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What's Coming Up in the Garden? 
September 28, 2011 

Harvest Festival Entertainment Schedule 

 

Saturday, October 1

 

11:00 - 11:15

Puppet Show

 

11:15-noon

Kelly, Putnam and Stevens (Great American Songbook)

 

Noon - 1 pm

Hooping Harmony

 

1:00 - 1:10

Vaulting

(Gymnastics on Horseback)

 

1:10 - 2:00

David Grover

Family Show

 

2:00 - 2:15 

Puppet Show

 

2:15 - 3:00

Berkshire Ramblers

(Old time Folk Songs with Alan Chartock)

 

3:00 - 3:10

Vaulting

(Gymnastics on Horseback)

 

3:10 - 4:00

Hooping Harmony

 

4:00 - 5:00

Frank Schaap

(Blues, Rags and Hollers)

 

Sunday, October 2

 

11:00 - 11:15

Puppet Show

 

11:15 - noon

Down Home

(Banjo and Fiddle)

 

Noon to 1:00

Hooping Harmony

 

1:00 - 1:10

Vaulting 

(Gymnastics on Horseback)

 

1:10 - 2:00

David Grover

Family Show

 

2:00 - 2:15

Puppet Show

 

2:15 - 3:00

The Lucky Fives

(Early Swing Music)

 

3:00 - 3:10

Vaulting

(Gymnastics on Horseback)

 

3:10 - 4:00

Hooping Harmony

 

4:00 - 4:10

50/50 Raffle Drawing

 

4:10 - 5:00

Moonshine Holler

(Old Time Fiddling & Clogging)

 

So Many Ways to Enjoy the 77th Annual

Harvest Festival October 1-2  

 

 

Great Music and Entertainment

 

Hay Maze and Hay Jump

 

Botanical Bakery and Cafe

 

Pony Rides

 

Silent Auction

(Saturday only)

 

Plant Sale Featuring BBG's Daylily Collection

 

Haunted House

 

Used Book Sale

 

Kid's Crafts

 

Jewelry Boutique

 

Mini Golf

 

Workshops and Demos

 

Farm Friendly Animals

 

Country Bazaar

 

Over 100 Vendors and Crafters

 

Pumpkin Toss

 

Opportunity Clothing Sale

 

Amazing Local Food

 

Pumpkin Toss

 

Gigantic Tag Sale

 

Hoola Hooping for All

 

50/50 Raffle

 

Herb Associates Products

 

Vaulting Demos

(Gymnastics on Horseback)

 

Puppet Show

 

Jump Rope Making

 

And much, much more!

 

 

 

Links of Interest


                        
pumpkin and peter sweet
Peter Sweet of Seekonk Farm and his award winning "Atlantic Giant."  Guess its weight this weekend at the Harvest Festival.  

      The Great Pumpkin has Arrived!

     Harvest Festival is this Weekend!

 

Can you guess the weight of this 

Great Pumpkin?

 

Join us this weekend as we celebrate our 77th annual Harvest Festival October 1-2, 10 am - 5 pm 

  

Back by popular demand! 

"Guess the Weight" pumpkin contest (free Great Pumpkin seeds to the first 100 guesses!) and a collection of  gigantic specimens including a 3.5 pound tomato, huge gourds and a giant watermelon grown by Peter Sweet, Jr. 

 

 

New!  Expanded Farmer's Market 

Where would we be without our wonderful local farmers?  Visit them and enjoy all they have to offer:

Berkshire Grown * Project Native * Cricket Creek (cheese) * Equinox Farm (mesclun and arugula) * Adamah (preserved food from their farm - Sunday only) * Zehr and Sons Mushrooms (Saturday only) * Klara's Cookies * Taft Farm * Woven Roots Farm (vegetables) * Shire City Herbs (medicinals) * Riska Brook Orchard (apples)

Berkshire Botanical Garden Plant and Pumpkin Sale

 

Welcome Local Artisan Food Producers

Mill Brook Sugar House (maple syrup and more) * Valley View Acres (honey and more) * Tortured Orchard (sauces) * Pretiola's Bavarian Pretzels * Charles H. Baldwin & Sons (vanilla and more) * H.R. Zeppelin Fine Handmade Chocolates * Pittsfield Rye and Specialty Breads

 

See You at our Harvest Festival!

$10 covers admission and parking

(Please, no pets!) 

 

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Silent Auction Items

There are nearly 200 donated items in our Harvest Festival Silent Auction

 

 silent auction collage

 

 

Antique Garden Bench

Early mid-century decorative whiteiron garden bench.  Great patina.  Value: $600 


Two Nights at the Hyatt

Enjoy two nights at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Includes accommodations for
two for 2 nights, $100 food & beverage certificate, $100 spa certificate and private poolside cabana for a day of your choice.  Value: $850

 

Silver Plated Cachepot

Handsome, footed Reed & Barton Silver plated cachepot to be used as a wine tray or to plant paper whites in style!  Measures 11 inches.  Value: $600

 

A Dessert Each Month

Twelve scrumptious desserts (one each month or several for a party) prepared by Janet Laudenslager and delivered anywhere in south Berkshire County.  

Fancy tarts a specialty! 

Value: $250

 

 

 Read more about our Silent Auction items.  Click here.

 

Take Home a Bit of the Garden
this Weekend  

The Garden will once again be selling daylily divisions from its historic American Daylily Society collection. These lilies were dug and divided two weeks ago by the Garden's staff and volunteers.

This year's collection includes 30 different cultivars in many diverse colors with a total of 413 divisions, with prices ranging from $6 - $10.
 
In addition to daylilies, this is a great weekend to purchase all your autumn favorites. . .chrysanthemums in nine colors, Osaka (flowering cabbage),  Chidori (flowering kale), pumpkins, house plants and many surprise perennials suitable for autumn planting.
 
The Plant Sale is located in the Garden's main parking lot on Route 102.  
hooping harmony
Hooping Harmony 
Harvest Festival
October 1 & 2

Hooping Harmony is the mother-daughter team of Ariana Shelton and Laura Marie who share their passion for hoop dance with kids of all ages.  Join the hoopla all weekend (hoops of all sizes provided!) and their family-friendly hoop jam on Saturday and Sunday, noon - 1:00 and 3:10 - 4:00. 

For more information about Hooping Harmony, click here. 

 

 

For more information about Berkshire Botanical Garden  
call: 413.298.3926

check out our website: www.berkshirebotanical.org 


write:  
Berkshire Botanical Garden
PO Box 826, Stockbridge, MA. 01262

email: 
info@berkshirebotanical.org

visit:
intersection of Routes 102 & 183, Stockbridge, MA


 

Open from 9 am - 5 pm daily. We look forward to meeting you!
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