Herbs are a healthy way to introduce new flavors into your diet, new fragrances into your home and add texture to your garden. This course will discuss growing, collecting and preserving techniques for all kinds of herbs and offer suggestions for using herbs in cooking. This is a University of Illinois class presented by a Kane County Master Gardener.

The Northern Illinois Food Bank provides 250,000 meals a day though a network of pantries and feeding programs across 13 counties in Illinois. Join LLI as we tour the West Suburban Center in Geneva to learn how the Northern Illinois Food Bank was started in 1983 and what all it is doing today to bring people together to solve the problem of hunger. A tour of the facility will be provided along with an opportuntiy for the group to do a service project.

Participants will meet at the Northern Illinois Food  Bank, West Suburban Center, 273 Dearborn  Court, Geneva, IL 60134