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Visitors of Lichtenberg Castle near Kusel will learn everything about herbs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Under the motto “Herbal secrets on Lichtenberg Castle,” guided tours of the medieval herbal garden, herbal hikes, lectures and presentations will be offered.
Cooks of the Culinary County Road will show off their cooking skills and create fine menus using herbs to secure a perfect nutrition and good health.
Together with the Kusel Butchers’ Guild they will offer delicacies including bratwurst and musician’s land steaks. Cakes and coffee will be served as well.
Members of the service center of the local Westpfalz area will talk about “five a day — vegetables and fruit in everyday life.”
The nature conservation association, NABU, will exhibit displays of 2010’s bird of the year, the cormorant, and the medicinal plant of the year, ivy.
Vendors of the herbal market will offer all kinds of herbal products such as vegetable oil, vinegar, schnaps, liquor, marmalade, mustard, soaps and medicinal herbs. Goat cheese, brooms and pottery items will also be available for sale.
Stands are set up where visitors can learn how to use the common garden herbs, how they grow and how they are used for food, drinking specialties, in houses and for wellness and health.
There will also be cooking shows and demonstrations on how to plant herbs in backyards and keep away any pests. Guided tours through the medieval herbs garden will start at 11 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m.
The Modern Swing Quarter and the band Die 3 aus Kusel will entertain the audience from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tickets to the herbal market cost €1.50 for adults; children under 12 are free.
While exploring herbal secrets at the market, organizers suggest also visiting the two museums located in the castle area: the Musicians County Museum and Geoskop, the primeval world museum. Admission fee is 50 cents for adults; children are admitted free.
