Enterprise Dispatch Blog

Follow your nose to the MN Garlic Festival at the Wright County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Aug. 16, where Howard Lake Mayor Richard Lammers and the Good Neighbor Days Royalty will be participating in the opening ceremony and other events.
The “Throwing Out the First Bulb” ceremony will be at 10 a.m. with Mayor Lammers pitching a garlic bulb to Festival Director, Jerry Ford, and then the gates officially open.
The 2008-2009 Howard Lake Royalty will also participate in presenting awards to the festival’s celebrity chefs throughout the day.
In the light humored and family friendly spirit of MN Garlic Festival, we asked the Royalty to describe their favorite garlic food.
HLWW High School senior Brittney Utne, Miss Howard Lake, went for the old standard: spaghetti with lightly toasted garlic bread.
Howard Lake Princess Jackie Randall, also a senior who is involved in dance, cross country track, drama and choir at HLWW, prefers garlic roasted chicken.
And Junior Ambassador McCall Kleve, a ninth grader, says “yum” to garlic pita chips and garlic pasta.
They will all be delighted with the cuisine prepared by our celebrity chefs in the festival restaurant, The Great Scape, and they will present “The Royal Order of the Allium Sativum” sashes to the chefs during the cooking demonstrations on the main stage.
MN Garlic Festival is presented by the Sustainable Farming Association of MN, Crow River Chapter, in support of family farms, vital rural communities, a healthy environment and locally produced foods.  You can read more at  www.sfa-mn.org, or contact Festival Director Jerry Ford at (320) 543-3394.