Mushroom foraging Roger Goos from URI's department of Biological Sciences will teach a two-hour classroom session at Barrington Middle School at 7 p.m. tonight on foraging for wild mushrooms. It is not a cooking course. The class will take a mushroom-hunting field trip Saturday, Sept. 30. Call Barrington Community Schools, 245-0432. The annual South County Museum harvest festival and apple pie contest takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, on the museum grounds at Canonchet Farm, off Route 1A, Narragansett, across from Narragansett Town Beach.
Admission is free.
A free shuttle operates to and from the town beach parking lot. The festival includes food, crafts, games and demonstrations. The museum exhibits of life long ago in South County are also open. Today is the last day for placing advance orders for the prepared foods. The makers of Alize liqueur are sponsoring a national recipe contest for women chefs.