MT. VERNON — — Those with a passion for plants mingled this weekend at Times Square Mall for the 24th Annual Midwestern Herb and Garden Show.
The show, hosted by the Herbs for Health and Fun Club, featured speakers, classes and more than two dozen vendors spread through the mall’s center court and corridors.
This year’s featured speaker was Deborah Lee, an herbal educator who has hosted more than 4,000 classes in the U.S. and Europe in the last 30 years.
Treasa Brookman, a member of the Herbs for Health and Fun Club and the Home and Community Education District 7 Director, said Lee believes that a clean, healthy global environment begins with personal health.
She said Lee works to create a greater understanding of how to be in greater harmony with the outdoors.
Lee on Saturday gave a talk called “Wild and Free,” about how to find wild edible plants.
“I just have a passion for being outside in nature,” she said. “I was an only child, the only grandchild, and I was always going on walks with my dad and grandfather. We would hunt for morels, and when we would go fishing, we’d find persimmons. I just thought it was so fascinating.”
Lee said she found a couple field guides on wild edibles and “just started trying things,” while on hikes or camping trips. full story
