CT NOFA Taste! 2010 is Sept. 19 at Manchester Community College, Great Path Road, Manchester, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $7; children under 12, free.
This annual event is the only local and organic festival in the state, offering a farmer's market, fresh prepared food, live music, sustainable vendors, artisans, workshops.
Free workshops include “Pickling Unusual Vegetables,” “Making Homemade Beer and Wine,” “Bread Making,” ”Extended Season Gardening,” “Top Bar Beekeeping,” “How to Raise a Small Flock,” “Eating from Your Back Yard” and others.
The children’s tent will offer old-time crafts and games, as well as live story-telling and ever-popular hoop dancing. Noontime entertainment will be an out-of-doors performance by ART FARM: playful theater with an environmental theme. Children can also enjoy a pony ride, or join their parents on a free hay ride behind a bio-diesel tractor.
Bridie, the dwarf “backyard cow,” will be present, as well as goats, turkeys and chickens, and working hens in a “chicken tractor.” Local farmers will be on hand, as well as CT NOFA executive director Bill Duesing, who will accompany groups on a “market stroll” through the local vendors and their produce.
Custom-made smoothies with local organic fruits and dairy will be available, along with fresh (local) greens with balsamic dressing.
New Haven’s celebrity chef Bun Lai, owner of Miya Sushi, will also be on hand to give a free workshop on sushi. (Bun’s restaurant was recently named one of the top-ten sustainable restaurants in America.)
More information at www.ctnofa.org or call (203) 888-5146; e-mail, Teresa@ctnofa.org.
