A Taste of Local

Adirondack Harvest is soon to be celebrating the fall harvest season with their annual Adirondack Harvest Week, comprised of farm tours and events illuminating the benefits of purchasing and consuming local food. The week long schedule will provide consumers with opportunities to meet farmers, visit farms, and taste local products.

As the kick-off to Adirondack Harvest's Festival Week, the Adirondack History Center Museum will be hosting a new food festival, A Taste of Local, on Saturday the 15th. Restaurants, chefs, and culinary artists will be showcasing their favorite appetizers, entrees, desserts or other prepared items featuring local foods. A variety of small portions of selected food are to be served at the festival. The event is free to the public with $1 tickets being sold to pay for food tastings.

The Museum will have free admission for the day, displaying the award winning Worked/Wild exhibition, the Raging Rivers Exhibit, the Cabin by the Creek exhibit, and an updated Fire Tower exhibit. Mountain Lake PBS and Adirondack Harvest documentary film Small Farm Rising will be shown. Exhibitors will offer information about local food growers, food preservation and canning, community gardens, and garden resources. The Festival will also include an Apple Desert Contest.

Other Harvest Week events include Farmers, Friends & Food, a farm tour and potluck dinner at Ben Weaver Farm; Forest and Farm, a localvore brunch and trail hike at DaCy Meadow Farm; Sugarbush Farm Annual Pig Roast; and the Fifth Annual Great Rutabega Festival in Keene.

For more information about events: www.adirondackharvest.com /events-projects.html 

 Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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ESSEX COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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