Margaretville's gardenFest 2012 blooming this weekend!

With over sixty vendors purveying information and merchandise related to gardening and food, the Margaretville gardenFest2012 will also include live music, workshops, it’s own food court and hands-on activities for kids. The event takes place on Main Street Margaretville from 10:00 to 3:00 pm this Saturday. Admission is free.

There will be a petting zoo all day and a music stage in the NBT Bank parking lot which will feature performances by local favorites Laurie and Ira McIntosh (Story Laurie) at 11:00 AM and 1:00PM, and the Catskill Mountain Boys at noon and 2:00 PM. Other free activities include face painting by Karina Marvelina, bird house making with the Catskill Mountain Artisans’ Guild, a seed exchange at the Andes Sprouts Society booth, and a reading of Paddington Bear in the Garden by the Fairview Public Library at 12:30pm.  Don't miss it!

*******gardenFest2012 is presented by shopMargaretville in collaboration with the Mark Project & funded in part by the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation with support from the Watershed Post and Kids in the Kaatskills*******

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