Like all things berries?

The 4th Annual Native Berry Festival is June 20 in Herring Run Park, off Belair Road, from noon to 5 p.m. There will be live music, native plants, exhibitors, games for kids, and yes, lots of native berries and berry related events -- including a native berry dessert contest.

The event is FREE. 

About that berry contest: Celebrity judges include the chef-owners of Clementine and Chameleon and others. The winning dessert will be featured for a limited time on the menu at Clementine. (For a donation, you can get a taste of the entries.)

There will also be food from Big Bad Wolfe BBQ and drinks from Brewers Art and Boordy Vineyards for sale. Live music from the Stone Hill Allstars,  Joy Ike and Satabdi Express.

Also on hand will be an actual FEMA trailer, named the Armadillo, deployed after Hurricane Katrina that MIT in Boston turned into a mobile and sustainable community garden.  There will be instruction on how to build gardens out of other recycled materials. 

Side Street Projects -- a mobile artist nonprofit based in Pasadena, Calif. that recently won The Armadillo after a nationwide search by MIT -- is offering the container for show. The group is seeking donations of clean 2-liter soda bottles, plastic grocery bags, and old telephone and Internet cables for use at the planter workshop.

The event will benefit the Herring Run Watershed Association, which works on watershed restoration, tree plantings, rain gardens, stream clean-ups and stormwater management. For more information, call 410-254-1577.

Baltimore Sun photo of Herring Run Park by Kim Hairston