Sunol AgPark Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Patch

Sunol AgPark Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Patch, Sunday, September 27 –

by the iconic Sunol Water Temple in the beautiful Sunol Valley

Sunol, California – Fall is a perfect time of year to spend a day on your local farm. SAGE (Sustainable Agriculture Education) invites the public to the Sunol Agricultural Park for the 3rd annual Sunol AgPark Harvest Festival and Pumpkin Patch on Sunday, September 27, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The Sunol AgPark is a thriving 18-acre organic farm located in the beautiful Sunol valley and next to the historic Sunol Water Temple.

The Harvest Festival is a chance to buy directly from the AgPark’s eight, small organic farmers who usually sell at farmers markets, through CSAs, and to local restaurants and stores. These diverse farmers grow hundreds of different crops, including traditional varieties of herbs and vegetables from India, Iran, Korea and Ethiopia, heirloom tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and gorgeous flowers. For the Festival, farmers will also offer activities such as bean winnowing workshops, tomato tastings and farm tours, and of course, a pumpkin patch.

Dozens of organizations and businesses from Sunol, the Tri Valley and the greater East Bay, make the Harvest Festival a community celebration. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) brings their water truck and enticing schematics of the Alameda Creek Watershed Center, which they will soon build next to the Water Temple. East Bay Regional Park District will display live reptiles at their mobile visitor truck. Other community groups offer educational booths and children’s activities such as wild-flower seed packet making, corn husk doll crafts, and face painting. Niles Pie Company and other eateries will have food for sale, and adults can enjoy local wine and beer from Fenestra Winery and JP DasBrew. The Niles Canyon Artisans offer their art and wares for sale, all to the tune of live music from American folk band Blind Lemon Pledge.

The event is open to the public, with a suggested donation of $5/adult to support SAGE’s education and public outreach programs. Admission for children is free. Attendees are encouraged to bring water bottles and strollers, trikes, bikes and wagons to wheel around the AgPark and explore the Festival offerings.The event is sponsored by Chevron, The Independent, Diablo Foods, Mechanics Bank, Safeway and New Leaf Community Markets with donations from Wente Vineyards and Sierra Nevada Brewery.

The AgPark, a project of SAGE in partnership with the SFPUC, is a field trip destination for over 2,000 school children each year as well as a learning hub for beginning farmers. Located at 505 Paloma Way in Sunol (on Hwy 84, ½ mile west of Hwy 680), the AgPark is about 15 minutes from Fremont and Pleasanton and 30 minutes from Oakland and Hayward.

For further information: Contact charlotte@sagecenter.org, 510-526-1793 x 5 or visit http://www.sagecenter.org.