Learn to incorporate herbs into your garden April 5

GILFORD — Interested in learning more about incorporating herbs into new or existing gardens and/or containers? Join the Opechee Garden Club, as Sarah Marcoux, presents a better understanding about the propagation and growing habits of available herbs, as well as some which are harder to find. An overview of environmental conditions necessary to grow herbs will also be addressed. The use of culinary herbs is included in the presentation.

Sarah Marcoux says that she and her husband Dan have encouraged their four children ages 14 to 21 “to give back to the community and cultivate a lifestyle of service to others.” Both are longtime, homeschooling parents.

Sarah, and her then 18-year-old son, Joseph, became master gardeners in fall 2016. They have been volunteering for the Free Seeds for Education program since late summer 2018. They helped collect and sort seeds, address envelopes, and package orders. The Free Seeds group sent out 515 orders of 10 seed packets each in 2021, working from home, due to the pandemic. In recent years, the mother-son team also built a pollinator garden at Southwick Elementary School in Northfield where the Marcoux's live, and have worked at local farmer’s markets staffing an Ask A Master Gardener table.

The presentation will take place during Opechee Garden Club’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 5 at 1 p.m. Meetings are held at the Gilford Community Church, Potter Hill Road, Gilford. The public is invited to attend.