Just back from a wonderful IHA conference in Corning, New York and I want to take you on a quick tour of a few highlights from our field trip: Finger Lakes Distilling; Cornell Plantations; L.
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Our IHA pre - conference duty tour was a full , playfulness and educational twenty-four hour period visiting garden , a hortorium , a still , and pharmacist from corn to Ithaca , New York . It was the perfect manner to kickoff a large conference ( www . Iherb.org).Our first stop was Finger Lakes Distilling , where we had a duty tour from two fine-looking and knowledgeable young men of their mathematical process begin with the storage hopper of metric grain , though the stillroom and age elbow room and then onto the taste way in the workshop . Their spirits are made from their own grapevine and local grains and botanical and are mellow - quality products . ( www.FingerLakesDistilling.com ) In a jovial humour , we headed from there to Ithaca where we visited the Ithaca Apothecary where we enjoyed a variety of herbal tea samples and browsed the herbs , teas and love sold there . ( www.DowntownIthaca.com )
We arrived at Cornell Plantations , where we had a cinch - stylus tiffin under one of the pavilions there . It was located a short manner of walking from the Herb Garden , where we lead for a walkabout . This is a adorable and well - maintained garden with a huge variety of herbaceous plant plants from trees and shrubs to container grown specimen . There was quite a bit of oohing and aahing and photographic opportunity of native and spell plant . ( www.CornellPlantations.org )

For those of us capable and unforced , we hiked up a outrageous hillside to the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium . It was well worth the hot wage increase uphill . The Hortorium houses an enormous collection of botanical specimens and ancient herbals . We were divided into two groups - one to speak about the hortorium and reckon specimen - and the other induce to see some of the wonderful erstwhile publications , which were truly exquisite . Some were flyspeck and some were quite expectant with color plate that still sustain shockingly bright vividness . ( www.BHort.bh.cornell.edu )
From there , we heap on the bus and headed for Healing life Herb Farm ( www.HealingSpiritsHerbFarm.com ) . Once there , we disgorge off the motorbus amongst rainwater cascade and some braved the outdoor garden tours , while others visited the apothecary shop and a number of us went to the b and gear up on the porch overlooking some of the gardens . The b had mesa and chair set up up with tablecloths and chair back and corsage of herbs and wildflower on every table . We had a yummy dinner party there with all sorts of herbaceous plant and veggie salad , roasted ( just dug ) potatoes , grill chicken and homemade elderberry vino . To complete the celebration , a local barbershop IV serenaded us at the end of this fun - filled solar day . I highly advocate visit all of the aforementioned place if you are in the area - they are worth need a roundabout way .
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Finger Lakes Distilling grows their own grapes to prepare some of their amazing spirits. They get their corn and rye from local farms in NY.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger



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