The Herb Society of America, Michiana Unit is dedicated to the preservation and the cultivation of the Stan Beikmann Herb and Sensory Garden within Fernwood Botanical Gardens. Organized in 2004, the club is open to anyone with an interest in herbal gardening.

Garden Workdays and Monthly Meetings

• As a rule the Herb Society works in the garden every Wednesday from 10am onwards and Sundays from 1pm onwards. The amount of time each volunteer works in the garden is up to their own availability, interest and discretion.

• Members who work in the garden should bring their own tools (suggestions would be trowels, hori knives, spades, buckets for debris, water bottles, gardening gloves, comfortable clothing, snacks)

• Many times garden volunteers will each lunch in the Fernwood Café and all members are welcome to join regardless of ability to work in the garden.

• The monthly meetings of the Unit have a set agenda where the organizational business is conducted and also includes 15 minute presentations on the design and progress in different sections of the garden.

New members are always welcome. For more information, contact Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, HSA, Michiana Unit Chairperson at 440-655-0951 or Jeanne Hook, HSA, Michiana Unit Vice-Chairperson at 708-878-5366.