weekend festival

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,  10 a..m. - 5 p.m.
The wide range of educational and fun programs offered at From Field to Table Festival will highlight the diverse opportunities to be found at The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Community Garden Campus.

Throughout the day, guests can sample foods and products created and produced in Ohio and shop the wares of a select number of Ohio artisans and food producers. Ongoing demonstrations will take place and families will enjoy family-friendly harvest themed activities including a corn climbing wall, scarecrow building, and more. All are invited to tour the four acre campus.

FREE ONGOING PRESENTATIONS
• Cooking Demos all day in the Live Fire Cooking Theater
• Pollinators in the Garden: Bees & Butterflies
• Grossology – All about Worms and Composting
• Gus the Squash Carver
• How Does Your Garlic Grow?
Learn To Plant & Harvest Your Own

CHEF/AUTHOR LECTURES
Four nationally recognized chef/authors will present lectures and sign their titles. LEARN MORE

WORKSHOPS TO CELEBRATE THE GARDEN HARVEST
All workshop tickets cost $25. Seating is limited. Please reserve your seat in advance by calling 614.645.6402. Your ticket also includes the cost of admission to Festival and to Conservatory exhibitions
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Eat Your Vegetables: Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Healthy Garden Menus Kids Will Love
Presented by Nationwide Children’s Hospital

From Seed to Table: Saturday, 1:30 p.m.
Garden and menu planning with Chef Magdiale Wolmark, Dragonfly Neo-V Cuisine

Put ‘Em Up: Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
Preserve your harvest and transform your menus with
home-canned tomatoes, jams, pickles

Fall Container Gardening: Sunday, 3:30 p.m.
Extend your container’s season with annuals, perennials
and cool weather plants

FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
• Kernal Franklin’s Corn Climbing Wall
• Ongoing Tai Chi & Yoga classes
• Tour the park on ‘Hop on Board’ hay rides
• Build your own scarecrow, and MORE!

ENJOY FOOD AND PRODUCTS FROM
OVER TWENTY LOCAL VENDORS
Freckle Bear Lavender Farm, Holy Smoke BBQ, Jeni’s Ice Cream, Jose Madrid Salsas, Misty Mountain Estate, Mockingbird Meadows, Dragonfly, OSU Bee Lab, Snowville Creamery, Pattycake Bakery, Sprout Soup, Strawberry Fields, Whole Foods, and more!

Click here for a downloadable ticket order form.

Funds raised at the Festival will benefit Franklin Park Conservatory’s ongoing education programs, including its community gardening program, Growing to Green.