This year’s Roxbury Russet Festival has an all-star lineup of activities for all to enjoy! From 12pm - 4pm, attendees will find:
Crafts and activities (BINGO is back with some fun prizes!)
Snacks and sweet apple cider from local orchards
Local resources on farming and where to find fresh, seasonal produce in your community
Demonstrations of cider pressing on a replica historic cider press
Live music from the Seth Meicht Jazz Trio
A visit from 19th century Roxbury pear whiz Enoch Bartlett
And more!
Most exciting, it’s all FREE to the public thanks to support from GrowBoston!
The fun doesn’t stop when the festival ends. Right at 4pm, we’ll be hosting a 21+ craft beer tasting with brews from Long Live Roxbury, including a small-batch graff beer created exclusively for the festival featuring Terpenes from Rooted In! Once you grab some beer, we'll have a seat for a lecture by Helen Humphreys, author of The Ghost Orchard: The Hidden History of the Apple in North America. Parents are welcome to bring their little ones - wristbands will be issued at the door for those above 21 who will be participating in the tasting.
Online registration for the craft beer tasting is highly encouraged, as space is limited. Registration is $35 per person and includes beer tasting, a dinner buffet, and admission to the lecture.
About our evening speaker:
Helen Humphreys is the award-winning author of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her books have been translated and published all over the world, and have been optioned for film, television, stage, dance, and opera. She lives in Kingston, Ontario, where she is the Director of Creative Writing at Queen's University. Her latest book is a novel about the life of Henry David Thoreau entitled Followed By the Lark, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February 2024.
This event is co-hosted by:
Rooted In Roxbury was founded in 2018 by two local Roxbury couples, business owners who saw the opportunity to make a difference, not only in the cannabis industry but in their local community and neighborhoods. Rooted In’s mission is to build a community-conscious cannabis business, committed to engaging, serving and benefiting the members of the community through financial success and social responsibility.
Minority & Locally Owned
From the community, for the community.
Long Live Roxbury Taproom & Brewery is passionate about creating hop-forward beer and playful stouts and sours, with a focus on creating memorable experiences for neighbors and visitors from all over. Their Roxbury location hosts a variety of community events, from Thursday Jazz Nights to bi-weekly Saturday yoga, as well as a gathering space for local beer lovers. They also have a taproom and brewery in Providence, RI.
Black Brew Dialogues is moving conversations about diversity and inclusion forward in the craft beer world. Initially a limited-run series from Collin Knight, owner of Live Like a Local Tours, Black Brew Dialogues has expanded into a continued initiative to highlight brewers and beer lovers from all backgrounds and walks of life, especially those underrepresented in the brewing industry.