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 This Month’s Speaker:  Kristin Jayd-Jimenez  Join us as Kristin Jayd-Jimenez  explains the art of butterfly gardening. South Florida has many  butterfly species, and you can  provide them a home while taking advantage of their natural  beauty. Learn how to give your garden wings!

 Herb of the Month:  Dandelion

 A Look Ahead:

 October 3, 2007: Miguel  Cisneros-Abreu will be speaking.

 Herb of the Month: Rue

 November 7, 2007: Karen Esty returns with her floral waters.

 Herb of the Month: Sage

 December 5, 2007: Holiday Feast!!

 Herb of the Month: Mistletoe

 January 2, 2008

 February 6, 2008

 March 5, 2008

 April 2, 2008

 May 7, 2008

 June 4, 2008


 Meetings are held the first  Wednesday of each month at  7:30pm in the Fruit & Spice Park Auditorium. All members and guests are welcome!  Our Tasting Table, Raffle  Ticket Drawing, and Door  Prize Drawing follow each speaker.

 Monthly Society Project:  Come garden with us! Meet in  the Park at 10am on the Saturday following each monthly  meeting. You get free park  admission and free herbs to  take home. 

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Description: The leaves  grow in a rosette from a  taproot that can reach up to  two feet long. A hollow  stem emerges with the bud, which opens into the yellow  disk of the dandelion  flower. Seeds with white parachutes emerge soon  after, to scatter on the wind. Dandelions grow easily  from seeds.
They prefer  moist to dry soil, in full sun.

Culinary: All parts of the  dandelion are edible. Young leaves can be added to salads as a green. Older leaves  can be cooked like other green leafy vegetables. The  roots can be roasted and ground for a coffee substitute. Flowers can be eaten  raw, cooked, or made into wine.

Medicinal: Dandelions are  highly diuretic, and therapeutic for liver & urinary  tract. They are also full of vitamins and minerals. In  Chinese medicine, they are  used to treat abscesses, mastitis and other infections.

  More about Dandelion:  
•  The blossoms of dandelions are actually made up  of many tiny individual flowers.  
•  Dandelions have been discovered  in some of the  most ancient  archeological finds.
•  Fertility charms often used to contain dandelion

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The following is a list of herbs to grow in your garden to attract butterflies. Females will  search for these Larval Host Plants on which to lay their eggs, as their larvae (caterpillars)  will eat only specific plants. Moths tend to be less specific, so are not listed.

GROW THIS HERB...                    ... FOR THESE BUTTERFLIES.

Apiaceae: carrot, fennel, dill, parsley     Eastern Black Swallowtail

Aristolochia (Dutchman’s pipe)             Gold Rim Swallowtail

Citrus cultivars, wild lime, orange, jasmine     Giant Swallowtail

Bays, magnolias                                  Various Swallowtails (Central & North) 

Passion flower/fruit                              Zebra Longwing, Gulf Fritillary, Julia

Cabbage, broccoli, mustard, peppergrass,  nasturtiums  Various Whites, Cabbage White, Great  Southern White

Cassia, Senna                                        Various Sulphurs

Legumes                                             Various Skippers

Yucca                                                 Giant Skipper

Nettles                                               Red Admiral

Plantain                                              Buckeye

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Leila Werner, as everyone  who attends our meetings  knows, is a fabulous cook.  She is also a founding member of REHS, and was gracious enough to give a demonstration using fresh, seasonal fruits and herbs.

She began with a buttermilk  panna cotta topped with spiced mangoes. Her mango  and cantaloupe salsas went  together quickly and easily,  and provided a sweet and  spicy accompaniment to the  tasting table.

Another quick  and tasty recipe Leila provided was for mango vinaigrette, which she whipped  up in a flash and used to top  a lush salad.

Many thanks to Leila for  sharing her culinary secrets!

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The Teeth of the Lion: The  Story of the Beloved and  Despised Dandelion
by  Anita Sanchez  

Published by McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company

Anita Sanchez is Senior Environmental Educator at the  Five Rivers Environmental  Education Center near Albany, New York. She has written a highly informative  book about the humblest of  garden herbs (often treated  as a weed), the dandelion.

In her easy to read style, she  outlines many of the benefits of this little plant. It is  packed with vitamins and  minerals, full of antioxidants, may help people detoxify and heal from cancer  and other diseases, and is  great at breaking up poor  soil and extracting nutrients  from difficult
soil. Ecologically, it is an important plant in the recovery of damaged  systems, and can serve as a  marker for the health of an  ecosystem. Dandelions also  provide nectar to bees, butterflies, and birds at times  when other flowers are not  blooming.


Ms. Sanchez writes compellingly and simply about this  wonderful plant, letting her  environmental passion shine  through while educating the  reader about dandelions.  She gives many good reasons why the dandelion  should be a welcome visitor  to your garden, rather than  treated as an unwelcome
interloper.

“Man fed on mustard could not be more  sour and insensate.”  -Plautus

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September 8: Vegetable  Gardening, Container Gardening & Unusual Vegetables. 10am-4pm. $35  

October 6: Authentic Thai Cooking. 10am-1pm. $25.  
Held at the Buddhist Temple.  

October13: Authentic Indian Cooking. 10am-1pm.  $25.

October 20: Authentic Chinese Cooking. 10am-1pm.  $25.  

October 26: Hunter’s Moon  Celebration. 7:30pm-10pm. $10 (under 12 free).  

October 27: Tropical Hors  d’ouerves. 10am-1pm.$25.

For more information on  any of these events or to  register, call the
Fruit &  Spice Park at 305-247-5727.  Registration is required for all
classes.   

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All members and guests are  invited (but not required) to  bring a contribution to the  monthly tasting table. For those not inclined toward  the culinary arts, paper  plates, plasticware and beverages are also very welcome.

The tasting table was filled  by: Manny Crump—Banana  bread; Jean Bonnen— Cabbage dish; Kristin Jayd-Jimenez—Rice & peas;  Cheri O’Neal—Banana  Chocolate Chip Bread; Eliat Schmalbach—Brownies;  Tracy Bossinger—Mint tea.  There were many other delicious items that were not  written down as well.



Donations are also encouraged for the raffle table.  Tickets are on sale at the raffle table during each meeting, and are fifty cents  each. Ticket proceeds benefit the Society.  In August, donations were  made by: Manny Crump— Raku flower for garden  decoration; Jean Bonnen— books. 

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