Herb Festival, Spring Plant Sale, and Tomatomania®
Thank you for making this year's event a success.
Check back for 2011 dates.
March 20 and 21, 2010
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: Free with admission or membership
>> Speaker Times - Saturday
>> Speaker Times - Sunday
>> Spring Plant Sale Vendors
>> Herbal Marketplace Vendors 2010
>> Music in the Gazebo
>> “The Birds and the Bees”
 We are happy to announce that Dr. James Duke will be our honored guest at this year’s Herb Festival. He is the author of The Green Pharmacy® Guide to Healing Foods: Proven Natural Remedies to Treat and Prevent More than 80 Common Health Concerns, which was published in 2009. He will give a presentation each day on foods as medicines, featuring spices especially, and will sign copies of his book.
Additionally, there will be guided tours of the herb garden, on-going speakers on garden and herb-related topics, Herb Festival Market-place, the A-Z of Herbs information booths, and the SDBG Spring Plant Sale. Back by popular demand is Tomatomania® with lectures and plenty of hybrid tomato seedlings.
Children's Activites Ages 2 - 12,
Saturday and Sunday, 11 am - 2 pm,
in the Seeds of Wonder Children's Garden.
Explore Dill, Herb of the
Year.
Do crafts, make potpourri ($1), and plant an earth-friendly
sunflower to take home.
DILL
2010 Herb of the Year
Named by the International Herb Association
Anethum graveolens, from the family Umbelliferae
Dill is a versa tile herb, with a wide variety of culinary, healing,
and household uses, as well as a long botanical history.
>> Click here for more about Dill
Speaker Times
Saturday, March 20, 2010
10:00 am
• Larabee House Shana Lipner Herbs for Stress and Relaxation
• Ecke Building Charlotte Tenney Integrating Herbs Into Your Health Plan
• Herb Garden John Noble Herb Gardening — Design and Maintenance
11:00 am
• Larabee House Jack Shoulz Good Bug, Bad Bug
• Ecke Building Lisa Chaddock Cooking With Native Plants
• Lawn area Karen England Dill of the Century! All about Dill, the 2010 Herb of the Year
12:00 pm
• Larabee House Pete Holtzen The Wonders and Benefits of Honey Bees in Your Garden
• Ecke Building Chef Elizabeth Dill: The Perfect Picnic Partner
• Herb Garden Sally Sandler Our Herb Garden: The Magic and The Myth
1:00 pm
• Ecke Building Dr James Duke Spices and Other Medicinal Foods
2:00 pm
• Ecke Building Dr. Robert Bonakdar Herbs For Pain
• Larabee House Staff Instructor From Shakti Rising TBA
• Native Plants/Native People John Finch Plants of Native Americans Native People Who Lived in Coastal Villages
3:00 pm
• Ecke Building Scott Daigre Tomatomania: How to Grow Perfect Tomatoes
Sunday, March 21, 2010
11:00 am
• Ecke Building Tracy Kinnaman An Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture
• Larabee House Steve Schechter Local Therapuetic Herbs For Health and Self Healing
• Herb Garden Luna Rose Is There a Doctor in the House?
12:00 pm
• Ecke Building Julia Dashe Cultivating Resilience: S. D. Roots Sustainable Food Project/Seeds at City Urban Farms
• Larabee House Charlotte Tenney Detecting Herbal Action Through Flavors
• Herb Garden Steve Schechter Learn Therapeutic and Culinary Uses of Plants
1:00 pm
• Ecke Building Dr. James Duke Spices and Other Medicinal Foods
2:00 pm
• Ecke Building Dr. Ze'v Rosenburg Yang Sheng: Nourishing Life With Chinese Medicine
• Larabee House Mary Dralle Pick a Dilly Gravalax: Cooking Fish Without Heat the Scandinavian Way
• Native Plants/Native People Dennis Sharmahd Rare Herbs and Medicinal Trees in the Garden
3:00 pm
Ecke Building Scott Daigre Tomato Culture Tomatomania: Growing Perfect Tomatoes
Medical advice given in these programs is not necessarily the opinion of San Diego Botanic Garden. Consult your physician
or health care practitioner before using herbs, especially if you have a serious illness or are taking other medications.
Spring Plant Sale Vendors 2010
Herbal Marketplace Vendors 2010
- A-Z of Herbal Information
- Candles by Connie
- Coastal Sage Gardening
- Diane Forbes
- Diane’s Herbs
- Edgehill Herb Farm
- Following Seasons
- Fuller Brush
- Herbal Tarot
- Herbal Tea Tasting Booth
- Impeccable Taste
- In Harmony Herbs & Spices
- Keys Creek Lavender Farm
- Lotion Lady
- San Diego Botanic Garden Herb Plants
- Self-Heal School of Herbal Studies and Healing
- The Opera Singing Chef
- Watkins
- Woodturning by Doug
Music in the Gazebo
Bob Ballentine and Friends
“The Birds and the Bees”
Honey Bee Rescue
San Diego Bird Breeders
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