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Tomato & Pear Festival @ Linvilla Orchards

Bring your whole family down to the farm for a PEARfect fun-filled day at Linvilla Orchards annual Tomato and Pear Festival! Hosted by our friends from Piccirillo Sciencetelling!

We've never had a festival quite like this before! Featuring The Bugs of Blackwood Show, plus Make and Take Home Slime and experience the Liquid Nitrogen Graham Cracker and Dry Ice activities.

Join us for real pony rides, games and contests, or play on our world-class playground. Be sure to enjoy some savory salsa, juice, pies, and other sweet treats in the Farm Market made from our very own tomatoes and pears!

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You can pick your own tomatoes and pears from our fields. A wide variety will be available including heirloom Brandywine and Pineapple tomatoes or the unusual pear shaped Japanese Black Trifele tomato straight from the vine!

Susan DiBonaventura, chef, cooking instructor and author of the renowned cookbook Live, Laugh, Cook will be providing a cooking demonstration featuring tomatoes and pears at 4 pm.

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Hayrides throughout our beautiful orchards and fields, face painting, ice cream, and the Linvilla Grill.

Saturday, August 20, 2011 (Rain date Sunday)
Picking begins at 8 am! 
Entertainment starts at 11 am. 
Costumed Characters appear at 11:30 am, 1 pm and 2:15 pm
Where: Linvilla Orchards Entertainment Garden
Cooking demonstration by Susan DiBonaventura at 4 pm at the Farm Market

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