Prosser Food & Wine Fair

Prosser Food & Wine Fair. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

The Prosser Food and Wine Fair has had some issues recently in finding a new home after the Prosser School District declined to grant them a waiver to hold the event where it has been held for the past 26 years. Fair president Susan Webber says they have found a new home.

WEBBER: This will be our 28^th year. The first one was at the Catholic church and then we moved to the Prosser School and this year we are going to move to WSU Prosser. We’re going to have to do some changes but in the end I think it’s going to be some positive changes.

The hope is to move the fair permanently to the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center once it is completed in another year or so. Webber talks about the fair itself.

WEBBER: We have 30 wineries and 20 food vendors and we’re going to have two local breweries also this year. We also are probably going to do some educational things along with the event this year. They’re not planned as yet; we’re still kind of working on that.

With the move to the WSU facility there has been a need to do some revamping. Webber says the date of Aug 8 remains but:

WEBBER: We have actually changed our times. It’s 2 o’clock to 8 o’clock, those are new times. Just a little FYI, the tickets really don’t go on sale until May 1^st and by May 1^st we’re going to have an online ticket up and running.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.