It’s almost time to reap the harvest — SomerHarvest, that is. Tickets are currently on sale for this year’s SomerHarvest event, an annual farm-to-table meal held in downtown Somerset by the non-profit Somerset Junior Woman’s Club (SJWC). This year’s event will be held on Thursday, September 5 at 6:30 p.
m., at its usual home on the Judicial Center Plaza. In its earliest incarnations, the meal took place at one long table down East Mt.
Vernon Street, but breaking it up into several tables — still of substantial length — on the plaza has proven to be beneficial for the organizers and still allows a sense of community coming together to break bread — literally and figuratively. That can be an important thing in a time when people are divided and often too on the go to really enjoy a meal with good company the old-fashioned way. “It will be a nice time for everyone to be together for the common goal of enjoying a good dinner,” said SJWC organizer Wynona Padgett.
“I think we’re either stuck going through fast-food drive-thrus all the time because of our busy lives, or it’s just sometimes the two, three, four people (in a) family that have dinner together every evening. This kind of gives everyone that opportunity to sit down with other people they may or may not know and just be happy.” Cost of tickets is $50, and only 100 will be sold.
Proceeds benefit the various local causes of the SJWC, as well as Somerset Community College scholarship opportunities..