Food and Farming Events Calendar
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Use our calendar to find festivals, tours, workshops, field days, courses, and many other kinds of food and farming related
events in your area. If you would like us to keep you up to date with any events happening close
to you, make sure to sign up with our keep me posted feature.
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Smith's Nursery Fall Festival
(Oct 13)
Smith's Nursery, Inc. (
Benson, NC
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Spend a fall day on the farm with your family. Wear your favorite costume for the hayride, pick a pumpkin, feed the farm animals, get lost in the millet maze, go fishing or explore the hiking trail. Enjoy local produce, music, food, fire trucks, relay races, corn hole tournament and more.
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Amelia Island Wine Festival
(Oct 13)
Fernandina Farmers Market (
Fernandina Beach, FL
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The inaugural Amelia Island Wine Festival, which will be held waterfront in downtown Fernandina Beach, will feature Florida-only wines and the vintners who make them. Visitors will be able to enjoy tastings with the award-winning vintners and discuss their wines and wineries, as well as purchase bottles or cases.
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Fall Family Fun
(Oct 13 - Oct 14)
Nottawa Fruit Farm (
Centreville, MI
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Fall Family Fun is a collection of several family activities centered around a hayride and picking a pumpkin on fall Saturdays and Sundays. Children are charged $9.95 each (includes a large pumpkin) and adults are free.
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Animal Day for Families
(Oct 13)
Angelic Organics Learning Center (
Caledonia, IL
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Bring your kids to the farm for a day of hands-on experiences with the animals. Help the crew milk the goats, feed the horses, and gather eggs from the chickens. See how you can produce soil from kitchen scraps with worm boxes.
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Livestock 101
(Oct 13)
Ecosystem Farm at the Accokeek Foundation (
Accokeek, MD
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This intensive class covers everything from farm jargon and basic animal anatomy and physiology to basic husbandry through a combination of classroom and field (barnyard) instruction about the various heritage breeds of livestock preserved by the Accokeek Foundation: American Milking Devons, Hog Island Sheep, Ossabaw Hogs, Buckeye Chickens, and Black Turkeys.
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Food and Farming Mixer (A Food Justice Series event)
(Oct 13)
Ecosystem Farm at the Accokeek Foundation (
Accokeek, MD
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The Food and Farming Mixer is a great networking opportunity amongst the farm and food systems community and will feature opportunities to get to know more about the various organizations in the area that are working towards a more sustainable food system.
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Farm open to public for tours
(Oct 13)
Humming Star Alpacas (
Silverhill, AL
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Humming Star Alpacas will be open to the public today. Come meet and learn about the alpacas. Take some time to peruse our beautiful alpaca products and do a little Christmas shopping. $7.00 per person, children 6 and under are free.
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Canning with Master Food Preserver Nancee Siebert
(Oct 13)
Bumpy Road Ranch (
LEONA VALLEY, CA
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Learn canning basics, Apple sauce 3 flavors, candied apples, 1st class of the series. $35.00 and you will take home some goodies!!
Also a raffle with your class payment! Come join us on the farm!
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