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*Events (June, 24, 2010)* *2010 Allen Street Farmers Market Events* *Where: *The corner of E. Kalamazoo & Allen Streets *When: * - June 30 Strawberry Festival - Aug. 4th Tomato Festival - Sept. 20th Apple Festival - Oct. 20th Harvest Festival - Oct. 27th Market Closes The market takes places every Wednesday 2:30pm-7:00pm, from now-Oct. 27th. After Labor Day the market closes at 6:30pm. For more information, call (517) 367-2468, *www.allenneighborhoodcenter.org*. *Speak to the Earth Tour 2010* *When:* Classes will be offered July 11, Aug. 8 and Sept. 12. *Where:* JW Marriott, 248 Louis St. NW, Grand Rapids, MI *Why:* The goal is to show that people should support farm-to-plate dinning. Farmers and Marriott chefs will demonstrate what local, organic food brings to the table nutritionally and to the area’s economy, and how it is used in the JW Marriott’s restaurant six.one.six. The restaurant obtains more than 90 percent of its menu from local farms. Some of the products are down at the hotel garden including, arugula, spinach, raspberries, elderberries, English peas, French breakfast radishes, thyme, lavender, rosemary, basil and more. *How: *Cost: $125 per person. The class includes an open-air brunch at JW Marriott’s six.one.six, a gardening class with the hotel chefs and Trillium Haven Farm farmers, a tour of Trillium Haven Farm, a family-style al fresco lunch with recently harvested farm product, an Oct. 13 harvest dinner. For reservations call (616) 244-1448. For more information email: * ilovethejw.com* or *trilliumhavenfarm.com*. * Urban Agriculture Garden Tour Dates* ** - **July 20th -Growing Hope (Ypsilanti) bike and bus community garden tour. See *www.growinghope.net* for more info. - July 27th - Garden Project (Lansing) bike community garden tour. Details forthcoming. - July 29th - Garden Project (Lansing) bus community garden tour. Details forthcoming. If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html