LIRX || First Fall Festival
Garlic Festival || Riverhead, N.Y.
The 20th Annual Long Island Garlic Festival, hosted by Garden of Eve Farm, is an awesome way to kickstart the fall season. With live music all day, and local vendors featuring a wide variety of garlic-inspired foods and crafts, this event has been a Long Island family tradition on the North Fork for the past two decades.
LIRX is stoked. to be a part of the music lineup. Our veteran collective of musician creatives will have you wanting more as you experience your favorite hits from various decades with some modern reimagined surprise twists - and some garlic of course!
A Little About Garden of Eve Organic Farm & Market . . .
Chris and Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht founded Garden of Eve organic farm in 2001, dedicated to providing delicious organic vegetables, fruits and beautiful flowers and to “making changes in the world by living them.”
Chris grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. He spent ten years in the world of clean water advocacy, working as an organizer and manager for the nonprofit group Citizens Campaign for the Environment. He graduated from SUNY Cobleskill with a degree in Geology.
Eve worked on horse farms and had a vegetable garden as a kid, and always sought to spend most of her time outdoors. While starting the farm, Eve worked as a land preservation advocate with the North Fork Environmental Council and as Principal Planner for the Town of Southampton. She holds a BA from Harvard in Environmental Science and a MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Check out Garden of Eve Organic Farm & Market's website for more information about admission, music lineup, and local vendors. See you on the main stage!