Vendors, partners, entertainers and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency and service representatives setup for the Harvest Festival on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The festival celebrates the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market.
Activities include Halloween costume contest, demonstrations about how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Richard Tyner. Original public domain image from Flickr