Homemade - Homegrown - Organic
this year's event will feature 160 vendors selling:
- organic garlic, garlic wreaths, products and snacks;
- fresh organic produce;
- plants and plant products;
- local crafts of art, jewellery, wood, flutes, furniture, pottery, textiles, rocks;
- soaps, lotions, and herbal remedies
- great food
The Garlic Festival is a local community fundraiser put on by local volunteers through the Hills Recreation Society (a non-profit society). Over the years it has become one of the highlights of the Hills / New Denver / Silverton community and has raised money to provide recreation facilities and services for the area including basketball/ tennis courts, yoga classes, children's recreation programs, and local cross-country ski trails.
What started as a small gathering of friends who decided to have a garlic-themed pot luck supper in the park grew quickly to a community event drawing local garlic growers and garlic lovers to the Hills Community park. By 2003, the Garlic Festival had outgrown its home and was moved to Centennial Park in New Denver.
Vendors from all over the Kootenays, the BC Interior, and farther afield gather to sell the bounty of their harvests: vegetables, herbs, arts and crafts, and, of course, GARLIC! The festival attracts about 6000 people of all ages with lively music, great food, children's entertainment, and old fashioned community fun.
Vendors from all over the Kootenays, the BC Interior, and farther afield gather to sell the bounty of their harvests: vegetables, herbs, arts and crafts, and, of course, GARLIC! The festival attracts about 6000 people of all ages with lively music, great food, children's entertainment, and old fashioned community fun.
Grow, Harvest, Cook, Eat, GARLIC
Jenn
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