[Sca-cooks] Pennsic and Lilies plants and plant safety WAS Siege Cooking Contest this morning

[Sue Clemenger]

A virtual siege cooking contest would be fun, since I don't get to 
attend either Pennsic or Lilies....
--maire, still digging out from under the dirty laundry pile from 
MudRising (uh...Uprising...I bet we beat Pennsic rain records last 
Thursday!)

Sharon Gordon wrote:

> ***Oh, sorry, my words "purchased or brought from home" weren't clear.  At
> Lilies the requirements are that you  only see and id the plants on the
> Lilies site.  Participants aren't allowed to actually pick anything at
> Lilies.  For the contest they bring things they got in a store or things
> growing at  their homes that can be safely picked.  So if there are onions,
> roses, and dandelions at Lilies, they might bring onions from the store,
> rose petals from their unsprayed rose beds, rose hips they harvested and
> dried last fall, and dandelion leaves they froze in early spring, or
> dandelion flowers they picked now from their unsprayed lawn.  So the
> participants get a virtual use of Lilies plants and a real use of plants
> from safe places that also grow at Lilies.
> 
> Here on the list we could be all virtual.