PRINCETON, NJ Restaurant Dining Guide Announcement

21st Annual Great Tomato Tasting at the Rutgers NJAES Snyder Farm August 31, 2011

Hurricane Irene put New Jersey through the wringer, but many farmers were able to harvest crops before the storm hit, including the crew at Rutgers Snyder Research Farm. The tomatoes are ready for tasting!

21st Annual
Great Tomato Tasting
at the Rutgers NJAES Snyder Farm
Rutgers University, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension proudly announce the Annual Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting, to be held on Wednesday August 31, 2011 from 3 pm - dusk.
 
This year’s event includes the very popular tasting of both heirloom and hybrid tomatoes and wagon tours of the farm’s research plots.  The afternoon will also include tastings of honey, herbs, apples and peaches – all with the assistance and guidance of Rutgers NJAES Master Gardener volunteers.  The Melda C. Snyder Teaching Garden will showcase garden displays of deer tolerant ornamentals, plants that can attract native pollinators to your garden, the Rutgers holly and blueberry breeding programs, columnar varieties of fruit trees for the home landscape and daylilies.  Also, we welcome back chefs featuring tasty samples of tomato recipes.  Local residents will have professional advice offered by the Hunterdon County Board of Health Staff regarding stink bugs, mosquitoes and black flies; pesky insects near and dear to local residents.  For those who want small productive gardens, there will be square foot gardening demonstrations.
 
Wagon tours led by faculty and farm staff will be available throughout the event, highlighting Rutgers NJAES agricultural research.  Rutgers NJAES faculty, staff, and Master Gardener volunteers will be available throughout the event to answer your gardening questions and to make your visit to our research farm a pleasurable and memorable one (bring your camera).
 
Please bring non-perishable canned food items to support the Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) program, https://rah.rutgers.edu
 
Additional information, can be found on our website:   https://snyderfarm.rutgers.edu/tomatoes.html
 
What:             Great Tomato Tasting
Where:           Snyder Research and Extension Farm
140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, Hunterdon County, NJ
When:            Wednesday – August 31, 2011   (Rain or Shine)
Time:             3 pm - dusk
Admission:     $7.00 per person, children under 10 are free
RSVP please: Online https://njaes.rutgers.edu/rsvp/tomato ; phone 908-713-8980