Autumn is the only season where pumpkins are judged by their personality as well as their performance in the swimsuit competition. Get to know Fall's finest with today's Groupon to Cleveland Botanical Garden's second annual Ripe! Fest. Choose from the following options:

• For $12, you get two admission tickets to Ripe! Fest on Friday, September 23 from 11:00 a.m. until 7:23 p.m. (up to a $24 value).
• For $14, you get two admission tickets to Ripe! Fest on Saturday, September 24 from 11:00 a.m. until 7:21 p.m. (up to a $24 value).
• For $14, you get two admission tickets to Ripe! Fest on Sunday, September 25 from 11:00 a.m. until 7:19 p.m. (up to a $24 value).
  
  

Spread over 10 acres of beautiful outdoor gardens, Cleveland Botanical Garden’s second annual three-day Ripe! Fest celebrates local chefs and farmers with live cooking demonstrations, live musical performances, culinary and gardening programs for children and adults, and a marketplace of vendors who purvey sustainable products. Navigating the festival guides green enthusiasts through nearly one dozen formal and informal gardens, skipping by the pebbled trails of the Japanese garden or sniffing at the aromatic petals of the Mary Ann Sears Swetland rose garden.

Guests craving knowledge can check out a culinary program such as "Backyard Pizza Garden" with chef Dean DeLuciano or gardening programs including "Bees and Honey" by members of Cuyahoga County Beekeepers Association (dates and times TBA). Tremont Tap House and Indigo Imp Brewery tap into their local brews for sips from and dips in their Olympic-sized brewing vats. Children can motor toward the pedal-tractor trail, clamber over the interactive farm funhouse, or discern the palatable variations between gala, red delicious, and juicy-juice apples in a cider-making class. Festivities are held rain or shine and end at sundown.