SPring Fling 2012
Open House and Afternoon Tea
with the Kick-off for the Whole Farm Affordability Campaign!
Saturday, May 12th, 2012.
Schedule of Events:
9am-12pm ~ Blue Meadow Garden Cleanup - Volunteers Needed! (RSVP)
1pm ~ Kick-off Celebration and Tree Planting for Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust Whole Farm Affordability Campaign
1:45pm ~ Wagon Tour and Walking Tour of the Montague Farm
3pm ~ Afternoon Tea for Mothers and Others (tickets available)
1pm-5pm ~ Open Greenhouse for Plant Sales!
At our Montague greenhouse, the site of the old Blue Meadow Farm
184 Meadow Road, Montague, MA
Come for the whole day, or any part of the afternoon you'd like. The only part you need tickets for is the Afternoon Tea - everything else is free and open to the public!
Garden Cleanup -Volunteers needed
9 am - 12pm - RSVP To Volunteer
Get down and dirty and help us cleaup the old Blue Meadow display gardens (full of crazy beautiful perennial plants, and now invasives). Seeking 10-15 persons slightly experienced in gardening to lend a hand. Email events@redfirefarm.com to RSVP to help out. Tell us if you have gloves or any garden tools you can bring to use. RSVPed volunteers there from 9-12 get free tickets to the Afternoon Tea.
Kick-Off Celebration & Tree Planting for Whole Farm Affordability Campaign
1 pm - OPen to All
Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust kicks off the campaign to preserve the Montague farmland and infrastructure together in perpetuity for the community. Come learn a little more about the campaign and how the farmland to lease model will help provide affordable access to farmland, and also meet the folks from the Land Trust!
Click to find out more about the Whole Farm Affordability Campaign on the PDF flyer from Mount Grace.
Wagon Tour and walking Tour
1:45 pm - OPen to All
Tractor and Wagon Ride Tour around the farm with farmer Ryan, and Walking Tour with farmer Sarah. Open to everyone! Come see the fields, buildings, and greenhouses with a bit of story.
Afternoon Tea on the Farm ~ Reserve Tickets Now!
3 pm - Ticket Holders Only
Enjoy a visit to the farm, and a spot of tea! Bring your mum if you like! We'll be baking some very tasty treats to offer, and a line-up of delicious teas to fortify you in the mid-afternoon.
Afternoon Tea:
Black, Green, and Herbal tea selection
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Home-made cookies, pastries and the like.
Then you can go pick out plants for the garden!
Plants for Sale in the greenhouse - See Everything Growing!
1-5 pm -Open to All
Select plants for your garden from our organically-grown greenhouse, with many options. Flowers, Herbs, Hanging Baskets, Vegetable Starts and more. For herbs, thyme, basil, chocolate mint, pineapple mint, oregano, lemongrass and lavender to name a few. For flowers, magenta and blue torenia, nasturtiums, sweet alyssum, thunbergia, spicy orange nemesia, pansies, petunias, lantana, heliotrope, many colors of sweet potato vine, portulaca, snap dragons, strawflowers and more.
And of course we'll have vegetable plants too. Our favorite field-tested varieties.
The rest of the season our organic plants will be available at our Old Depot Gardens farm stand in Montague (starting April 28th), as well as our farm stand in Granby.
Happy Spring and Happy Mother's Day to All!