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Eat Fresh!

Tomato season is here, and Bachman Community Center is offering a class to show gardeners and farmers market shoppers fresh ways to use the new harvest in their kitchens.

photo Black Creek Club Executive Chef Kenyatta Ashford will show gardeners and farmers market shoppers different ways to use their local tomatoes at Bachman Community Center’s “You Say Tomato…” cooking class Saturday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“Now that some of the community gardeners [at Bachman] and other new gardeners are finally growing a lot of tomatoes, it’s fun to learn to cook those tomatoes,” said Bachman Executive Director Lissa Goeltz.

Black Creek Golf Club Executive Chef Kenyatta Ashford will be the instructor for the “You Say Tomato…” cooking class to be held at Bachman Saturday, July 14 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Ashford previously led several cooking demonstrations during the Signal Mountain Farmers Market held at the center each Thursday, showing shoppers how to make a dish using fresh vegetables available at that week’s market.

The Mountain Stewards organized a class at the center in the fall teaching how to use root vegetables, but Goeltz said this is the first she has arranged.