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Jennifer Simonson
Hutchinson, Minn.

Garlic festival highlights growers -- and eaters

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Irene Bender, dressed as a garlic bulb
Irene Bender, dressed as a garlic bulb, entertains the crowd gathered for the Minnesota Garlic Festival Saturday. Bender, who is from Dassel, Minn., was part of the original committee that started the festival nine years ago.
Jennifer Simonson/MPR News

The Minnesota Garlic Festival description is as the "premier event for lovers of garlic," and there was garlic everywhere -- being eaten, worn and judged. Saturday in Hutchinson at the McLeod County Fairgrounds, brave souls even sampled the garlic ice cream.

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Minnesota-grown garlic bulbs
Minnesota-grown garlic bulbs on display and for sale.
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Irene Bender, dressed as a garlic bulb
Irene Bender, dressed as a garlic bulb, entertains the crowd gathered for the Minnesota Garlic Festival Saturday. Bender, who is from Dassel, Minn., was part of the original committee that started the festival nine years ago.
Jennifer Simonson/MPR News
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Home-grown garlic
Garlic grower Jerry Ford, of Living Song Farm, shows off a bundle of his home-grown garlic. Thirteen Minnesota garlic growers had dozens of varieties for sale, which were suitable to eat or plant.
Jennifer Simonson/MPR News