harvest festival

Today Megan and I went to the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello. The weather was great (it's starting to feel like fall!) and there was a lot of produce for sampling. Throw in some local food vendors and the beautiful scenery and you have a recipe for a lovely Saturday afternoon in the Piedmont.

Concord grapes and pears. Yum yum yum.

It's kind of hard to see, but this is a yellow watermelon. It tasted exactly like a normal watermelon! This guy told me that this fruit is an "heirloom" variety, which means it was "grown during earlier periods in human history, but which is not used in modern large-scale agriculture" (thanks Wikipedia!)

 (Instead of margarine)---It's probably true. 

A "cashmere" goat. They were so soft! Apparently they also make great pets. And cheese (but we already knew that).

After my terrible experience with goat meat in Morocco, I didn't even consider this as an option for lunch.

Bees! We couldn't find the queen though. 

Not food, just pretty flowers. 


I'm still trying to think of a good sign-off,
Molly