Folk Kids Mountain Garden Guardians
The Herb Society of America Ozark Unit invites you to celebrate National Herb Day on May 1, 2021 at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Garden tours, herbal hands-on activities and informative conversations with knowledgeable herbal enthusiasts will take place in the Folk Kids Mountain Garden and the park s Workshop Classroom between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. inside the Ozark Folk Center Craft Village.
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Common calendar, Packet papers, April 16
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 16
Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick has launched the Substance Abuse and Addiction Loss Support Group for families who are coping with loss due to addiction.
The free and confidential support group meets virtually on the second Thursday of every month from 7-8:30 p.m.
Inspired by Saint Peter’s Opioid Task Force, the Substance Abuse and Addiction Loss Support Group is for families and close loved ones of people who have passed away from addiction.
The support group is open to everyone in New Jersey and serves as a safe space for families to discuss their grief.
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 9
Common calendar, Packet papers, April 9
Ongoing
The Anshe Emeth Community Development Corp (AECDC) Central Jersey Diaper Bank is collecting baby clothing sizes newborn-2T, diapers and books.
Donations can be picked up if within Middlesex County. Volunteers from the Rutgers School of Nursing will arrive between 10 a.m. and noon on the day indicated.
At this time, no shoes, equipment, toys, etc. can be collected.
Hopewell Theater’s reopening plans will focus on ensuring the comfort of patrons.
Staff members are collaborating with health officials and industry professionals to create a safe environment for a future reopening.
Horseradish has deep roots in world history
‘Bitter herb’ wakes up tastebuds in any number of dishes By Gretchen Mckay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Published: April 7, 2021, 6:05am
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7 Photos When mixed with sour cream, mayo and vinegar, grated horseradish root makes a spicy sauce for roast beef sandwiches. (Gretchen McKay/Post-Gazette) Photo Gallery
PITTSBURGH – Condiments often play a role in elevating a dish’s flavor. Where would a hot dog be without that ubiquitous squirt of ketchup or a ham sandwich without a slather of mayonnaise?
Then there’s horseradish.
No shrinking violet, this long and knobby white root of the horseradish plant snaps the palate to attention when it finds its way into a sauce or spice blend. Hot and spicy, with a pungent odor that gives even seasoned cooks pause, it tastes like a radish on steroids.
– John S.Stokes Jr.
Queen of the Missions, March 1955.
Paradoxically, the very literature and book learning which destroyed the oral religious traditions of the Christian countrysides during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries took it upon themselves to record the disappearing externals of those same traditions in the nineteenth. It is thus secular lexicographers, not religious tradition, that we are to thank for the preservation of many of the centuries-old popular Mary names of plants which have come down to us today. For this reason many religious people unfamiliar with the old religious plant names.
Mrs. Lillie Pioneers
However, it was not from secular dictionaries that the Mary Flower tradition took root and found new life in the United States in the early nineteen thirties. It came as an offshoot from the old popular tradition which still survives in the monasteries and countrysides of England. For it was in England that Mrs. Frank R. Lillie, of Chicago,