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By Lorie Hutson lorieh@spokesman.com(509) 459-5446

WSU organic tomatoes ready

Step aside tasteless supermarket tomatoes – the fruit from Washington State University’s organic garden in Pullman are ripe and ready to hit area markets.

Organic farm workers – most of them students – will harvest some 250 pounds of tomatoes this week and up to 600 pounds a week when the season peaks in September. The garden grows 10 varieties.

Although most of the tomatoes are distributed to members of the farm’s community-supported agriculture program, others are sold to Pullman’s South Fork Public House, farm stands and markets. Find out more about the garden at www.css.wsu.edu/ organicfarm/.

The tomatoes and other produce are sold at:

• WSU Terrell Mall, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Wednesdays through September.

• Pullman Farmers Market, 240 N.E. Kamiaken St., 3:30-6 p.m., Wednesdays through mid-September.

• The Farm Stand, WSU Organic Farm, Tukey Orchard at Terre View Drive and Airport Road, Pullman, 3-6 p.m., Fridays through October.

Vine to Wine event Sept. 7

There’s a delicious excuse to go to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture on Sept. 7. Alan Busacca, a consultant and former Washington State University professor of geology, agriculture and soil science, will give a lecture on local soils and how terroir affects fine wine.

The free lecture is part of the current Smithsonian exhibit, “Dig It! The Secrets of Soil,” which runs through Sept. 22. It begins at 6 p.m. in the MAC auditorium, 2316 W. First Ave. It will be followed by a wine tasting at 6:45 p.m. for $10 per person. The MAC is open for First Friday from 5-8 p.m. that evening with free admission to the galleries. More information is online at www. northwestmuseum.org.

Begin ‘Pig Out’ prep now

Better start fasting – Pig Out in the Park is about to descend on Riverfront Park.

They will fire up fryers and grills Aug. 29, for six days of gastronomic excess. Entrees are $9.25 or less. Food is sold each day from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Plan your attack by looking at the food booths online (the details on music are there, too) at spokanepigout.com.