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Pesto Anyone? Basil Tasting and Pesto Making Demonstration with Chef Cynthia Triolo
Saturday 08-29-26 01:00 pm (Eastern)
Location: Haggerty Education Center
Who doesn’t love basil? Join the Friends as they host a basil tasting and pesto making demonstration.
The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Morris County are running a trial at several community gardens in our area of eight varieties of Genovese-style (pesto type) basil that have been bred to resist a devastating disease called Basil Downy Mildew. Vote for your favorite variety, see a pesto making demonstration and watch a 30-minute award-winning documentaty called Fields of Devotion about the Rutgers basil breeding program.
Questions: email mennist@arboretumfriends.net or lbencivengo@arboretumfriends.net
This program is eligible for 1.0 Rutgers Master Gardener CEU.
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