All About Thyme: September 2024

Finding More Greenspace in Your Life

September's Special Days: A Potpourri of Celebrations

Herb of the Year for 2024.  Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). Selected by the International Herb Association
Flower of the Month for September: Aster
September is Better Breakfast Month

Week 1
September 2. Labor Day, also World Coconut Day
September 7. National Acorn Squash Day. Squash is the short form of the Narragansett askutasquash. With corn and beans, a Native American food staple.
September 8. Our planet isn’t always kind. Today in 1900, the Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest (some 8,000+ fatalities) in American history.

Week 2
September 9. Today in 1850: California became a state. The state flower: the California poppy, long used as a sedative.
September 14. In England, the traditional time for the hops harvest. The first hop garden seems to have been planted near Canterbury, in 1520, when brewers began to prefer hops to the herbal gruit—dandelion, burdock root, marigold, horehound, ground ivy, and heather—they previously used to flavo…