After a two-year hiatus, the Maine Fiddlehead Pageant is slated for a revival from 10 a.m. to three p.m. Saturday, April 30, on the campus of the College of Maine at Farmington.
Starting in 2012, the native food-centered pageant was held yearly till the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled plans in 2020 and 2021. In its ninth version this yr, the pageant is held on the UMF campus, the place it was initially conceived, developed and arranged cooperatively by UMF school, college students and employees, and local people members, with the assist of space companies, in accordance with a information launch from the college.
Pageant attendees can expertise an eclectic assortment of native farmers and meals producers, craft distributors, meals vans, group nonprofits, stay livestock, many youngsters’s actions, native musicians, and an area stomach dancing ensemble. Centered on native meals, each farmed and foraged, the occasion celebrates native dwelling and rural wholesome existence.
It marks the start of the farmers market season and is attended by many native distributors. Timing of the occasion often coincides with the emergence of the Maine fiddlehead, the immature type of the ostrich fern. Dave Fuller, lately retired from the College of Maine Cooperative Extension, will once more lead guests on his stroll and discuss seeking the pageant’s namesake.
A fiddlehead cooking demonstration has been a draw all through the historical past of the pageant, and UMF’s Ashley Montgomery will likely be again to whet the urge for food of tourists for the seasonal delicacy.
The pageant is free and open to the general public. It’s household pleasant, with quite a few child-oriented actions and points of interest, together with crafts and livestock with which to work together.
The rain-or-shine occasion takes place within the courtyard between the Olsen Scholar Heart and Roberts Studying Heart buildings on the southern finish of the UMF campus.
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Parking is obtainable in close by college tons on Excessive Avenue and decrease Predominant Avenue close to Abbott Park.
For extra data, contact Mark Pires, UMF campus sustainability coordinator, at 207-778-7015 or [email protected], or go to fb.com/FarmingtonMaineFiddleheadFestival.
For the college’s present COVID-19 coverage for guests, go to maine.edu.
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