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Events, Gardening

Healthy Soils Seminar at Swansons, June 13th

Sun. June 13, 11:00 am
Healthy Soils create a Heathy Garden for a Healthy You
The nutrition your fruits and vegetables provide you, is only as good as the nutrition you provide your soil. In this seminar, you will receive helpful tips and learn about how you can improve the health of your soils for a healthy vegetable garden and a healthy you! Soil structure and biology of the living soil will be discussed. Led by Gretchen Taylor, organics educator, Dr Earth Company.

Events, Gardening

Lavender Day at Swanson’s June 12th, 2010

Lavender Day at Swansons!  Discover Cooking with Lavender
Sat. June 12, 10:00 am
Growing Lavender
Swansons herb expert, Rolf Hokansson shares tips from his experience and guides you through the enticing list of lavender varieties available. Whether for cooking, aromatherapy or cocktails Rolf will help you with selection and growing techniques for this favorite herb.

Sat. June 12, 11:00
Discover Lavender: Fragrance, Beauty, Flavor & Taste
Kathy Gehrt will share her knowledge about harvesting and cooking with lavender. Lavender adds color, fragrance and beauty to your garden. In the kitchen, lavender adds flavor to drinks, pastries, salads, soups and entrees. Kathy will demonstrate how to dry roast lavender to create a rustic, earthy taste that brings out the best in vegetables, salmon, halibut, chicken and beef. In addition, Kathy will demonstrate how to create lavender infusions and lavender seasoning blends.