Cumberland County

Backyard *Locavore Tour

August 8, 2009

Raindate: August 9, 2009, Sunday

Strategies to grow, harvest and preserve your own food

*A locavore is someone who eats food grown and produced locally.

Limited Advanced Ticket sales  with maps to sites are available now!

Proceeds from this event benefit the new home of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County at the Regional Learning Center at Tidewater Farm.

Thank you for your interest in this “growing” opportunity to provide your family with  locally grown produce.

This self-guided auto-tour includes a  Northern loop through local gardens in Cumberland, Yarmouth,  Falmouth areas  and a Southern loop through local gardens in Cape Elizabeth.

Adults $10, Seniors $8 and children are free

Cumberland County Master Food Preservers and Master Gardeners present the first annual Backyard Locavore Tour.  Our goal is to provide strategies for growing, raising, harvesting and preserving your own food.  You will see backyard examples of “how to do it yourself”  vegetable and herb gardening, raising chickens (for eggs and meat), bee hives, fruit trees, composting and preserving food through freezing, canning, drying and root cellaring.  Back yard Locavore Garden Tour  includes both northernand southern loops through communities in Cumberland County. 

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Limited Advanced Ticket Sales with maps to sites are available now!