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2007 HAT ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Join us in "Exploring the 5 Senses With Herbs"
The annual conference of the Herb Association of Texas is
September 14 & 15, 2007.
Join us for a unique two day event where you will taste, touch, smell and feel herbs that you thought you knew well. We will introduce you to ways of using herbs in your home from dawn 'till dusk and into the night.
FOR PRINTABLE FORMS FOR REGISTRATION and to print out all the conference information, PLEASE CLICK HERE. You may also register at the event Friday evening or Saturday morning.
Registration Fee:
Friday Caravan Road Trip: $20.00. Lunch included.
Saturday Conference: HAT Members: $65.00, Non-members: $75.00
Register on-line with our secure system. Just click the button and follow the directions.
If you have any questions or problems with on-line registration, please contact Cindy Meredith, email.
For those HAT Members that are interested in selling products at the Vendor Outlet, you can download a Vendor Application to send in.
For more information, please contact Beth Patterson:
E-mail, Phone: 830-257-6732
FRIDAY starts with a Caravan Road Trip filled with tours of gardens and greenhouses. We start the day with a tour of Ellison's Greenhouses (the highlight being the pick your own Tomatoes Greenhouse).
NEXT STOP, lunch at the tea room of a fabulous destination nursery:
Martha's Bloomers
Then save room for dessert
and a tour of the Blue Bell Creamery
We round out the day with a visit to Festival Hill and a tour of the gardens and greenhouses with the Director of the Grounds, Henry Flowers. We also hope to spend time with Madeline Hill and Gwen Barclay. Volunteer drivers are needed.
If you are willing to help, please call Beth Patterson at 830-257-6732 or e-mail at lavender1@ktc.com prior to Sept. 7.
After the road trip, we return to the Holiday Inn Express to freshen up and explore Brenham for dinner
on your own. Handouts on the various restaurants near by will be handed out prior to the road trip.
Return to the hotel at 7:15 for a reception of light refreshments that are designed to tickle taste buds and a
program that will tickle your other senses as well as your funny bone with a program called "Flavor Quest" with Kathleen Halloran, former editor of Herb Companion Magazine.
We will also discuss the newest books and plants available on the market.
Speakers for the Conference
Saturday, September 15:
Location: Antique Rose Emporium, Brenham, TX
Jim Long of Long Creek Herb Farm
"Ten Wonderful Ways to Eat a Rose!"
Roses as food? You bet!
Much of the world see roses as an herb for flavoring
first and as a flower second. Learn how to turn old fashioned, fragrant
roses into sorbet, hor d' oeuvres, ice cream, beverages, cakes and more.
Taste samples and recipes included.
During the our afternoon program of "Hands On Herbs" , Jim will also demonstrate
how to make Dream Pillows for your very own special dreams. 
Bring your check book, Jim will be have samples of at least 20 of the 25
books he has written.
Also look soon for his recipes in Better Homes and
Gardens magazine from his newest books
"Easy Homemade Crackers Using
Herbs" 
"Easy Dips Using Herbs". 
Samples from his recipes will be
available at the Friday night reception and program.
Diane Lewis
Designing an Herbal Landscape: Herbs for Sight
Learn how to design beautiful,
fragrant, and useful herbs into your existing landscape or new herbal
spaces.
Diane will discuss history; design basics and planning; the roles different
herbs play in the landscape; how to select the right herbs for the right conditions;
compatible hardscape; and theme gardens.
Diane is a horticulture/herb CE instructor at Palo Alto College and teaches herb
classes at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens for NEISD. Diane has presented
herb and landscape design seminars for home & landscape shows, gardening
groups, herb societies, herb farms, and commercial nurseries. She is a designer,
consultant, and instructor with her main focus on herbs, native plants, wildscapes, and xeriscapes. Her
background in the field of microbiology gives her added insight into natural gardening methods and the
science of gardening.
Kathleen Halloran, Former Editor of Herb Companion Magazine
Friday night Ms. Halloran will lead us through a Flavor Quest where participants will have the chance
to explore the herbs they thought they knew so well by sight, smell and touch.
During Saturday lunch we will hear tales for Writing About Herbs and have a chance to ask her questions about getting your articles published and how to create your own unique writing style.
Ms. Halloran has been a freelance writer and editor for most of the last decade. Two and a half years ago she moved from Colorado to Austin, where she now is busy planting and nurturing a new garden and learning to be a Texan. She started journalism in the newspaper business, and after a career as a reporter and editor, she jumped to magazines, mainly because by then she discovered herb gardening. She talked her way into a job at the Herb Companion and was the editor of that magazine for five years, through its heyday, before she struck out on her own. Now she writes and edits mainly for lifestyle magazines, specializing in stories about gardening, cooking and health, which merges her consuming passion for herbs and organic gardening with a lifetime of writing and editing.
Mackenzie Hardy of Florame Aromatherapie
Aromatherapy and Being Kind to The Earth
Explore the world of international aromatherapy with a Registered Aromatherapist with Florame. This
company has a strong commitment to working with organic growers and farmers and providing a high
quality product. Ms. Hardy will be discussing what it takes to become a certified organic product vendor through ECOCERT and COSMEBIO for essential oils and body care products.
For more information, please go to the Florame website.
Hands On Herbs Round Robin:
Conference participants will meet with at least 5 different teachers in 20 minute intervals and have the
opportunity to make and take or just observe a craft with herbs.
We will have a little wiggle room at the end of the day if a project is not completed and you want to return to a station.
At this time the following programs are included:
1. Dream Pillows with Jim Long
2. Mini Soup Wreaths with Cindy Meredith
3. Tussie Mussies with Sherie Clarkson
4. Hand Stamped Herb Cards with Beth Patterson
5. Oil Infused Oil-Speaker TBA
The idea is not only to have fun and get to know your fellow conference attendees in small groups but to go home with an item that either participated in making or made right here at the conference. So roll up those sleeves, get those hands dirty and HAVE FUN!
FOR PRINTABLE FORMS FOR REGISTRATION and to print out all the conference information, PLEASE CLICK HERE
Registration Fee:
Friday Caravan Road Trip: $20.00
Saturday Conference: HAT Members: $65.00, Non-members: $75.00
For those HAT Members that are interested in selling products at the Vendor Outlet, you can download a Vendor Application to send in.
For more information, please contact Beth Patterson:
E-mail, Phone: 830-257-6732
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