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We are still accepting vendors for the 2013 festival. September 28, 2013 11 to 6 PM. Contact Jack at the above email address.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
11 A.M. until 6 P.M.
Rain or Shine
@ The Wellness Farm, Inc.
19310 Dutton Road
Stewartstown, PA 17363
(717) 993-3081
www.pasweetpotatofestival.com
e-mail: josman@zoominternet.net
Schedule of Festival Events
The Wellness Farm is pleased to announce the 13th annual Sweetpotato Festival. Get dirty, take some family pictures and go home with plenty of sweetpotatoes. Sweetpotatoes can easily be stored for more than 6 months! This event is meant to be a family activity. Children are encouraged to attend. There will be contests and games. Music. Vendors. Crafts, displays, fruit and vegetable sales. Activities. Recipes. Foods include: SP pancakes, SP punch, SP pies, SP fries, SP Ice Cream, and baked SP - with toppings. Sweet Potato Cooking Demo is also a possibility. Open mike for memories about sweetpotatoes. Random prize drawings! Gifts will be awarded for the heaviest, longest and most unusual sweetpotato dug during Festival hours. A variety of foods made from sweetpotatoes will be available at the Festival. Admission is only $3 per adult - over 80 - free! Information on storing/curing sweetpotatoes - click link. SP t-shirts will also be available.
Sweetpotatoes are more than just a holiday food. Sweetpotatoes are rated as
the most nutritious vegetable. You’d be amazed at the number of
ways sweetpotatoes can be prepared (and even "disguised" for those who claim not to like them)! When properly cured, the
amazing sweetpotato will keep -- at room temperature -- for longer than 9
months! (No other fruit or vegetable will do that!)
Fresh, personally dug sweetpotatoes are weighed-in; the cost is 75 cents
per pound. For those who prefer sweetpotatoes
without the digging, bags of sweetpotatoes will be available at the Festival. Cured SP available for
$1.00/pound in boxes/bags by the barn. But -- the real fun -- is found in digging
your own sweetpotatoes! It isn't difficult or strenuous.
Digging equipment and buckets will be available. Bring your own gloves, particularly if you just manicured your nails!
We have many different sweetpotato varieties available this year with
flesh colors ranging from deep orange to yellow, white and even purple.
Varieties include: Beauregard, Covington, Georgia Jet, Heart-o-Gold, Hernandez, Carolina Ruby,
Carolina Rose, Evangeline, Molokai Purple, Carolina Nugget, O'Henry (white), Bonita (white) and Hayman (white) and
purple-fleshed varieties in fries and pies.
Dig-Your-Own-Sweetpotato -- Times and Dates:
Saturday , September 28th (11 A.M. to 6 P.M.) The FESTIVAL &
Dig
Sunday, September 29th (NOON to 4 P.M.) Post Festival Dig Day
Chocolate Sweetpotato Pie will be available at the Festival.
This pie took honorable mention at the 2002 Juneteenth National Sweet Potato
Pie Contest. Vanilla Sweetpotato Pie took 2nd place at the 9th Annual
Sweet Potato Pie Contest (Maryland State Fair), 2003-05; the Lemon SP Pie and
Purple Passion Pies (made with purple-fleshed SP and blueberries) are excellent,
too!.
Directions to the farm: