Tasting History – Pomegranates

Friday September 8, 2023, 9-11am &
Saturday September 9, 2023, 9-11am

In the “Placita” outside Mission Garden’s kitchen
FREE and open to the public, for all ages. All monetary gifts are appreciated. Your gifts help the garden grow.

Mission Garden grows hundreds of traditional local crops. Tasting History is a new opportunity to learn about their origins, how they became part of our local agricultural and culinary traditions, how to grow them at home, and more. Docents will demonstrate and share tastings, written materials and recipes. 

For September we are featuring pomegranates. Mission Garden has eleven different pomegranate varieties, including several heirloom Sonoran White Pomegranates, which are very distinct from the tart red ones available commercially. Come explore the diversity! 

Learn tricks and tips on how to eat pomegranates!

There will be ideas for how to use pomegranates in dishes you might prepare. And we’ll provide sample tastes of some of these. If you decide you want to experiment at home, our shop will be selling pomegranate fruit! And if you walk away wondering if you should have a pomegranate tree in your yard, our shop will have a limited number of pomegranate trees for sale!

Please reach out to Kendall Kroesen, Mission Garden Outreach Coordinator at kendall@missiongarden.org for additional information.

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