Thursday, October 4, 2018

Pickles & Pints (Our Two Favorite Things)

Cheers to a weekend-long event that celebrates our two favorite things - pickles and pints! Yes, you read that right. This Columbus Day Weekend, you can visit Tower Hill Botanic Garden to get a taste of all things pickled and brewed. Check it out!


Saturday, October 6

All Day
  • Crafts: Families are welcome to express their creativity with a festive fall craft!
  • Exploration Station: Families can keep an eye out for our pop-up Exploration Stations. Children will use microscopes to see wacky gourds up close.
  • Vendors (Pickles, jams, maple syrup, apples, vinegar, and more): Prepare to taste and buy delicious preserved products from many local vendors. There will be treats for even the pickiest taste buds.
  • Face Painting and henna: Celebrate autumn with a face full of color and glitter.
  • Veggie Races: Ready, set, go! Which vegetable is the most aerodynamic? We have souped up vegetable with wheels and a race track to answer this question. Get ready to guess which veggie on wheels will win it all.
  • Wine Tasting with First Crush Vineyard: Red or white? Whatever your preference you will enjoy the samples offered by First Crush Vineyard from Harwich, MA.
  • Sauerkraut making drop-in activity: Learn some tips and tricks while seeing the process of transforming cabbage into sauerkraut!
  • Apple Tasting: You don’t have to know much about apples to enjoy their sweet taste! We will be offering samples of a variety of local apples.
  • Pickle making drop-in activity: Learn how to make your own pickles during this demonstration of the pickling process.
10:30am – 12pm, Family Hike
10:30am – 12:30pm, Plush Pickle Drop-in Workshop, Do you LOVE pickles so much that you wish you could snuggle with one? Come create your very own fabric pickle! Give it eyes, a name and a story! All ages and abilities welcome.
12pm, Award Ceremony for Growing Contest with Roger Swain: Join us as we announce the awards to the winners of our Let’s Get Growing Contest. You will see some of the largest, wackiest, and strangest products of the garden that can be grown.
12 – 1pm, Live Music by Seth Connelly
1 – 3pm, Learn and Grow
1:30 – 3:30pm, The Joy of Making Homemade Wines
2 – 3pm, Guided Tour
2 – 3pm, Live Music by Seth Connelly

Sunday, October 7

All Day
  • Crafts: Families are welcome to express their creativity with a festive fall craft!
  • Exploration Station: Families can keep an eye out for our pop-up Exploration Stations. Children will use microscopes to see wacky gourds up close.
  • Vendors (Pickles, jams, maple syrup, apples, vinegar, and more): Prepare to taste and buy delicious preserved products from many local vendors. There will be treats for even the pickiest taste buds.
  • Face Painting: Celebrate autumn with a face full of color and glitter.
  • Veggie Races: Ready, set, go! Which vegetable is the most aerodynamic? We have souped up vegetable with wheels and a race track to answer this question. Get ready to guess which veggie on wheels will win it all.
  • Sauerkraut making drop-in activity: Learn some tips and tricks while seeing the process of transforming cabbage into sauerkraut!
  • Apple Tasting: You don’t have to know much about apples to enjoy their sweet taste! We will be offering samples of a variety of local apples.
  • Pickle making drop-in activity: Learn how to make your own pickles during this demonstration of the pickling process.
10:30am – 12pm, Family Canning
10:30am – 12:30pm, Plush Pickle Drop-in Workshop, Do you LOVE pickles so much that you wish you could snuggle with one? Come create your very own fabric pickle! Give it eyes, a name and a story! All ages and abilities welcome.
11:30am – 12:30pm, Chef Demo with Gary Ankin
12 – 1pm, Live Music by The Rafters
1 – 3pm, Learn and Grow
2pm, Chef Demo: Ciderhouse Cookbook
2pm, Guided Tour
2pm, The Art and Science of Growing Giant Pumpkins
2 – 3pm, Live Music by The Dales

Monday, October 8

All Day
  • Crafts: Families are welcome to express their creativity with a festive fall craft
  • Exploration Station: Families can keep an eye out for our pop-up Exploration Stations. Children will use microscopes to see wacky gourds up close.
  • Vendors (Pickles, jams, maple syrup, apples, vinegar, and more): Prepare to taste and buy delicious preserved products from many local vendors. There will be treats for even the pickiest taste buds.
  • Face Painting: Celebrate autumn with a face full of color and glitter.
  • Veggie Races: Ready, set, go! Which vegetable is the most aerodynamic? We have souped up vegetable with wheels and a race track to answer this question. Get ready to guess which veggie on wheels will win it all.
  • Sauerkraut making drop-in activity: Learn some tips and tricks while seeing the process of transforming cabbage into sauerkraut!
  • Apple Tasting: You don’t have to know much about apples to enjoy their sweet taste! We will be offering samples of a variety of local apples.
  • Pickle making drop-in activity: Learn how to make your own pickles during this demonstration of the pickling process.
12 – 1pm, Live Music by CrossTracks
1 – 3pm, Learn and Grow
2pm, Chef Demo: Jason Bond
2pm, Guided Tour
2 – 3pm, Live Music by CrossTracks

Put a lid on autumn with this delicious weekend focusing on the world of canned, jarred, jammed, pickled, preserved, fermented, and brewed produce and devour the details of pickles and pints all weekend long at Tower Hill Botanic Garden!

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