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Photos: Harbes Family Farm’s annual Sweet Corn Festival

by Vera Chinese on July 21st, 2014
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Ashlyn Galante, 2, of Mineola chows down at the Harbes Sweet Corn Festival on Sunday. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
Ashlyn Galante, 2, of Mineola chows down at the Harbes Sweet Corn Festival on Sunday. (Credit: Vera Chinese)

It was good ol’ wholesome family fun at Harbes Family Farm on Sunday as the Mattituck farm celebrated 25 years of growing its staple crop, sweet corn.

Festivities at the Sound Avenue agritainment center included tug-of-war, limbo, corn toss and the festival’s marquee event, a corn eating contest.

Click here to read more about the Harbes family’s story.

See the photos from the event below.

Harbes Family Farm mascot Farmer Fred leads a gam of tug-of-war at the Mattituck farm.
Harbes Family Farm mascot Farmer Fred leads a game of tug-of-war at the Mattituck farm.
Alexa Newmann, 3, of Westbury.
Alexa Newmann, 3, of Westbury.
Daniella and Emma Ziering feed Elana Sydney a potato chip.
Daniella and Emma Ziering feed Elana Sydney a potato chip.

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Holly, a three-year-old toy shih tzu from Centereach.
Holly, a three-year-old toy shih tzu.
Eric Strati, Melissa Kirschenheiter, Danielle Ribachonek and Rob Gessner, all of Manhattan.
Eric Strati, Melissa Kirschenheiter, Danielle Ribachonek and Rob Gessner, all of Manhattan.
Courtnie Nelson of Centerreach and Ally Mihailovich of Selden,
Courtnie Nelson of Centereach and Ally Mihailovich of Selden,
Ed Harbes III thanked his customers.
Ed Harbes III thanking his customers for the farm’s success.
The corn eating contest.
The corn eating contest.
The corn eating contest.
The corn eating contest.
The corn eating contest.
The corn eating contest.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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