THIS SATURDAY...
ROCK THE GARDENS AT MADISON'S ONLY URBAN FARM!

MUSIC, GAMES AND RATATOUILLE HIGHLIGHT AN AFTERNOON AT TROY GARDENS.

Event: Northside Savor the Summer Festival
Date: 08/11/2007
Time: Noon to 6:30 p.m.
Place: Troy Gardens, 500 block of Troy Drive, Madison
Organizers: Friends of Troy Gardens and the Vera Court Neighborhood
Center
Cost: Free

Savor the summer with music, crafts, ethnic cooking demonstrations,
kid's activities, food, prairie hikes and hay rides at Troy Gardens --
Madison's only urban farm and the gem of the Northside.

MUSIC AND DANCE
Noon Acoustic Woody's (old time folk/blues duo)
1:00 Momus Boda (motown-tinged blues)
2::00 WADOMA (African dance and drum)
3:30 Kissers (Irish root rock)
4:45 Vera Court Girl Power drill team
5:00 Hmong Dancers
5:30 The Betrayed (high octane rock & roll)

KID FUN: Hands-on crafts, outdoor games and races, plus bubbles, slip
& slide, discovery in the Kids' Garden.

WORKSHOPS: Medicinal Herb Lesson and Tour, Tour of co-housing and
discussion of green living, green landscaping, chili roasting, bird
walk.

COOKING DEMOS: Huitlacoche, Hmong and soul food demonstrations, along
with oil infusion techniques with herbs.

FOOD: Ratatouille made from vegetables grown at Troy Community Farm,
the three B's of summer (beer, brats, burgers, also veggie varieties),
Hmong snacks, ice cream.

DIRECTIONS TO TROY GARDENS .... 500 BLOCK OF TROY DRIVE:

By bus: take bus No. 22 from the North Transfer point. There's a stop
right by the gardens on Troy Drive.

By car: If you are coming from the East, take Sherman Drive to
Northport Drive (or come in from Packers). Follow Northport Dr. past
Warner Park. Turn left onto Troy Drive. Go several blocks until you
pass under the railroad passing. Pass both E. and W. Karstens Dr. on
your right. Troy Gardens is beyond this. You can park on the street.

By bicycle: If you are coming from points east, the best way to get to
the gardens is through Maple Bluff. Wind around Maple Bluff (take
Lakewood Blvd. to Farwell Dr.; avoid the bluff by cutting through
Butternut and then back on to Farwell). Farwell turns into Woodward
Dr. Go past Warner Beach on your right. Turn right onto Marcy Rd.,
which ends at Troy Drive. Turn left onto Troy Drive. The gardens are
on your left.

For more information contact Friends of Troy Gardens, 608- 240-0409
info@..., www.troygardens.org.