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When: Saturday, October 23, 2010 - Sunday, October 24, 2010 from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Fairchild’s Edible Garden Festival Featuring the Scarecrow Contest

Learn how to grow, prepare and enjoy  vegetables, fruits and herbs grown in your own garden - what could be more fulfilling?  The Edible Garden Festival will feature gardening lectures, workshops, plant sales, cooking demonstrations and more. 

Please cast your vote for your favorite guardian of the garden in our Second Annual Scarecrow Contest. One hundred percent of all entry fees, ballot sales and donations from the contest will benefit the Fairchild Challenge Satellite Program. A $1 donation will allow anyone the opportunity to vote on their favorite. Get your ballot at the tram plaza, garden house loggia or any of the entrances and information kiosks.

Download a pdf of the full program here.

Follow our vegetable gardening blog from the Fairchild Farm.

Saturday Oct 23:  Lectures and Workshops

Garden House

10:00 a.m.  Don’t Forget the Fruits, Noris Ledesma       

11:30 a.m.  How to Start your Fall Veggie Garden, Adrian Hunsberger

1:00 p.m.    Container Gardening: Solutions for small space gardening
                     William Moss, Host of HGTV show 'Dig In'

2:30 p.m.    Organic Vegetable Gardening, Andres Mejides

Corbin A         

10:00 a.m.   Rain Barrel and Compost Workshop (until 12:00 p.m.)
                      You must pre-register for this workshop.

2:00 p.m.     Cheese Making Demonstration, Hani Khouri       

4:00 p.m.     Real Food and How To Get It, Martha Kenyon

Gardening Demonstrations-Next to Butterfly Garden

10:30 a.m.  Slow Food School Gardens Workshop

12:30 p.m.  Growing Great Soil with Compost and Amendments, 
                     Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton, Lanette Sobel

3:00 p.m.    Easy! Square Foot Gardening, Pam Molnar

Cooking Demonstrations-Whole Foods Cooking Tent, Main Lawn

11:30 a.m.  Tuna Poke with Cumin Crisp
                     Matt McCormick, Seasons 52                       

1:30 p.m.   Green Garden Enchiladas
                    Adri Garcia, Mercy Capote, Edel Corrales
                    Greenrocks Foods, LLC.  Mise en Place, LLC.

Book Signing

11:30 a.m. Georgia Tasker will talk about and sign copies of her book, 
                     Gardening With Kids

The Fairchild Farm's Fruit Market

There will be fruit smoothies and fresh avocados, carambolas, canistel and sapodillas along with delicious honey, Mamea americana jelly, mango chutney, Seminole pumpkins and seeds, dried mango, dried carambola and soaps.

More

Gardening Q& A table: Leatrice Linden, Master Gardeners

Kids' Activities

In the Learning Garden area, near the Butterfly Garden: 

Music for kids 

1:00 pm       “In the Nick of Time!”, Dance, sing and strut your stuff to the sounds
                       of Mr. Nick’s Coconut Groove! Miami’s own rock star for the
                       younger crowd!  

Help us make Miami’s biggest salad with Short Chef!

You’ve seen him on TV, now see him in person! Short Chef immerses kids (almost literally) in healthy foods, making salads so big they are tossed with boat oars! Try his kid-friendly PBB&J sandwich--hmm, wonder that extra “B” stands for?

12:00 p.m.     The Big Salad
2:00 p.m.       PBB&J 

Families love to garden together! Science, nutrition, nature, exercise- so many good things come together in the garden! Stop by the Chickee all weekend and see our volunteers for kids’ gardening resources.

Sunday Oct 24: Lectures and Workshops

Garden House

10:00 a.m.  What do I grow and How do I grow it?
                     Herbs and Veggies with Carolyn Coppolo

11:30 a.m.  Tomato time! Beefsteaks are BORING!  Margie Pikarsky           

1:00 p.m.    Growing up with Gardening, Richard J. Campbell, Ph.D.

2:30 p.m.    Your Edible Organic Garden, Ben Thacker

4:00 p.m.    Permaculture 101, Cassidy Fry                       

Corbin A 

12:00 p.m.   Urban Food Forests, Marion Yanez

2:00 p.m.     Growing Tabletop Salad Greens, Sprouts, and Wheatgrass, 
                      Keith Seidler      

Gardening Demonstrations-Next to Butterfly Garden

10:30 a.m.   Drip Irrigation Workshop, Muriel Olivares 

12:30 p.m.   How to Make a Raised Bed Garden, Urban Oasis Project

3:00 p.m.     Intensive Vegetable Gardening, Dylan Terry   

 Cooking Demonstrations-Whole Foods Cooking Tent, Main Lawn         

11:00 a.m.   Raw Food Cooking with Healing Through Nutrition
                      Loren Pulitzer

12:30 p.m.   Cooking Begins in the Garden
                      Norman Van Aken and Justin Van Aken, Norman’s 180     

2:30 p.m.      How to Cook with Fresh Herbs
                       Lori Hollander                 

Book Signing

11:30 a.m. Georgia Tasker will talk about and sign copies of her book, 
                     Gardening With Kids

The Fairchild Farm's Fruit Market

There will be fruit smoothies and fresh avocados, carambolas, canistel and sapodillas along with delicious honey, Mamea americana jelly, mango chutney, Seminole pumpkins and seeds, dried mango, dried carambola and soaps.

More

Gardening Q& A table: Leatrice Linden, Master Gardeners

Kids' Activities

In the Learning Garden area, near the Butterfly Garden: 

Music for Kids 

1:00 p.m.    Michael Malone and John Robataille will play fun music just for kids.

Help us make Miami’s biggest salad with Short Chef!

You’ve seen him on TV, now see him in person! Short Chef immerses kids (almost literally) in healthy foods, making salads so big they are tossed with boat oars! Try his kid-friendly PBB&J sandwich--hmm, wonder that extra “B” stands for?

12:00 p.m.     PBB&J
2:00 p.m.       The Big Salad 

Families love to garden together! Science, nutrition, nature, exercise- so many good things come together in the garden! Stop by the Chickee all weekend and see our volunteers for kids’ gardening resources.

Admission: Free to Fairchild members and children 5 and under. Non-members: $20 for adults, $15 for seniors 65 and up and $10 for children 6-17. If you ride your bike, walk or use public transportation, admission is $15 for adults and $8 for children.

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