Hanging out at Farm Day 2008. (Grant Livingston was the musician last year.)
Farm Day
Come to the country!
Fun for the whole family!
Sunday, December 20
11:30 am – 3:30 pm
* Food * Activities * Hay Rides *
* Farm Market *
Locally-grown seasonal organic produce, dried fruit, heirloom tomato plants for sale.
* Live Music *
With Jennings & Keller: Fusion Folk Americana
Your optional $10 donation helps support our internship and student artist programs
and includes a chance to win a Smith & Hawken BioStack Composter ($129 value).
Directions:
From southbound US1, turn right (west) onto Bauer Drive (SW 264 St.) and go approx. 5 miles. The farm is about 1/3 mile past Redland Road (SW 187 Ave.) Look for the farm sign and flags.
This is Bee Heaven Farm’s annual open house. Every year more and more people show up. Last year over 200 folks participated in the event. Here’s some tips so you can have more fun: Get there early! Bring your kids, but leave the dogs at home. Bring a covered dish to share in the potluck. Bring money to buy veggies, honey, fresh herbs and flowers, and other farm goodies. Bring old clothes to make scarecrows.
Most of the local farmers who have been growing food for the CSA will be at the party. Confirmed rsvp’s: Robert Barnum of Possum Trot Nursery who will cook local foods and roast corn. Hani Khouri of Redland Mediterranean Organics will have goat milk ice cream, goat cheese and authentic Lebanese dishes, and will bring his fryer to make falafel. Still waiting on rsvp’s: Cliff Middleton and the other Clifton of Three Sisters Farm (callaloo and yuca); Gabriele Marewski of Paradise Farms (oyster mushrooms), Dan Howard of Homestead Organics (green beans, yellow squash, zucchini) and Murray Bass of Wyndham Organics (avocados).
The donations collected will go toward two very worthy causes. Farm Day overlaps during Art Loves Farms, an art students residency at Bee Heaven. Eight students from DASH will be living on the farm for four days making art, which will be exhibited at a later date. The donations will be split between an honorarium for a guest artist who will give a workshop with the students, and farm internship expenses. Almost all the farm workers are interns or volunteers who have come from all over the United States, sharpening their farming skills learning how to grow new crops. Some of the volunteers/interns have gone on to run farms of their own. (Oh, and if you see a videographer roaming around, that would be me documenting both events.)
Here are some pictures from last year’s Farm Day.
Sylvia, CSA member and site host, shopping at the mini market.
Kids of all ages get up close with a real tractor.
All aboard for a hayride.
When was the last time you made a scarecrow?
Redland Rambles 
How did the farm fare from all the rains and wind yesterday? Did you guys get any flooding down there? I wonder if the ground will be swampy tomorrow for the farm day? I think of all the little sprouts struggling to survive and not break as the wind rages off the bay outside my window! Doesn’t Mutha Naytcha know I paid for those crops?!!
Come on down for Farm Day and visit your food! The muddy spots have dried up and the crops are doing just fine. I heard there was some standing water on Friday, but it’s all gone now. The little sprouts are just flourishing, you’ll see.
Awwww! I wanted to go but had a cocktail party the night before and it went pretty late and I was tired from four days of shopping and cooking. But I want to get down there and walk through the fields and smell the earth. Was it fun? Good turnout?
I’ve posted some ideas for this week too.
Excuses excuses… 😉 Am sure a farm visit can be arranged. Send Margie an email and come on down! I’m usually there on Fridays taking a picture of the share (unless I’m not).
Where do you live? maybe we can go together…but you are already down there aren’t you Marian? I’d love to go down on a Friday and check it all out!
I’m there now, documenting Art Loves Farms, a student artists residency, which runs through Wednesday. Will be back there next week Friday. If you want to coordinate a ride down, contact me directly at redlandrambles(at)gmail.com and we’ll talk!
Hi Marian,
I attended Farm Day and I saw you with a cool prosumer cam. Will you post you video on-line anytime soon? I would love to link you to my YouTube website or wordpress blog. I document for Homestead MediaJive.
Pia
mediajive@gmail.com
Thank you, I’ll keep your email for the future. I doubt I’ll be going anywhere on that Friday, I’m working the two nights before. Looking forward to meeting you in the New Year!
Hi Pia, wish you had come up and introduced yourself on Sunday! Am busy shooting Art Loves Farms activities through Wednesday. Then I’ll go into seclusion and edit (otherwise known as tear my hair out). Will let you and the rest of the world know when and where video gets posted online. Stay tuned! Marian
OK let me know by email when’s a good time for you. You can ride along with me or we can meet at the farm. The season is still young.
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