{"id":13613,"date":"2025-07-09T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:42:05","slug":"beginners-session-to-learn-about-and-visit-the-umes-herb-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/connections\/beginners-session-to-learn-about-and-visit-the-umes-herb-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners session to learn about and visit the UMES Herb Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/TGD-Medicinal-Herbs-073124-3652-1024x528.jpg\" alt=\"Herb specialist Henriette den Ouden, left, offers a lesson in growing, harvesting and processing the plants.\" class=\"wp-image-13614\" style=\"width:318px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/TGD-Medicinal-Herbs-073124-3652-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/TGD-Medicinal-Herbs-073124-3652-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/TGD-Medicinal-Herbs-073124-3652-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/TGD-Medicinal-Herbs-073124-3652-1536x792.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/TGD-Medicinal-Herbs-073124-3652-2048x1055.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Summer blooms are on vibrant display at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Herb Garden. Herb specialist <strong>Henriette den Ouden<\/strong> <em>(far left)<\/em>  is offering a free guided walk through the garden Saturday, July 26, to learn about medicinal herbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants will experience the herbs by seeing, smelling and tasting them, she said. The visit also includes a classroom session on the basics of growing, harvesting and processing the plants, as well as challenges and the types of products that can be made with medicinal herbs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Herbs-Baikal-skullcap-close-up-6-2021-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"Herbal plant Baikal skullcap\" class=\"wp-image-13617\" style=\"width:196px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Herbs-Baikal-skullcap-close-up-6-2021-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Herbs-Baikal-skullcap-close-up-6-2021-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Herbs-Baikal-skullcap-close-up-6-2021-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Herbs-Baikal-skullcap-close-up-6-2021-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Herbs-Baikal-skullcap-close-up-6-2021-2048x1638.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The hands-on experience is open to beginners, garden enthusiasts and small farmers. It takes place from 9-11:30 a.m. at the UMES Research, Extension and Teaching Farm just south of campus. The event is free, but pre-registration is required for each participant by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/extension\/small-farms-program\/events\/\">www.umes.edu\/extension\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to introduce potential local growers to herbs and the value-added products that can be produced,\u201d said den Ouden, a UMES Extension agent associate. \u201cAt the end of the program, participants should have an idea if herb growing is right for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gail Stephens, agricultural communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension,<\/em><a><em> <\/em><\/a><a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\"><em>gcstephens@umes.edu<\/em><\/a><em>, 410-621-3850.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photos by Todd Dudek, agricultural communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension, <\/em><a href=\"mailto:tdudek@umes.edu\"><em>tdudek@umes.edu<\/em><\/a><em>. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer blooms are on vibrant display at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Herb Garden. Herb specialist Henriette den Ouden (far left) is offering a free guided walk through the garden Saturday, July 26, to learn about medicinal herbs. Participants will experience the herbs by seeing, smelling and tasting them, she said. The visit also&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/connections\/beginners-session-to-learn-about-and-visit-the-umes-herb-garden\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Beginners session to learn about and visit the UMES Herb Garden<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":45,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,164],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-july-2025-connections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}