Saturday, September 25, 2010
10 A.M. until 6 P.M.
Rain or Shine
@ The Wellness Farm, Inc.
19310 Dutton Road
Stewartstown, PA 17363
(717) 993-3081 　
www.pasweetpotatofestival.com　
e-mail: josman@zoominternet.net

The Wellness Farm is pleased to announce the 10^th annual Sweetpotato Festival. Get dirty, take some family pictures and go home with plenty of sweetpotatoes. Sweetpotatoes can easily be stored for more than 6 months! This event is meant to be a family activity. Children are encouraged to attend. There will be contests and games. Music. Vendors. Crafts, displays, fruit and vegetable sales. Activities. Recipes. Foods include: SP pancakes, SP punch, SP pies, SP breads and SP fries, SP Casseroles and baked SP - with toppings. Sweet Potato Cooking Demo. Open mike for memories about sweetpotatoes. Random - hourly drawings for prizes! Gifts will be awarded for the heaviest, longest, ugliest and most unusual sweetpotato dug during Festival hours. A variety of foods made from sweetpotatoes will be available at the Festival.* Admission is FREE this year! We are, however, asking for donations to support our local firehouse and/or church building program. Information on storing/curing SP and dozens of recipes will be available; SP t-shirts will also be available.

Sweetpotatoes are more than just a holiday food. Sweetpotatoes are rated as the most nutritious vegetable. You’d be amazed at the number of ways sweetpotatoes can be prepared (and disguised)! When properly cured, the amazing sweetpotato will keep -- at room temperature -- for longer than 9 months! (No other fruit or vegetable will do that!)　

Fresh, personally dug sweetpotatoes are weighed-in; the cost is 50 cents (white varieties 75 cents) per pound.　 For those who prefer sweetpotatoes without the digging, bags of sweetpotatoes will be available at the Festival for 75 cents/pound in bins by the barn. But -- the real fun -- is found in digging your own sweetpotatoes! It isn't difficult or strenuous.
Digging equipment and latex gloves will be available.
We have many different sweetpotato varieties available this year with flesh colors ranging from deep orange to yellow, white and even purple. Varieties include: Beauregard, Covington, Georgia Jet, Hernandez, Carolina Ruby, Carolina Rose, Evangeline, Porto Rico, O'Henry (white) and Hayman (white) and purple-fleshed varieties in fries and pies.

　Dig-Your-Own-Sweetpotato -- Times and Dates:
　　　　　　　　　　Friday, September 24^th (2 P.M. to 5 P.M.)　 　Pre-Festival Dig
　　　　　　　　　　Saturday , September 25th　 (10 A.M. to 6 P.M.)　 The FESTIVAL and Dig
　　　　　　　　　 Sunday, September 26th (NOON to 4 P.M.) Post Festival Dig Day　
　　　　　　　　　 Monday, September 27^th (NOON to 4 P.M.) Bargain Dig ...25 cents/pound -- if any left!

　*Dr. Jack’s Chocolate Sweetpotato Pie will be available at the Festival. This pie took honorable mention at the 2002 Juneteenth National Sweet Potato Pie Contest. His Vanilla Sweetpotato Pie took 2nd place at the 9th Annual Sweet Potato Pie Contest (Maryland State Fair), 2003-05; the Lemon SP Pie and Purple Passion Pies (made with purple-fleshed SP and blueberries) are excellent, too!. Directions to the farm: www.wellnessfarm.com

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