pieces for us in her kiln. Join us at 6pm at the Loeb Center at 301 Columbus St.
Flyers and bookmarks advertising Herb Day will be available. Help us distribute them and get the word out!