Garfield Farm Museum delivers a delicious taste of the past and future with its 19th annual Heirloom Garden Show from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24.

Only those crops, fruits and vegetables that can survive well with a minimum of oil inputs, and hotter and drier extremes, and grow in less productive soils will be critical for such an uncertain future of change, said event planners. The Heirloom Garden Show reflects hundreds of years of breeding varieties of plants to meet different conditions. It will feature gardeners and produce growers from the Great Lakes region.

Many of the exhibitors are members of the Seed Savers Exchange of Iowa, which has expanded to an 889-acre site with 51 organic and isolated garden plots to prevent cross-pollination of the 3,000 varieties grown each year out of a 25,000-variety collection. Seed Savers annually receives a portion of the show’s proceeds.

The focal point of the museum, the 1846 brick tavern, will be open for tours. Food and refreshments will be available from Inglenook Pantry of Geneva.

For information, call (630) 584-8485 or e-mail info@garfieldfarm.org. The museum is five miles west of Geneva off Route 38 on Garfield Road. The historically intact former 1840s Illinois prairie farmstead is being restored as an 1840s working farm museum by donors and volunteers from around the country. Visit www.garfieldfarm.org.