The spotlight will shine on more than 30 varieties of Heirloom organic tomatoes at the Tomato Festival and Purses for Pets fundraiser on September 23rd, a ‘gently used upscale handbag auction’ to benefit the Lassen County Humane Society’s local spay and neuter program.
Festival attendees will be treated to a free heirloom tomato tasting, gourmet cooking classes, wine tasting and live music from The Crocodilians.
Along with the cooking classes you can also learn wine and tomato pairing and how to can your own tomatoes.
There will be live culinary-garden demonstrations at the event and you can enter a raffle to win firewood and other great prizes.
The event is free and starts at 2:00 Saturday afternoon and runs until 5:00p.m., at Every Bloomin’ Thing nursery, 705-670 Hwy 395 E. For more information call 251-2330.
