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Red leaf lettuce growing in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) People's Garden, on Friday, October 30, 2015, in Washington, D.C. A Harvest Festival is being held to celebrate the end of the 2015-growing season in the People’s Garden, at the USDA Farmers Market. Activities include how-to build a hoop house, talks with experts about food storage and cooking tips, tasting chef Eliza Gonzalez’s Roasted Butternut Squash with Ancho Mole, harvest the type of red leaf lettuce growing onboard the International Space Station, talks about space gardening and this space-farm-to-fork mission, seeing a section of the People’s Garden Apiary, taste and see a variety of growing mushrooms with recipes, nutrition information, tips and tastings thanks to the American Mushroom Institute and the Mushroom Council, learn all about cotton and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service Cotton and Tobacco Program, explore the DC Central Kitchen Truck Farm, a traveling edible exhibit, and more. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.