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Lavender Fair 2008 click here Lavender Fair 2007 photos click here and here
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Where: When: 9 a.m. -
5:30 p.m. Admission: $5. All children must be accompanied
Directions to La Paix: Please do not visit before the Fair - let us prepare!
1. From Interstate 79 Menu Salad 1:
Tarragon & Green Beans Fleur de Sel, Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette $27. per person Why: For the peace of it! For Events scheduled to date (Feb. 21, 2007) scroll down.
$27. per person
(you may also reserve the full
Stonehouse Farm B & B Stonewall Resort
Eve Ristl****of Left
Fork Farm
Geoff Kraus, of Restaurant 88, Buckhannon, W.V. and private caterer, demonstrates a recipe at the 2005 Lavender Fair.
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June 30th, 2007 Workshops,
Demonstrations, Exhibits
Announcing Lavender
Cookie Contest 2007!
Lavender Cookie Contest Rules The Fifth Annual Lavender Fair & More, to be held at La Paix Herb Farm in Lewis County, West Virginia on Saturday, June 30th, 2007 announces the Fifth Annual Lavender Cookie Contest. Contestants are asked to bring their cookies and the recipe to the Fair for judging. Judges will determine the winning cookie based on presentation, flavor, texture and originality.
Cookie Judges:
Justin Wizard, Innovative
Justin
will show
and tell you how to live better if you are tired of endless bills? House Art Digman, Dowser, returns again
to demonstrate
Peter Gail, PhD. will give a talk Marie Koon, apprentice 2007 at
La Paix, Music with Neal McCloskey,
Jerry Levin (Dugan) and the Duke - Neal explains: Neal with Pete Seeger
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Over 25 booths 15 Talks/Walks/Workshops Scroll Down for list of Workshops/Talks and Demonstrations
To order gourmet luncheon,
click here. Your tickets will be at the Registration Table. Salad 1:
Tarragon & Green Beans Fleur de Sel, Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette Reservations
are required for the Reservations required
Scroll Down for list of Workshops/Talks and Demonstrations to Date See lavender essential oil
Learn how to make
Cooking with Lavender -
Creative Living talks: Chair Massage - Stroll through the Culinary Demos: Geoff Kraus, Chef
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Dare
to Live a Wonderful Life?
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SCHEDULE OF DEMOS, WORKSHOPS, TALKS,
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Robert F. Maslowski, PhD (Wild Mushroom Walk)
1982 Archeology of the Bluestone Reservation. Proceedings: New River Symposium, pp. 185-194. National Park Service, Oak Hill, West Virginia. 1984
Protohistoric Villages in Southern West Virginia. Upland Archeology
in the East, Symposium 2, pp. 148-165. James Madison University,
Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Professional
Organizations American
Anthropological Association (Life) Society for American Archaeology
(Life) West Virginia Archeological Society (Life) West Virginia
Historical Society (Life) |
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Bios for Dr. Peter A. Gail’s presentations Dinner at your Doorstep: Making the Invisible Visible Again by Dr. Peter Gail In Matthew 6:24-35, in the Christian New Testament, Christ asks “Why worry about what you will eat or drink, or wear? Don’t I feed the sparrows and clothe the lilies of the field? Aren’t you more important than they? Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.” This has confused Christians for centuries. For, if He is going to feed us, where IS all that free food? The answer? Right under our feet! Eighty percent of the plants we call weeds are vegetables brought to North America by immigrants as food and medicine. This was often done at the behest of their sponsors, who told them to bring all the plants which are important to them because they were unlikely to find them here. Plants like dandelions, plantain, purslane, and lambsquarters were imported over centuries of time by many different cultures, each of which planted them and used them, and in many cases still use them today. The seeds of these plants escaped, landed where they weren’t known, and got labeled as weeds by those who knew not what they were good for. These traditional wild food plants carried many safely through personal economic, environmental and political crises in the past, and can do it again. They are certainly one very much overlooked answer for helping alleviate hunger. This session reconnects you to these traditional foods and medicines. In this 1 hour presentation, Dr. Gail introduces you to these plants, and to many of the traditional recipes these cultural groups made (and still make) from them. He then shows you what YOU can make from them to delight your family. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Dr. Peter Gail, USA Today’s “Dandelion King,” and Good Morning America’s “Wizard of Weeds,” is at it again. Not content with creating and operating the National Dandelion Cookoff for ten years, he’s now off on a nationwide campaign to fight hunger with “weeds!” Can you believe it? Come to “Dinner at your Doorstep” and see if you can talk him out of it! Longer, more formal bio Dr. Peter Gail is an ethnobotanist who has been studying how various cultures use backyard weeds for food and medicine for the last 43 years. He received his Ph.D. in Botany from Rutgers University and spent 25 years in University teaching and research. In 1988, he founded Goosefoot Acres Center for Resourceful Living through which he conducts seminars and workshops designed to reawaken and reconnect modern Americans to the resources surrounding them, and teach them how to use these resources to provide for their basic needs. His focus is on the properties of common backyard weeds as food and medicine. ABC’s “Good Morning America” called him “The Wizard of Weeds”; USA Today dubbed him “The King of Dandelions”, but he simply refers to himself as the “Dandy Dude” He is the author of numerous books and articles on creative living and edible wild plants, a popular radio and TV personality, and the founder of the National Dandelion Cookoff, held each year in Dover Ohio. His column, On the T rail of the Volunteer Vegetable, was a popular feature in The Business of Herbs for over 10 years, and appears periodically in The Wild Food Forum. California Polytechnic University’s School of Science in Pomona CA named him its Distinguished Alumnus in 1979, and, in 2002, the National Wild Foods Association inducted him into the National Wild Foods Hall of Fame |
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**Jean's
passion for jewelry-making spans three decades. Classically trained
at the Ecole du Louvre, Jean mastered his trade at the benches of
Europe's most prestigious studios where he fabricated works for such
companies as Cartier and Rolex. The Jean Designs
studio, specializing in limited edition works, and symbolic-motif
jewelry collections, was established in 1984 by the artist and his
muse / business partner Leslie.
Jean’s dedication to his craft extends to mentoring several generations of aspiring metal smiths. Complimenting his technical mastery, Jean’s fluid and minimalist designs have won him international awards. Poetry, avidly read in multi-lingual versions, continually fuels this prolific artist’s creative passion. |
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***West Virginia Sustainable
Communities Project: Demonstrations will include: demonstrating easy, no-cost or low-cost opportunities for people at their home or business to save energy and water and reduce waste which will put more money back in their wallets that they would be paying to the utility companies and save our precious environment from pollution. We will be offering conservation products to use at your home or business like compact fluorescent light bulbs, low-flow aerators, and low-flow showerheads. |
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****Biography - Eva Ristl
"So you're starting a farm ... that's very courageous .... without the moon". Eva derives her moon knowledge mostly from the books of Austrian best-selling author Johanna Paungger who, back in 1993, started to write down her grandfather's knowledge. Almanachs, and Chinese philosophy, are a further source for this age old experiential corpus of knowledge, forgotten in the space of a few decades. Many problems could be alleviated by applying these very simple principles. Eva has been studying and applying this knowledge since 1993, especially so since starting their organic medicinal herb farm in 2005. Even her husband has come round somewhat ... seeing the results. Eva trained as a translator, traveled the world in the German Diplomatic Service, has 2 degrees in psychology/psychoanalysis and has translated 2 books and numerous papers in the field. Her greatest interest is healing and nourishment, and she's a Reconnective Healing Practitioner. |
| *****Next, I don’t know if Duke is bringing a blues harp (harmonica), but I am bringing three (C, D, G). The instruments we will play to accompany our singing will be: a 5-string folk banjo, a 6-string folk guitar and a 4-string tenor guitar. These are the exact same instruments played by The Kingston Trio who led the American Folk Revival in the 1950’s. The three of us sing great harmony together perfect for folk music. We have been close friends even before then and love to sing all types of music. We love the music of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Simon and Garfunkle, James Taylor, Carlie Simon, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Peter Paul and Mary, Jimmy Buffett, Otis Redding, The Beach Boys, and The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and everyone else. We don’t have a plan for what songs we will sing, we definitely will take requests, and we love for everyone to join in! Neal McCloskey |
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2005 Fair,
click here
(see previous Fair events. schedule
2005)
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