The East Mont Garden Club and the Meadowbrook Library are sponsoring the 15th annual Garden Day and Tractor Show from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 4 in the courtyard of the Meadowbrook Center.
In February greenhouses and Gro-lit basements, Garden Club members have been raising tomato cultivars with names that conjure summer tomato bounty, sweetness and tradition like Mortgage Lifter, Kellogg Breakfast, German Johnson and Speckled Roman.
Spring seedlings will be handed out to local gardeners who will raise them through the summer, then share ten pounds their harvests during the EastMont Tomato Festival that will happen on August 17.
“We have about 180 tomatoes for anyone who pledges to share their harvest with the community at the East Mont Tomato Festival on August 17 from 10-3,” Diane Relf, artist and long-time tomato-grower, said.
Reaping what they sow, the wider community invests in Cherokee Purples, Mr. Stripeys and Gardener’s Sweethear80s in the springtime setting its sights on summer bounty on The East Mont Tomato Festival.
The spring event is an ecology that intercrops fundraising, community and planning for the future. In the oak-shaded courtyard, with local band Ft. Vause setting the tone, tractors will be admired and paraded, Friends of the Library will also host a book sale at $6 a bag and summer seedling sale.
“Also, we are raising summer squash, winter squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, and other vegetables for the Friends of the Library to sell as a fund raiser for the BackPack Program,” Relf said.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Cindy Minnick at 540-268-1964.
