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Win Two Tickets to Practical Farmers of Iowa’s Garlic Festival
News Release
For Immediate Release
October 13, 2009
Contact: Suzi Bernhard, Practical Farmers of Iowa, (515)232-5661, [email protected]
Win Two Tickets to Practical Farmers of Iowa’s Garlic Festival
Ames—Do you like great food and intriguing conversation? Join Practical Farmers of Iowa before
November 1st for a chance to win two tickets to their Fourth Annual Garlic Festival, Saturday,
November 7. All new memberships received between October 15 and November 1 will be entered into a
raffle. The winner will receive two tickets ($120 value) to our annual harvest celebration. The tickets
were donated by a Practical Farmers of Iowa member as a thank you to all of our new members. You
can join on-line here, by visiting www.practicalfarmers.org for downloadble forms or contact Suzi
Burnhard at (515)232-5661.
Practical Farmers of Iowa’s Fourth Annual Garlic Festival will kick off at Northern Prairie Chevre near
Woodward at 3:00 p.m., there you will learn about goat cheese crafting and goat husbandry. Next, tour
the grounds and winery of Snus Hills Winery near Madrid at 5:00 p.m., and purchase a bottle of wine for
dinner. A 6:30 Garlic tasting at Snus Hills will allow you to taste and rate heirloom garlic varieties. After
the tasting, sit down to a dinner prepared by chef Donna Prizgintas, featuring garlic and food grown by
local farmers. Register for the Garlic Festival on-line.
The dinner is a fundraiser event for Practical Farmers of Iowa and is in conjunction with Central Iowa’s
Buy Fresh, Buy Local Chapter.
RSVP for Garlic Festival is required by October 30. Registration is available on-line here or by
contacting Suzi Bernhard at (515)232-5661, [email protected].
This event is sponsored by the Ceres Foundation. Sustaining sponsors for Practical Farmers of Iowa
Field Days are the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University Extension, Iowa
Pork Producers Association, American Natural Soy, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Midwest Organic
and Sustainable Education Service, Midwest Organic Services Association, Henry A. Wallace Endowed
Chair for Sustainable Agriculture, and the CROPP Cooperative of Organic Valley/ Organic Prairie Family
of Farms. Major sponsors for the Field Days are Wheatsfield Cooperative Natural Foods Grocery,
Hubbard Feeds, Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Iowa Forage and Grasslands Council, King Corn
and Mosaic Films, and the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
PFI is a non-profit sustainable agriculture group dedicated to farming that is profitable, environmentally
sound, and healthy for consumers and communities. Founded in 1985, PFI has over 2300 farmer and
non-farmer members throughout Iowa. For more information, call (515)232-5661 or visit
www.practicalfarmers.org.
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Ames, Iowa 50014
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