{"id":56970,"date":"2015-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-14th-annual-east-farm-spring-festival-may-9\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-14th-annual-east-farm-spring-festival-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/uri-to-host-14th-annual-east-farm-spring-festival-may-9\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host 14th annual East Farm Spring Festival, May 9"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 16, 2014 — The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 14th annual East Farm Spring Festival, featuring plant sales, workshops and a wide variety of vendors, educational displays and exhibits, will be held Saturday, May 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s East Farm.<\/p>\n


\nThe event, started in 2002 by a group of 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners who volunteered at the farm, annually draws thousands of visitors to the 79-acre research facility. It is sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Outreach Center and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardeners.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe sale of plants and other spring gardening products is what usually attracts most people to the event, but once they get there they also find lots of other useful products and information and plenty of food and entertainment,\u201d said Kim Downes, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Master Gardener who serves as the festival coordinator.<\/p>\n


\nWorkshops and demonstrations on a wide variety of topics, from beekeeping to \u201cedible container gardens,\u201d will be held all day long. Rhode Island Resource Recovery will be on hand selling compost bins, the Rhode Island Water Lady will sell rain barrels, and electronics recycling company Indie Cycle will be available to recycle used computers, televisions, monitors and other electronics. The Rhode Island Blood Center will host a blood drive, and the South Kingstown Farmers Market will be in operation during the event as well.<\/p>\n


\nChildren\u2019s activities will be provided by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Learning Landscape Program, and live entertainment and raffles will add to the fun. Gardening advice can be obtained from the Ask a Master Gardener booth, while free pH soil testing will be available for those who bring soil samples from home.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe event is happening rain or shine, and we encourage folks to bring a wagon to transport their purchases to the parking lot,\u201d said Downes. \u201cIt\u2019s always a perfect opportunity to get a last minute Mother\u2019s Day gift or to get plants and groceries at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nEast Farm is located on Route 108 in South Kingstown, a half mile south of the intersection with Route 138. Parking and admission are free. For additional information, visit http:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ceoc\/14th-annual-uri-east-farm-spring-festival\/or call 401-874-2900.

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 16, 2014 — The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 14th annual East Farm Spring Festival, featuring plant sales, workshops and a wide variety of vendors, educational displays and exhibits, will be held Saturday, May 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s East Farm. The event, started in 2002 by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}