Letter: Mushroom Festival grants might be best kept secret in area

To The Editor: One of the Best Kept Secrets in Kennett Square… The Mushroom Festival! Well it’s not the festival itself that is a secret; the Festival is well known and rated as one of the best food festivals in the nation. What I am talking about are the grants that the Mushroom Festival provides to local non-profits. The Festival raises tens of thousands of dollars each year, which they then...

Mushroom Festival now accepting grant applications

Some of the 33 organizations receiving grants in 2010 rode the Grant Recipient float in the 2010 Mushroom Festival Parade. KENNETT SQUARE — Each year the Mushroom Festival awards thousands of dollars to local, community-based non-profit organizations based on the proceeds from the previous year’s Festival. After a successful 2010 Festival, our 25th festival, we’ll be able to help many local organizations...