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BOSTON (WBZNewsRadio) — There's no reason to leave Boston to get your farm on.
Farm Festival kicked off on Sunday at Boston Public Market for a day of live music, discounted produce, and a shucking contest.
The second annual festival celebrated local farmers and all the produce New England has to offer.
"Our farm vendors support over 44 thousand acres of farmland all across New England and Massachusetts and we have farmers that are ice cream and dairy farmers, we have vegetable and produce farmers, we have a meat farmer," Chelsea Doliner, of Boston Public Market, told WBZ's Jay Willett.
Attendees walked through rows of freshly grown produce and meat at discounted prices giving everyone the opportunity to eat local for affordable prices.
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Kate Rogers, of Siena Farms, was handing out sunflower seeds. She said it's great to see so many people coming out to support local farmers after the unseasonable heavy rainfall left many crops destroyed. Last year, New England farmers also had significant crop loss after a long-lasting drought.
"We were walking in swampland up to our knees at times, it's definitely unprecedented after a drought last summer and we saw how much how our tomatoes love those and then this summer, so much flooding that our tomatoes are bursting... not in a good way," Rogers said.
The festival wrapped up with a corn shucking contest to see which corn enthusiast can peel and tear a dozen ears of corn from Stillman's Farm in under a minute.
This year the winner only got to shuck 7 corn tusks, but they will be practicing to beat it next year.
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