Pawpaw Palooza
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Celebrate North America’s largest native fruit at Pawpaw Palooza. Sample creative uses of this regional treasure while enjoying local food, drinks, shopping, and live music.
Festival Highlights
12pm - Festival Opening Bell
1pm - Pawpaw 101
Curious about pawpaws? Join horticulture extension agent and pawpaw enthusiast Christian Flores for Pawpaw 101, a one-hour talk and Q&A covering the basics of growing, harvesting, and enjoying this unique native fruit.
3pm, 4pm, 5pm - Garden Tours
Tours depart from the Little Pond Gardens booth on the hour
3-6pm - Live Music with Forest Rising
Rock out with genre-spanning Raleigh-based Forest Rising
Arts & Crafts
Stop by the Roam Paint Press art truck for botanically-inspired craft projects
Tenant Specials
Fair Game: Pawpaw liqueur, pawpaw shrub, pawpaw cocktails and mocktails
Rachel's Native Plants: 1-gallon pawpaw trees for sale! Last year, these completely sold out, so if you want to guarantee a pawpaw tree please pre-order from Rachel: info@rachelsnativeplants.com
Little Havana: Pawpaw soft serve ice cream
Vendor Market
Browse local makers, producers, and artisans.
Pawpaw trees and seeds for sale! In addition to Rachel's Native Plants, we'll have one more vendor on-site. Trees and seeds will be available in a limited limited quantity, on a first-come, first-serve basis
Join us as a vendor: https://www.theplantnc.com/popupvendornc
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