This year’s Massachusetts Marketplace Festival at Elm Bank will take place from 10am-4pm, Saturday, August 07, 2010 at Elm Bank Horticulture Center in Wellesley.
Visitors can meet New England farmers, food producers, and artisans and buy a wide variety of homemade crafts, soaps, baked goods, popcorn, teas, herbs, fine art, and annual plants. Celebrating the quality and abundance of local agriculture, floriculture, specialty foods, and crafts, the festival will include a full day of food sampling, shopping, and entertainment.
Visitors are encouraged to bring a blanket and enjoy a picnic lunch in the gardens. Guests may also want to spend some time exploring the many gardens of Elm Bank, including the New England Trial Garden, the historic Italianate Garden, Weezie’s Children Garden, and the New England Herb Society Garden.
Location:
The Gardens at Elm Bank,
900 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02492
Sponsor: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Cost: Adults – $6; MassHort Members – $4; Children Under 12 – $2
Phone: 617-933-4988, Email: massmarketplace@masshort.org
[Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society]
