Each year, we try to bring you the best in garlic lectures from experts in growing, braiding, storing and otherwise handling Allium Sativa. During festival hours, you can almost always find our friends from the Garlic Seed Foundation over at their tent, demonstrating how best to braid garlic. As well, we have a planned set of demonstrations by garlic experts who provide their own special insights.

Here is the 2007 lecture and entertainment schedule, click 2007 festival schedule.

We will update the list of garlic lecturers that will appear in 2008 in early September. For some insights into the quality of our lecturers and the types of topics that are typically covered, consider the garlic lecture biographical info from our 2007 lecturers:

• Bob Dunkel is the editor of ''The Garlic Press'', the official publication of the Garlic Seed Foundation(www.garlicseedfoundation.info/). Bob has been growing and testing out varieties of garlic for 26 years. He is devoted to garlic growing, without the use of chemical or artificial supplements. He and his Garlic Seed Foundation colleagues have been with the festival since its first year at Cantine Field.
• Shane J. LaBrake is the Senior Agricultural Consultant of the Accokeek Foundation in Accokeek, MD. Shane has presented workshops at many sustainable agriculture conferences in the Northeastern States. Shane has also served on many boards and committees, and was a founder of the Northeast On-Farm Mentor Network.
  As the Accokeek Foundation's Senior Agricultural Consultant, Shane continues to work in the arena of new and beginning farmer education, and is helping the Foundation in its research to further develop and expand its Center for Land-Based Training. He is currently creating a variety of educational forums on agricultural topics ranging from organic gardening to chainsaw operation.

  At this year's Hudson Valley Garlic Festival, Shane will speak about "Growing Garlic in Various Climates".

• Ted Maczka is known as the "Johnny Appleseed of Garlic" as he gives away free garlic seed all over the United States. His Canadian farm is an experimental station for the testing of cold-hardy strains of garlic and he will talk about his revolutionary new way of growing garlic.

• David Stern, owner of Rose Valley Farm, is the founder and president of the Garlic Seed Foundation, whose membership is devoted to growing and collecting information about the culture of garlic in many different sections of the country.
• Betsy Williams has been in the business of growing, selling, decorating and teaching about living with herbs since 1970. Trained as a florist in Boston and England, she combines her floral skills with an extensive knowledge of history, plantlore and seasonal celebrations to create uniquely beautiful fresh and dried floral arrangements for weddings and private homes. She draws on this same knowledge in her entertaining lectures, weaving stories and legends throughout her informative talks. She was the 1995 recipient of the International Herb Associations Professional Award for "Her Outstanding Contributions to the Herb Industry".

• Bob Yerina is the owner of Garlic Delite Farms in Little Falls, NY. He has been participating in the Hudson Valley Garlic Festivalsú since their start in 1992. He has been growing garlic for many years and is a renowned expert in the special braiding technique required for ''hard neck'' garlic.



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2008 Hudson Valley
Garlic Festival™
September 27 & 28, 2008