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Friday, June 26, 2009

The Edible Garden, Summer-Long Exhibitions at The New York Botanical Garden June 27 through September 13, 2009

NEW YORK, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Set throughout The New York Botanical Garden's 250-acre landscape, The Edible Garden is a summer-long celebration of growing great food. Multiple exhibitions inspire visitors to grow, prepare, and eat garden-fresh produce and offer opportunities for children and adults to better understand how plants provide the food and drink essential to maintaining life, enhancing wellness, and sustaining the planet. Details can be found online at http://www.nybg.org/edible_garden/.

Visitors to the Botanical Garden can enjoy two Festival Weekends--June 27 & 28 and September 12 & 13--that celebrate local, sustainable food choices and global cuisine, respectively; seven Thursday evenings, July 9-August 20, including wine and beer tastings, and food-related programming; and exhibitions such as Martha Stewart's Culinary Herb Garden, Beginner's Vegetable Garden, Seed Savers Heirloom Vegetable Garden, Tropical Fruits, Roots, and Shoots, among others.


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