Archive for September, 2010
Some Like It Hot- Tomato Festival to Include the Hottest Pepper on Earth! Tomorrow!
!!!THE FORECAST IS FOR RAIN BUT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD INDOORS IN THE NEW CONFERENCE CENTER AT BRADFORD!!!
Tomorrow, Thursday September 9, from 4 to 7:30 PM, Bradford Research and Extension Center will host the annual Tomato Festival. This family event will feature more than 50 different kinds of tomatoes that include popular garden types and the old varieties that our grandparents grew (heirlooms).
This year the festival will include the hottest pepper on earth–the Bhut jolokia–in 10 different salsas to sample. Think you can handle a pepper that is four times hotter than the habanero????? Try it and see!
The 6th Annual Tomato Festival at
Bradford Research and Extension Center
When: 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday Sept 9
Where: 4968 Rangeline Road. Directions: Go east on Broadway past Columbia city limits. Turn right at Rangeline Road. After about two miles, turn right into the Bradford Research farm.
Take this short and beautiful drive out into the country and have a great family time that is FREE of charge!
Casey Corbin will lead a parade of cars who would like some guidance to the farm at 5:20 pm tomorrow from the Columbia Farmers Market Gravel Pad across from the ARC. Meet there and we can all carpool and follow each other out to the festival!! If you want to join in the carpool parade, email casey — casey@farmersmarketpavilion.org or call 823-FOOD
Rain? Who cares? This event is indoors in the new conference center at the reseearch center!
For more info:
http://aes.missouri.edu/bradford/events/tomato-festival.php
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/09/06/how-hot-can-you-go/