Are You Ready for the Harvest Dinner?

At this year’s event, Saturday, Nov. 1, ‘It’s About the Berries’

Agricultural History Project’s biggest fundraising event of the year is almost here! The 29th Annual Harvest Dinner is Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Crosetti Building on the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. This year’s theme is “It’s the Berries” celebrating the long history of the berry industry and its continuing success in our area.

The event starts at 5:30 p.m. and a delicious dinner will be prepared and served at 7 p.m. by Monterey Bay Caterers. Music will be provided by Sagebrush. Proceeds from the Harvest Dinner are counted on to make up about 50 percent of AHP’s annual operating expenses, so it’s important to take this opportunity to support the Ag History Project with your bids on silent and live auction items.

There have been many fabulous moments at past Harvest Dinners. Bill and Cloy Codiga gave the AHP $180,000 to build the Codiga Center and Museum at a past dinner.

Every dinner has had a theme. The first year a din­ing room was created to resemble how a threshing crew would have eaten de­cades ago. When hops was the theme at the “Hop To It” Harvest Dinner, members of the board brought their favorite 6-pack to auction off.

Among the many spectacu­lar items this year is a field trip and dinner by Lakeside Organic Gardens, fabulous group dinners by both Lynn Gonzales and Lo­retta Estrada, a toy tractor from C&N Tractors, a lovely hand-crafted bookcase and cutting board made by Bar­ney Stephens, scrumptious desserts created by Jeri Oneto, trips to San Francisco and Disneyland, and an antique drill press.

So gather your friends and family. Tickets are $60 each. Please make your reservations online at www.ahpharvest­dinner2014bpt.me or by calling the Ag History Project at (831) 724-5898.

All paid reservations will be waiting at check-in just inside the door. See you on Saturday, the first day of November

From the Agricultural History Project October 2014 Good Neighbor Newsletter