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During this 300 year span, chocolate spread from Mesoamerica to Europe and Africa.  Once the domain of nobility, by 1850 chocolate was enjoyed by the masses.  Join K.T. Lowe of Indiana University East as she takes you on this fascinating journey. 

Refreshments.  Doors open at 6 p.m., lecture begins at 7 p.m.  Reservations required.

Join chefs Julie Frances of Nectar Personal Chef, Kate Zaidan of Dean’s Mediterranean Imports and Yasel López of Essen Kitchen, as they share their favorite ingredients and techniques, and stew on the broader impact of food and their work. Sample stews from Essen Kitchen, Mediterranean Imports and Soup Cycle Cincy.

Tasting starts at 6 p.m. Panel discussion starts at 7 p.m.

Reservations required.

Slip away from the hectic activities of the holidays with a stop at the Lloyd Library and Museum.  Experience peace and calm when visiting one of Cincinnati’s premier research libraries, explore its latest exhibition, Treasures of Lloyd, and enjoy a cup of hot chocolate and cookies. Holiday cards and unique gifts available in the Lloyd Shop.

 

Free and open to the public.

Usher in the holiday season by creating a unique wreath with botanical elements. This evening workshop has been so popular that we have added a second workshop to accommodate more people.

Registration required. $50 registration fee includes materials and your take home wreath. Members of the Lloyd Library & Museum receive a $5 discount code. Light refreshments. Limited seating.

Usher in the holiday season by creating a unique wreath with botanical elements. This evening workshop has been so popular that we have added a second workshop to accommodate more people.

Registration required. $50 registration fee includes materials and your take home wreath. Members of the Lloyd Library & Museum receive a $5 discount code. Light refreshments. Limited seating.

 

Celebrate the opening of the Lloyd Library and Museum’s latest exhibition, Treasures of the Lloyd, featuring some of the most unique historically significant items from our the Lloyd collections . Return throughout December to view the exhibit. Holiday cards and gifts available at the Lloyd Shop. The 50th guest will win a handmade wreath made from fresh cut evergreens!

Free and open to the public.

Explore the historic origins of plant and animal communities in Kazakhstan, their medicinal uses and how they heal and build the soil. Permaculturist Chris Smyth will also discuss how to apply these practices to build better gardens and forests here in the Ohio Valley.

Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Reservations required.

Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis (Future Retrieval), Lloyd Library & Museum’s inaugural artists in residence discuss their research into Lloyd collections, how that influenced their work in the studio and the creation of the Leaves of Plates exhibition.

Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Registration Required.

Prairies and Tobacco; Pine Barrens and Cranberries; Bottomland Forests and Pecans

In the era before organized food production as we know it, American Indian wisdom of the usefulness and stewardship of the native flora provided a crucial foundation for the building of a new nation. Every American schoolchild knows that the domesticated foods corn, beans, and squash that Indians provided early colonists, kept them from starving; it is less well known that Indians also gave colonists and pioneers tended wildlands with fertile soils and the right conditions for growing food, a system of knowledge for producing the cash crop tobacco that generated income to the colonies and pioneer settlements, and already horticulturally-improved native fruits and nuts, all of which formed the underlying basis for the successful development of a burgeoning new agriculture.

American horticulture is indebted to our Indian-managed biological heritage as the basis for further cultivar development of such important food plants as blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, grapes, pecans, plums, raspberries, and strawberries. This powerful narrative properly credits Ameri-Indian contributions to our modern foodways and argues why we can’t think of “wild” nature as separate from people. The talk ends with pointing out some of the ways that we can bring back this ancient indigenous knowledge and practice, as a conservation strategy to maintain biodiversity, reintegrate ourselves in nature, and revitalize our rural communities.

M. Kat Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California, Berkeley, held the position of Ethnoecologist for USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and is the author of the book Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. 

Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Registration Required.