Explore how to incorporate and use aromatic plants in your garden, your kitchen and throughout your home with Linda Shanahan and Eric VanderHyde of Barefoot Botanicals. Barefoot Botanicals is a labor of love for VanderHyde and Shanahan, bringing together their combined years of experience in herbalism, nursing, engineering and agriculture.

Having grown vegetables, flowers and herbs for over a decade, they now specialize in certified organically grown medicinal and culinary herbs. Barefoot Botanicals provides herbal medicine makers, manufacturers, chefs, brewers and bartenders with fresh, dried and freshly distilled aromatic and medicinal plants as well as herbal cocktail syrups.

Find their products online at www.barefootbotanicals.net, retail natural food stores and at area farmers markets in Philadelphia, Ottsville, Doylestown, Wrightstown and Yardley. 

Designed for the home and hobby gardeners as well as horticultural professionals, the Ambler Arboretum Horticulture Lecture Series, presented by regional experts, will inspire participants while challenging their way of thinking about horticulture.

Program registration begins at 6:30 p.m., the presentation begins at 7 p.m. and Q&A follow at 8 p.m.