Connecticut Herb Association (CHA) was created by a group of enthusiasts with a simple desire to educate and share the diverse world of herbs with one another and our community throughout the state, as well as to create a local network of herb-related resources.

CHA has a diverse membership from the practitioner, student, grower, educator, and shopkeeper to the gardener and novice. All of the members of CHA intricately weave a web that forms together one bond, each member lending his or her own energies and expertise to form the organization we now have that reaches out state wide to educate and inform individuals and other groups about herbs and holistic modalities.

CHA serves as a forum for exchange and discussion of matters of importance in the herbal community such as therapies, research, education, workshops, growing, retailing, wildcrafting, herbal supplies, as well as environmental, legal and legislative concerns impacting herbalism.

CHA hosts events and gatherings around the state throughout the year. These include presentations by members and guest speakers, or visits to a shop, garden, farm or wild place where we can learn and share together the wisdom of all things green. As a member of CHA you will have the opportunity to host an event or gathering in your region of the state.

Our website is www.ctherb.com

Our eGroup is http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/CHA/

Contact information for all officers and committee chairs is on the website and in the newsletter. Please contact us with any ideas, comments, questions or concerns. We hope to see you at an upcoming event.

Connecticut Herb Association Events

Open to anyone interested in herbs

February

Tea Blending Mini-Workshop with Rosemary Roast

Join CHA member, Rosemari Roast, for an afternoon of tea blending fun. Together we'll taste the flavors of common tea herbals and explore their synergies when blended together. We'll give extra attention to love blends as well as immune-supporting and mood-lightening blends that support us through the tail-end of winter. Workshop will be followd by a pot luck social.

Members are free, non-members are $10.

When: Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 1:00 pm

Where: Walk in the Woods, 57 Morgan Drive, Winsted, CT

RSVP and Directions: Contact Marlene at 203 272-0471, or goldenspirit133@sbcglobal.net by Feb 23 if you are attending. Facebook users may RSVP here: Directions will be shared at that time.

CHA Needs You

There are many opportunities and challenges in store for the membership this year. It may well prove to be a very auspicious time...new beginnings, new ideas, perhaps even new directions, but always the same mission!

Please email Gail: sagewand2@aol.com if you are willing to serve.

Membership Reminder: The membership year begins June 1. Click here for information and a membership form.

Membership Benefits & Info

Your membership entitles you to Member-2-Member discounts which are offered by several of our business members. The list of members that offer the discount will is included in the directory of members in the members only area of the website and the password will be sent to you. The directory is periodically updated.

Our organization is all volunteer and therefore is only as strong and exciting as our members make it. We hope that you will participate and share your experience and knowledge with the rest of us. Some of the ways you can do that are:

• Write an article for the newsletter. It is published four times annually, mailed to members and is available on our website. Please respect that the work to put the newsletter together is done by busy volunteers - edit and run a spell check on what you write before submitting.
• Join a committee.
• Organize or host a program.
• Send information on programs you are sponsoring or other events that would interest our members for inclusion in the newsletter, egroup or website.
• Share your ideas of speakers or programs that you would like to see or present. What herbs or topics would you like to see discussed at the monthly meetings?