The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire (NOFA-NH) is hosting its first annual NH Herb & Garlic Day. The conference features 9 workshops on backyard medicine, an herbal marketplace, and a raffle: NOFA-NH’s 1st Annual Herb & Garlic Day: “Backyard Medicine” Saturday, October 10, 2009 Massabesic Audubon Center, Auburn, NH 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Kick off the leaf-peeping holiday weekend with an herbal extravaganza! This daylong conference will feature herbal workshops and nature walks with some of New Hampshire’s top herbalists. Participants will learn how to identify wild plants, harvest herbs from the garden, make remedies and use plants to enrich their lives and health. The event will feature how to grow and use garlic, too! Throughout the day, the Herbal Marketplace will be open for people to shop for unique, hand-made, local and organic products, herbs, garlic and garlic seed. The event is open to all levels of interest — beginners who are just learning about herbs, gardeners who would like to incorporate them into their gardens, those who grow culinary and medicinal herbs that they don’t know what to do with, experienced herbalists and organic gardeners. This is New Hampshire’s only bio-regional herbal conference featuring all local speakers, and has been planned in conjunction with the New Hampshire Herbal Network. The pre-registration cost for full conference attendance is $35, and is limited to 150 attendees. An all-day vendor fair plus a raffle will be held during the conference. Lunch — featuring local, organic and herbal food — will be available from the Southern New Hampshire University Culinary Arts Program. For more information and conference schedule, visit www.nofanh.org or contact Maria Noel Groves, Conference Coordinator, at (603) 268-0548 or office@wintergreenbotanicals.com. To register for the conference, please use the following link to download and complete the registration form: 09 HGD Registration Form.pdf.