Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/01/2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Westbury Community Garden
Categories
It’s time for Westbury Community Garden’s 6th Annual Tomato Tasting! Don’t miss this fun family event that celebrates heirloom and hybrid tomatoes of all shapes and colors.
Taste And Compare Tomatoes
Tasters can purchase a tasting scorecard for a small donation and like a wine tasting, do a blind taste test of 25-30 varieties of tomatoes in the Slicer, Salad, Paste and Cherry categories. Tomatoes are scored on color, texture, sweetness, acidity, traditional tomato flavor, and other traits. At the end of the event we vote on the favorite in each of the four categories. The names and growing information are revealed on each variety. Growers will be on hand to answer questions about different varieties.
The final list of varieties will be assembled just before the event date and depends on the productivity, weather and generosity of WCG gardeners and other tomato aficionados. We are opening up the tomato submissions to home growers and other community gardeners this year. Contact Debbie Gordon, event chairperson, if you’d like to show off your own home-grown tomatoes in this event. Email debbie @ digiroo .com. (typed this way to avoid spam-bots.)
Enter Your Homegrown Tomatoes
Will you have around 2 lbs of tomatoes or about 50 cherry tomatoes of the same variety? If you enter your tomatoes in the tasting, you get a free tasting scorecard! You must be absolutely sure of the variety name and have about 4-5 large tomatoes, 8-12 salad tomatoes or 50 cherries to donate. We ask that you pick as close to the event date as possible and don’t refrigerate the tomatoes. Get your entry on the list by contacting the Tomato committee by May 24 (before Memorial Day weekend) and then bring them to the garden pavilion in a labeled bag or container at 8:30 AM on Saturday, June 1 (1 1/2 hours before the event starts.)
Volunteer
WCG gardeners may earn volunteer hours by serving on the Tomato Tasting committee. There are many tasks where we need your help.
- event setup
- tomato prep
- information cards on varieties
- scorecard setup and printing
- guest sign-in and raffle ticket sales
- procuring raffle prize donations
- event cleanup
Donate Raffle Prizes
Would your local business like to participate by supplying a raffle prize to this popular Westbury event? Please contact event chairperson, Debbie Gordon. Your company will be acknowledged at the event, on the WCG website, in the Westbury Crier newsletter’s garden page and in our social media channels.
Save the date! Saturday, June 1, at 10:00 AM.
Note: This annual event is always the Saturday after Memorial weekend.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
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