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Common Ground Farm's Mater-n-Melon: A Tasting and Tossing Fest
An exploration of taste and a raucous good time with over 30 varieties of heirloom tomatoes and melons will take place on Saturday, September 15 from 2-5 pm at University Settlement Camp in Beacon (located on Rte. 9D, south of Beacon).
Enjoy live music and bring a picnic or purchase delicious offerings of local, seasonal food. Come into the "backyard" for carnival-style games like seed-spitting competitions, homemade tomato slingshotmaking and Common Ground's own "La Tomatina" a community wide tomato fight. Tastings $5 to $20. All proceeds to benefit Common Ground Farm. For more info go to www.commongroundfarm.org or contact Lisa Jessup at 845- 831-6070.
Common Ground Farm is a farm project that serves the community as an educational model for people of all ages to learn how foods grow, how to raise ecologically sound crops without chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, and how to keep farmland healthy for generations to come. As a working farm, they strive to interpret anew agricultural experience and tradition that is a precious part of our nation's heritage.
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