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TITLE: 20th Annual Great Tomato Tasting TOMORROW IN CLINTON
What: Great Tomato Tasting
Where: Snyder Research and Extension Farm, 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, Hunterdon County, NJ
When: Wednesday - Sept. 1, 2010 3pm - dusk (RAIN OR SHINE)
Registration
: $5.00 per person (collected at event), children under 10 are freeRSVP please: Online https://njaes.rutgers.edu/rsvp/tomato ; phone 908-713-8980
Rutgers University, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension proudly announce the Annual Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting, to be held on Wednesday September 1, 2010 from 3 pm - dusk. This year’s event includes the very popular tasting of both heirloom and hybrid tomatoes and wagon tours of the farm’s research plots. The afternoon will also include tastings of sweet peppers, cucumbers, herbs, apples and peaches – all with the assistance and guidance of Rutgers NJAES Master Gardener volunteers from the surrounding counties. The Melda C. Snyder Teaching Garden will showcase garden displays of deer tolerant ornamentals, plants that can attract beneficial insects to your garden, the Rutgers holly and blueberry breeding programs, columnar varieties of fruit trees for the home landscape and award-winning
Jersey Grown™ daylilies.Wagon tours led by faculty and farm staff will be available throughout the event, highlighting Rutgers NJAES agricultural research. Rutgers NJAES faculty, staff, and Master Gardener volunteers will be available throughout the event to answer your gardening questions and to make your visit to our research farm a pleasurable and memorable one. More fun activities are planned so bring your camera.
Please bring non-perishable canned food items to support the
Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) program, http://rah.rutgers.edu/More information can be found on our website - www.snyderfarm.rutgers.edu
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