Slice, 5th Annual Dinner on the Farm to Support LEFDP
Fine Wine, Organic Multi-Course Dinner, and Live Music in Live Earth Farm’s Espaliered Apple Orchard
2011 Small Plates Walking Tour
On September 14th, the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program will host Slice, the 5th annual organic dinner on the farm supporting the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program. Chef Jonathan Miller of Eat Right at Home will regale guests with fresh, local flavors from the very fields where the fare is served. Paired with sumptuous local wines, and accompanied by live music and a silent auction, this dinner will delight. This is a local food and wine event not to be missed.
Dig!
Watsonville, CA, July 12, 2013 – On September 14th, 2013 Slice, the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program’s 5th annual farm dinner, will feature local chefs, farmers, artisans and winemakers celebrating the abundance grown in the Pajaro Valley. Freshly prepared appetizers will be accompanied by live, acoustic music. After the multi-course wine pairing dinner, the event will culminate with student produced entertainment and dessert in the Espaliered Gala Apple Orchard. This year we are pleased to honor local farmers and producers maintaining the tradition of apple production in the Pajaro Valley.
Pajaro Valley Teens Weeding
Esmeralda is a student at Pajaro Valley High School who wants to go to college. For eight weeks this spring she has learned how to secure and hold a job, cook healthy meals, how to be a conscious consumer in our local and international food system, and how to grow food in LEFDP’s education fields. This summer she is back on the farm for her first job.
Through LEFDP’s programs local, under served youth build confidence in learning to be active caretakers of themselves, their community and their environment. This is why the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program aims to raise $20,000 through Slice, the September 14th fall fundraising event, to support farm visits, transportation costs, and garden supplies for the 1500 students who will visit Live Earth Farm in 2014.
Sponsorship and volunteer opportunities are available, as well as early bird ticket prices until July 19th.
http://liveearthfarm.net/celebrations-events/events/
Dig! Silent Auction under the oaks
The Live Earth Farm Discovery Program (LEFDP) is a farm-based education not for profit organization in Watsonville, California. LEFDP makes seed to mouth, farm to fork, and child to community connections through a variety of hands-on educational programs serving the youth of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and Monterey counties and beyond. A special emphasis is placed on reaching under served people in the Pajaro Valley to bolster individual, community and environmental health.
Annual Summer Solstice Celebration at Live Earth Farm
On June 22nd, the community will gather at Live Earth Farm for their annual Summer Solstice Celebration. This longstanding tradition of celebrating Santa Cruz agriculture at the changing of the seasons will include lots of farming fun for the whole family. Celebrants will be invited to pick and eat warm strawberries right from the field, join Farmer Tom on tractor tours, make pizzettes in the cob oven, milk our goats, make farm fresh cheese, get their faces painted, explore our hay bale fort, and sample craft beer and sausage, all before our potluck, bonfire and live music at sunset.
On June 22nd, 2013, 2pm to dark at 172 Litchfield Lane in Watsonville, the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program’s annual Summer Solstice Celebration, will welcome the local community to the farm to celebrate summer in the fields. Tickets are $10 per car in advance and $15 at the door and can be purchased on the event web page. In keeping with our mission to provide programs for everyone in our community, no on will be turned away.
The LEF Discovery Program entreats guests to participate in our local food system through farm and garden projects and games, goat milking, cob oven baking, a farm stand and several local artisan booths. The day will culminate in a community potluck dinner, bonfire, live music, and fire dancing.
This year we welcome local artisans to share their craft including Penny Ice Creamery, Happy Girl Kitchen Company, Companion Bakeshop, 3 of a Kind Juice and Corralitos Meat Market & Sausage Company. We are also happy to welcome two musical additions Joshua Lowe & the Juncos and Kuzanga Marimba.
The Summer Solstice Celebration is one of three annual, on farm celebrations open to the public; all of which aim to further our mission of helping local, under served youth build confidence in learning to be active caretakers of themselves, their community and their environment. Children and adults will delight in interacting with farmers, animals and harvest, all with expert help and child friendly tools.
We welcome volunteers in number of different capacities including greeters, station leaders, potluck handlers and more. Volunteer and their families attend for free. Please get in touch!
Farm Camps at Live Earth Farm
Please visit
farmdiscovery.org/farm-camp
for 2017 information and registration
We have a really good time at our Summer Camps. Summer is such a brilliant time on the farm. The experience is warm, sunny, bright, and full of flavor. Our days are filled with fun activities designed to encourage creative expression in many different media. We make art, crafts, snacks, preserves, garden beds, and great friends. During the course of the week we plant, weed, harvest, water, cut, cook, can, we weave, print, paint, all in the beautiful setting of Live Earth Farm. We build a community of friends over the course of the week, and even dress each day in a different color. You will notice lots of green in one of these photos from last year’s green day.
We have offered Art on the Farm Camp since 2009. The campers make beautiful nature based art projects, work in our fields and garden and play in our beautiful wild and open spaces. With its focus on art, campers produce about two art projects a day using various media to create both 2 and 3-dimensional pieces. We use the farm as our inspiration and sneak in lots of farming and gardening projects along the way. This year there will be two sessions available, June 17-21 and July 15-19, 3013.
Young Farmers Camp, June 24-28, 2013, is brand new this year. In this camp we will focus less on art and more on farming and gardening projects. Of course, we will spend some of our inspired energy on a little bit of art as well, because art provides a nice, calm, focused balance to a day of using farm tools, working our bodies, and tasting the fruits of our labor. Campers will learn to use and care for farm tools safely. They will learn to plan and grow a garden bed, and they will taste lots of fruits and vegetables. In learning to prepare fresh fruits and vegetables in healthy ways, campers will also learn to use kitchen tools, food science, and nutrition.
Sprouts Camp, July 8-12, 2013, is also a new offering. This camp is for preschoolers and their parents. We will spend the morning using our 5 senses to explore the farm and garden. Preschoolers will plant in the garden, find bugs in the hedgerows, pick fruit off the trees, feed and milk our goats, collect eggs from our chickens, and have a great time exploring our wild spaces. Parents will make new friends with families who care about where their food comes from and have kids the same age. We welcome folks to get in touch and ask lots of questions about this camp, as we are willing to be flexible about allowing siblings, and other family members. We will limit this camp to 10 families.
Another really great part of our camp programs is our Leader in Training (LIT) program. For each camp we have 3 positions for teens over 13. These teens go through a training day, learning outdoor education skills, and take responsibility for a small group of their own campers, who become very attached to their LITs over the course of the week. It is an awesome opportunity for teens to develop leadership and employment skills, while enjoying the outdoors with enthusiastic kids.
Register before April 15th to get the early bird price of $300 per camper for Art and Young Farmers Camps and $200 for Sprouts Camp.
10% Discount for CSA members, returning campers, siblings and coupon holders (only one discount may be applied per family).
Regular price of $350 per camper for Art and Young Farmers Camps and $250 for Sprouts Camp begins on April 16th, 2013
4th Annual Sheep to Shawl Event at Live Earth Farm – 2013
On March 23rd, 2013 the Live Earth Farm Discovery Program will host the 4th annual Sheep to Shawl event at Live Earth Farm. Professional shearer, Bruce Wool, will demonstrate his trade throughout the day, while his wife spins yarn alongside him. Guests will participate in hands on demonstrations of every part of the process of making wool into clothing and art. For the first time this year Storrs Winery will provide tastings while their vineyard grazing baby doll sheep are shorn.
The Live Earth Farm Discovery Programs 4th annual Sheep to Shawl event, will feature hands-on stations demonstrating the entire progression of processing wool, local artisans sharing their wares, and Storrs Winery sampling their local, wine. The event will take place in and around our renovated turn of the century redwood barn rain or shine.
The Sheep to Shawl event is one of three annual, on farm celebrations open to the public; all of which aim to further our mission of helping local under served youth build confidence in learning to be active caretakers of themselves, their community and their environment. Children and adults will delight in interacting with our sheep and shearer, dying yarn, making drop spindles, trying knitting and crocheting, and washing and combing yarn, all with expert help and child friendly tools.
Find more information on our Upcoming Events Page
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