Grow And Share

Hello, friends of Grow And Share.

Our latest newsletter is now available online. This includes information on volunteer needs, upcoming free gardening classes, and our combined Garden Plant Giveaway & Music Festival 2012.

For those of you interested in selling goods or handing out information during the festival, or sponsoring it outright, please review the supporter details flyer available on this link.

 We look forward to helping you grow your gardens, eat well, and share your harvest in 2012!

Our second annual fundraiser, the Grow And Share Music Festival 2010, will be held Labor Day Weekend near Raleigh NC.

The festival will again this year have Farm Education Stations.  We are seeking farmers to come and share what they know, from the very basics through intermediate farming and food growing topics.

Can you come and spend the day with us and share what you've learned with adults and children?  If so, contact me via Local Harvest, or call 1.919.269.5414.

Thank you!

Grow And Share Music Festival 2010 fundraiser confirmed for Sunday, September 5th 2010.

This music festival is a fundraiser for Grow And Share, a non-profit fighting hunger through widespread gardening, produce sharing, and community building.

With live music, great food, farm education stations, gardening info, games, and family fun, this is a great event to attend as part of your Labor Day Weekend!

Admission and parking are free! Funds will be raised through donations, raffles, and sale of food and goodies.

Sponsorships and booths are available. Call 1.919.269.5414.

While finalizing details for our upcoming fundraiser/music festival, we were invited to visit one of the farms serving as a "farm education station" during the event: Vollmer Farm in Bunn NC.  Vollmer is coming to the festival to educate attendees on several local crops and on milk production.

Now, we have been to the farm many times.  We’ve picked strawberries with the kids and with the grandkids too.  We had seen Vollmer’s signs mentioning their hayride.  We didn’t give too much thought to it, though, because we could see the whole farm — we thought — and figured that the hayride was just a turn around the area we could see.

We were soooo wrong!

Melissa met us at the farm’s market.  She drove us beyond where we thought the farm ended, and into their “Back Forty”.  There were buildings all over and more fields!

Melissa showed us the wagons used for hayrides, the big corn maze, concession stands, greenhouses, kids' pumpkin field, and more!  This “hidden” area included the biggest trampoline I’ve seen — an in-the-ground, pumpkin-colored marvel!  I’ll bet a dozen adults could jump on it at the same time, as it had to have been at least 50 feet long and is likely much longer!  There was even a 40ft underground slide, which they are soon expanding to 100ft.

Amazing, truly amazing, that we had lived so close to such a treasure — and had kids at home we wanted to do things with — and hadn’t found out about their farm fun until now! Needless to say, when Vollmer Farm opens up the Back Forty in September, we will be taking the children, and may even stay for one of the Saturday afternoon bonfires Melissa mentioned!