BY LISA MIKITKA

Special to The Press

The Parkland Garden Club met June 10 at Jordan Evangelical Lutheran Church, Orefield.

After a tea and social refreshment celebration for new members, the program began with guest speaker, Toni Sweeney, a traditional naturopathic practitioner and founder of New Morning Holistic Health Services.

Her program was titled “Let’s Talk Tinctures.”

Sweeney said tinctures are medicines from plants. She also discussed tea infusions, and decoctions, cooking herbs with boiling water and straining the liquid.

Sweeney provided information on places to buy the plants, as well as books which are used as great resources in using plants and tinctures to supplement supporting the whole body and body systems.

She demonstrated how to make a tincture and discussed the proper storage containers.

Sweeney then discussed different tinctures and their uses.

For more information, visit ParklandGardenClub.com.