Course Description: Participants will make a full menu from soup to dessert focusing on the use of herbs, both fresh and dried. We will do this in my kitchen in Callahan. Then we will sit down to the lunch we have prepared and enjoy the fruits of our labors.

Instructor: Marge Powell has been an herbalist for over 40 years and an avid plant person her entire life.

Her herbal interests span both the culinary, the medicinal and body care as well as growing herbs.

Marge is a passionate cook and most of her cooking is herb enhanced. She teaches classes in cooking with herbs, making your own medicines, creating lotions and ointments, making soap, and blending scents. She has conducted hands on workshops on these and a variety of other herbal topics across the United States. In 2011 she created Magnolia Hill Nursery which wholesales organic herbs and heirloom vegetables to local garden centers.

She is currently a board member of the International Herb Association (IHA) and the International Herb Association Foundation and is past president of IHA’s former Southeastern Region. She has authored numerous herbal articles published in IHA’s annual Herb of the Year publications. Recently she has begun collecting data on the history of folk medicine in NE Florida and SE Georgia hoping to shed some light on this often neglected and unstudied aspect of herbal lore.

Schedule: 1 session, Saturday, October 3, 2026; 10:00am to 2:00pm

Location: Marge’s home in Callahan. Marge will send directions to participants.

Cost: $60; includes food.

Participants may wish to bring an apron, if they choose.