• Where: Breitenbach Wine Cellars in Dover, Ohio, for the 15th Annual Dandelion May Fest .

• When: Today from noon to 7 p.m., tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• How far: About 100 miles from Pittsburgh, in Ohio Amish Country.

• How much: Free

• What to do: Celebrate the Taraxacum officinale's hidden charms at the country's largest gathering of dandelion devotees (as many as 10,000 will come to play). Try dandelion wine and tour a wine cellar. Stroll through a juried dandelion arts and crafts show. Enter the kids in a dandelion-picking contest tomorrow, or watch them make dandelion jelly. Go on a dandelion scavenger hunt. Sample dandelion delicacies at the 15th Annual Dandelion Cookoff.

• Fun factor: 7, because who knew these jagged, bitter-tasting weeds were anything other than a nuisance in your front yard?

-- Gretchen McKay