 THE WOMEN'S
FESTIVAL
Sunday, May 24th
10am. to 5pm.
Free Admission
The Thyme Garden is hosting our third annual Women's Festival focused on women with businesses as well as their creativity and well being. The Women's Festival was the brainchild of Katherine (Caite) Sagehorn, owner of More Than a Facial in Philomath, OR. Caite wanted to create a space for local businesswomen to showcase their products and services, as well as an event where we could all come together to learn, play and celebrate!
Our vision for the Women’s Festival is to provide a forum for women by women and those that love them: to inform and empower the women of our communities so they may embrace the talents and resources available to them.
FESTIVAL EVENTS
As many as 50 vendor booths will showcase products and services to enhance your health and well-being, adorn and pamper yourself , build your business , and learn about community services available to women ~ see their Vendor Directory for details! There will also be vendor demonstrations and informational talks throughout the day, as well as 4 motivational speakers. The festival will close with a dance movement celebration led by Nia facilitators. See their Event Schedule for details and check the great video of last year's event!
They have a excellent website with all the info you need about the days entertainment, speakers and raffle prizes. Just Click Here.
THE THYME GARDEN TOURS AND LUNCHEONS
 WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US FOR A GROUP LUNCHEON AND TOUR
Our nursery and display gardens are tucked away in the mountains just a short drive from Corvallis Oregon on Highway 34 to Waldport on the coast. The drive alone is worth the trip, taking you past Mary’s Peak, the highest point in the Coast Range Mountains of Oregon.
We will start with a guided tour of our greenhouses, discussion on how we propagate our plants, how our greenhouses work and the plants that are growing in them. After having an aromatherapy experience in our little conservatory where we have collected aromatic and fragrant plants we will stroll through our display gardens and discuss the herbs we see as well as the ones you will have the pleasure of experiencing with your herbal luncheon. The luncheon is peaceful and relaxing as you dine outdoors under the fir trees and absorb all the ambiance nature has to offer, always aware of the surrounding beautiful coast range mountains and the hypnotizing sound of our year round stream that borders this special place. Our nursery offering over 700 varieties of useful plants will be open after finishing lunch for those who would like to take some herbs home with them.
A typical luncheon will include:
A beautiful salad of mixed salad greens, topped with a tapestry
of edible flowers and colorful herbs.
Herbal Teas and our Signature Lavender Lemonade
Three Choices of Homemade Herbal Breads
An array of Herb Butters and Spreads
A main dish such as our Fresh Salmon Baked in Papillote
with a Dill and Caper Sauce
Sauteed Fresh Green Beans with Basil and Pine Nuts
Homemade Herbal Pasta
Finished off with a tasty dessert that has an herb or two in it as well!
(We use fresh wild caught salmon, not farm raised salmon that
has been artificially colored. We also use organically grown vegetables whenever
possible many of which we grow organically ourselves.)
The tour and lunchen normally lasts about 3 hours. The cost is $25.00 per person which includes gratuity and is not refundable. In order that we can give everyone plenty of attention we have to restrict the size of the group to 24. We also require a minimum number of twelve people. Interested individuals or small groups may combine with others to meet the required minimum number. The event is held on Tues, Weds. and Thurs. June, to mid-August.
For more information call (541) 487-8671 or 1-800-487-8670
Email: herbs@thymegarden.com
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 MIDNIGHT in the GARDEN
of
GOOD and EVERYTHING
Saturday August 1st.
7pm. to ????
Appetizers begin around 7pm. Dinner at 8pm.
One of the most awesome evening events of the summer! The evening begins with a memorable experience of strolling through the Gardens sipping a glass of Tyee Wine Cellars premium wine as darkness slowly creeps in and the herbs release their exotic nighttime fragrances. Followed by a delicious herbal feast and live music. After dinner and a round of sinful desserts we will take our traditional night walk through the forest....and....then the fun really begins.
There will also be a campfire with straw bales to sit on and finish off the evening with your friends. Don't miss your only opportunity this summer to experience the other side of the Garden.
$35 Adults
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WEDDINGS AT THE THYME GARDEN
"Make your special day a celebration to remember forever."
 Reserve the Thyme Garden for the most important ceremony of your lifetime! We do everythin we can to make this a celebration to remember. Our gardens and facilities are yours for three days including overnight camping the night of the wedding. We realize family and friends have come a long way to share this special time with you, so we provide plenty of time for set up and celebration. Enjoy the beautiful gardens and surrounding mountains while the sun is up and over 11,000 twinkling lights after dark while sitting around a warm, crackling fire listening to music and visiting friends. The Thyme Garden will also cater your wedding with an awesome feast of herbal delights. You may add to it our Salmon Bake, prepared the traditional way around an alder fire outdoors for your guests to enjoy.
We know lots of great photographers to choose from to catch your whole event for you on film. Below are some examples of two excellent photographers who have worked their artistry at The Thyme Garden. One of them is Robert Crum, Robert Crum Photography, and Maggie Hudson, Honeysuckle Photography . If you would like to see one of the great slide shows they have put together for some of our wedding couples click on the links below....
Liz and Jason
Carol and Stephen
Joanne and Adam
Sun Dappled Designs Floral Arrangements - If you want a very personal touch to your flowers that feature herbs and local organic flowers that are creative and highly imaginative, we highly recommend Bethany Schiminsky of Sun Dappled Designs!
Visit Sun Dappled Designs Webpage
Call us for more information.... 541-487-8671
FALL SALMON CELEBRATION
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
 Our seventhth annual Fall Salmon Celebration is meant to celebrate the return of the Wild Salmon to our streams to spawn. And to establish an annual outing to check on how our new stream, created in 2003 for more spawning beds for the endangered Coho Salmon, has evolved on its course to maturity. To us the return of the salmon is a symbol of how beautiful and complex the fabic of life is on this planet. Showing us how important it is for us to do everything we can to protect all living things on this our Mother Earth. The day starts with appetizers at noon with speakers beginning at 12:45 followed by a guided walk along our stream to see how it has changed since last year and a hands on discussion of the biology of a salmon spawning stream. We will come back to salmon slowly baked outdoors around an alder fire and a Thanks Giving-like feast that would have made the Pilgram’s drool including all sorts of decadent desserts. Premiere wine from Tyee Wine Cellars will have wine to taste and purchase. There will be tents, our big cedar shelter, our indoor facilities, fires and heaters to stay dry and warm. This is an outdoor event though so dress warm and wear outdoor shoes. It also wouldn't hurt to bring an umbrella and protective clothing.
Reservations Reguired $35/Adults $15/Children under 12
SCHEDULE THIS YEARS EVENT
12:00 - Appetizers
12:45 - Speakers:
Rolfe Hagen/Owner of The Thyme Garden, Overview of projects at The Thyme Garden
(Speakers to be announced)
3:15 - Guided Walk Along Our Stream Project with Biologists
4:00 - The Feast
There will also be displays and a 'Stream Board' which is a miniature stream used to demonstrate the effects of a streams hydrology by placing log and woody debris in it.
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 MOTHER’S DAY
CELEBRATION!!!
‘Art in the Garden’
Saturday and Sunday
May 9th and 10th
10am. to 5pm.
Our free annual Mother’s Day Celebration has become our biggest event
of the year. Each year Mother’s Day is a special event at The Thyme Garden.
This year will be our 16th year to carry on the tradition. Once again we will have regional fine art outdoors
for you to enjoy as well as purchase. Many of the artists will be here with their
artwork giving demonstrations. As usual we will be sharing free samplings of
our May Wine, a traditonal springtime drink in Europe made with sweet woodruff,
as well as free herbal treats, including herb spreads and herb cookies. The grilles will be fired up and Chef Jerry 'The Griller Miller' will be preparing our awesome Rosemary Flavored Burgers Stuffed with Feta Cheese. We will
also have great tasting side dishes for sale, all prepared with herbs. Micro-brew Beer will be provided by Oregon Trails Brewery on Saturday. Local wine will
be available Sunday by Tyee Wine Cellars along with live music. Once again festival goers can have fun creating their own Herbal Hanging Basket for mom. Choose three herbs from our nursery as well as three flowers to build your basket for only $12.95. Don’t miss this day
to have fun and take advantage of our huge selection of organically grown herbs and useful plants
and see what’s new for the season.
This years artist include....
Painters - Pam Hough - Beatrice Rubin - Barb Levine - James Rack - Patsy Jones - plus Pegasus Gallery of Corvallis will have a display of paintings from their gallery.
Textile and Clothing Art - Dean and Annie Prosser - Bethany Hagen - Kathy Hill - Sally Graves Jennings
Jewelery - Jeanne Lindsay - Carla Hathaway
Pottery - Darrell Shults - Dave and Gloria Pozniac - Blythe Collins-Niskanen
Garden Art - Cheka Simonton
Handmade Soap - Merne Wilson - Sara Parker
Custom Birdhouses and Etched Rocks - Kathy and Leon McAllister - Mary Glade
Photography - Bud Stout
This years Music will be provide by (Click on their names for links to their site).....
Saturday:
Joan Long and The Music Makers (Old Time Swing Music) - 11am.-1pm.
Chris Estes and Marlene Dickey (Blues and Classic Rock) - 1pm.-5pm.
Sunday:
Joan Long and The Music Makers (Old Time Swing Music) - 10am.-12pm.
Ancient Ways (Marimba)12pm.-1:30pm.
Chayag (Andean Folk Music) - 1:30pm-3:30
Ancient Ways (Marimba)3:30pm.-5pm.
Click here if you want to see photos of the day and info about the great artists who particpate.
Free Admission
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 EARTH
DAY
CELEBRATION!!!
Sunday, April 19th.
10am. to 5pm.
Earth Day and Opening Day for The Thyme Garden happen on the same weekend for us this year. Join us to celebrate this beautiful planet we live on as well as the start of our 20th season. The gardens are a perfect place to start to enjoy the coming spring. Lets cross our fingers it will be a little warmer than last year when we started the day with 6” of snow! That didn’t stop everybody though , lots of people still came and were part of the great energy of new life waking up after a long winter’s sleep. Our nursery will be happening along with our Scavenger Hunt for free plants and a Grand Prize, food and who knows what else we will come up with to make the day special. Free Event
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