Tag Archives: Farm Tour

Almuerzo y Aprendizaje en el Campo: conservación en el Farley Center y la Granja Los Abuelos

, , , , ,

Sept. 9, 2024

En este dia del campo en el Farley Center, puedes ver prácticas de conservación en vivo en la granja, ¡y también tomar un almuerzo grátis hecha de ingredientes agrícolas y locales! Será una gira por las granjas del Farley Center con un enfoque en cómo los granjeros integran prácticas de conservación en sus operaciones. Ven para aprender las varias prácticas de conservación que son elegibles para fondos del Servicio de Conservación de Recursos Naturales del Departamento del Estado de Agricultura (USDA NRCS, por sus siglos en inglés). Juan Gonzalez, granjero de (Los Abuelos Farley Farm & Los Jalapenos CSA) será alla para compartir sus experiencias en implementar prácticas de conservación en su granja.

Empleados de NRCS van a estar disponible allá para compartir información de programas a fondos disponibles para granjeros urbanos, de escala pequeña, y/o miembro de un grupo que ha sufrido discriminación históricamente. Empleades de Go Farm Connect y Wisconsin Women in Conservation compartirán cómo pueden ayudarle a ustéd en alcanzar sus goles de conservación y pedir fondos del NRCS. Interpretación a español será disponible, con recursos específicos para granjeros hispano-hablantes.

https://www.gofarmconnect.org/…/almuerzo-y-aprendizaje…

Almuerzo y Más
Se proporicionan almuerzo, bebidas y más, según las restricciones dietarias notado en su forma de inscripción.

Cómo Vestirse
Prepáranse para la clima (sombrero, gafas de sol, crema de sol, botella de agua, chaqueta, segun el ambiente), ya que estaremos afuera del casa sin sombra en mucho del evento. Contacten a Seth Riley por farm@farleycenter.org o 608-485-2761 con otras preguntas acerca del evento.

Quíen deben asistir
Todo el mundo está invitado a asistir y aprender, incluso granjeros nuevos o aspirantes, familia, amigos, y profesionales de apoyo cultural y profesional. ¡Traen amigos y familia con sueños agricolas!

En el caso de lluvia: Reprogramaremos para el lunes, 16 septiembre, mismo plan y horario. Por favor chequen su email la mañana del lunes 9 septiembre para saber si vamos a cambiar el evento a la semana próxima, ya que solo lo cambiaremos si es absolutamente necesario.

Acerca de Go Farm Connect
¿Estás confundido por todas las oficinas, programas, y acrónimos federales? ¿Necesitas ayuda para encontrar los recursos adecuados?
Navegar por los programas del USDA puede ser abrumador, confuso e intimidante. ¡Lo entendemos! Somos un equipo de agricultores con experiencia con estas programas, comprometido a ayudar a conectarse con los programas adecuados. Ofrecemos servicios GRATUITOS que se enfocan en diferentes aspectos del desarollo de un negocio agrícola exitoso. Podemos proporcionar un Conector para que sea una guía personal, entrenador y aliado que comparta su objetivo de administrar una operación agrícola exitosa.

Go Farm Connect es una iniciativa liderada por agricultores para construir relaciones entre agricultores de cultivos especializados históricamente desatendidos (nuevos, mujeres, veteranos, BIPOC y inmigrantes) y las agencias agrícolas federales. Nuestros Conectores están capacitados para ayudar a las granjas de todos los tamaños y especialidades en Minnesota y Wisconsin a acceder a programas de asistencia agrícola. El proyecto de tres años está dirigido por Renewing The Countryside en asociación con el Departamento de Agricultura del Estados Unidos, la Agencia de Servicios Agrícolas y el Servicio de Conservación de Recursos Naturales. El registro a través de este enlace es útil para que el personal del USDA pueda estar avisado de las preguntas que desea que te respondan. El personal de Go Farm Connect puede tomar fotos y videos en este evento para promover programas y eventos futuros. Su confirmación de asistencia le da permiso para ser fotografiado. Por favor, hágale saber a un Conector en el evento si desea que no se le tomen fotos.

Regístrate aquí
https://www.gofarmconnect.org/…/almuerzo-y-aprendizaje…

Lunch & Learn Field Day

, , , , ,

Sept. 9, 2024

Join us at the Farley Center to see exciting agricultural conservation practices in action on the farm (and get free lunch featuring fresh local farm ingredients!) Participants will have the chance to tour farms at the Farley Center, see how farmers have integrated conservation practices into their operations, and learn about diverse agricultural conservation practices that are eligible for funding through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Wisconsin. Farmer Juan Gonzalez Torres (Los Abuelos Farley Farm & Los Jalapenos CSA) will join us to share about his on-farm conservation practices.

NRCS staff will be there to meet participants and share about programs and funding available to small-scale, urban, and historically underserved producers. Go Farm Connect and Wisconsin Women in Conservation staff will talk about how they can support you in getting started on your conservation goals and applying for NRCS funding. Spanish interpretation will be provided, and we’ll talk about specific resources for Spanish-speaking growers.

Please RSVP here:
https://www.gofarmconnect.org/…/lunch-learn-field-day…

Lunch & Snacks
We’ll provide lunch, snacks, and beverages onsite, according to dietary restrictions noted in the registration form you complete.

What to Bring & Wear
Come prepared for the weather (e.g., hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, water bottle, light jacket or rain jacket in case of sprinkles), as we will be outside and sometimes unshaded throughout the event. Please contact Catie DeMets at catie@rtcinfo.org or 608-466-0070 with any further questions regarding the event.

Who Should Attend
All interested parties are invited to attend and learn, including beginning and prospective growers, family, friends, and cultural and agricultural support professionals. Bring family and friends with farm dreams!

Rain date: Monday, September 16th, 2024, same timing and plan. Please check your email on the morning of Monday, September 9th in case we make the call to switch to the rain date; we will only reschedule if absolutely necessary.

Please RSVP here:
https://www.gofarmconnect.org/…/lunch-learn-field-day…

Are you lost in an alphabet soup of federal acronyms? Need help finding the right resources?

Navigating USDA programs can be overwhelming, confusing and intimidating. We get that! We’ve pulled together an experienced team of farmers to help you connect to the right programs. We offer FREE services that focus on different aspects of building a successful farm business. We can provide a Connector to be a personal guide, coach, and ally who shares your goal of running a successful farm operation.

Go Farm Connect is a farmer-led initiative to build relationships between historically underserved specialty crop farmers (beginning, women, veterans, BIPOC and new Americans) and federal farm agencies. Our Connectors are trained to help farms of all sizes and specialties in Minnesota and Wisconsin access agricultural assistance programs. The three-year project is led by Renewing The Countryside in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency, and Natural Resources Conservation Service. Registration through this link is helpful so that USDA staff can be aware of what questions you might want answered. Go Farm Connect staff may take photos and videos at this event to promote programs and future events. Your RSVP gives your permission to be photographed. Please let a Connector know at the event if you want to be kept out of photos.

Please RSVP here:
https://www.gofarmconnect.org/…/lunch-learn-field-day..

Farley Center Fall Festival 2024

, , , , , , , , , ,

10-6-24

Farley Center Fall Festival 2024

Come join us for the Farley Center Fall Celebration 2024- Open House and Apple Cider Day! Pick apples, wash apples, slice apples and press the apples in the 180 year old cider press! Come join us on a tour of the Natural Path Sanctuary, farm or bees. Listen to music and have a great time!

Please bring your baked apple treats (and other treats) to share with others!

Farley Center honey will be available for sale by Beekeepers Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten. Beekeepers will have information if you are interested in being a Farley Center Beekeeper!

Farley Center farmers will be selling fresh, organic vegetables at the Market Table.

Donations will be accepted to go toward the purchase of buying the next planting of fruit trees. All are welcome! Invite your friends on this facebook invitation and share this post!

RAIN OR SHINE!

FALL FESTIVAL TOUR SCHEDULE
11:15 Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) Tour – Farley Center Director Shedd Farley
12:15 Farm Tour with Farm Manager, Seth Riley
1:15 Bee Tour by Farley Center Beekeeper Patrick Norby

MUSIC LINEUP
10:30- 12:30
Yid Vicious
https://yidvicious.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/372495822093289

12:30 – 2:30
Noah James Hittner
https://www.noahjameshittner.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/683979110614394

FOOD/DRINK VENDORS 
El Sabor de Puebla (food)- Reyna Gonzalez
https://www.facebook.com/…/El-Sabor-De…/100046777215513/

Madame Chu Delicacies /Josey Chu Johnson
https://www.madame-chu.com/

Farley Center/Gani Moon Farmers Jen and Chandy Karnum
https://www.facebook.com/GaniMoonFarm/

Farley Center/Sunshine Salad Farm/Farmer Katie Darnell
http://www.sunshinesaladfarm.com/

VOLUNTEER GROUP(s):
TBA

COMMUNITY GROUPS TABLING:
TBA

TAMALES! TAMALES! TAMALES!
Pre-Order tamales from El Sabor de Puebla and pick up and pay at the Farley Center Fall Festival – Sunday, Oct 6, 10:30-2:30
$22 a dozen (no mixing) for either:
Chicken with green salsa
Pork with red salsa
Jalapeño with cheese
Checks or cash only to El Sabor de Puebla.
Please e-mail order by Friday evening (Oct 3) to programs@farleycenter.org with tamales in the subject line. Thank you!

Please carpool as parking is limited.

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Farley Center Fall Festival 2023

, , , , , , , , , ,

10-1-23

Farley Center Fall Festival 2023

Come join us for the Farley Center Fall Celebration 2023- Open House and Apple Cider Day! Pick apples, wash apples, slice apples and press the apples in the 180 year old cider press! Come join us on a tour of the Natural Path Sanctuary, farm or bees. Listen to music and have a great time!

Please bring your baked apple treats (and other treats) to share with others!

Farley Center honey will be available for sale by Beekeepers Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten. Beekeepers will have information if you are interested in being a Farley Center Beekeeper!

Farley Center farmers will be selling fresh, organic vegetables at the Market Table.

Garret the Carrot will at the festival with a few children’s games/activities provided by the Verona Chamber of Commerce from 11-2.

Donations will be accepted to go toward the purchase of buying the next planting of fruit trees. All are welcome! Invite your friends on this facebook invitation and share this post!

RAIN OR SHINE!

FALL FESTIVAL TOUR SCHEDULE
11:15 Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) Tour – Farley Center Director Shedd Farley
11:15 Farm Tour with Farley Center/Jumping Spider Farm – Farmers Sam Hsieh and Katie Schofield
11:15 Bee Tour by Farley Center Beekeeper Patrick Norby
1:00 Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) Tour – Farley Center Chair/NPS Board Member Gil Halsted
1:00 Farm Tour with Farley Center Farm Manager Seth Riley
1:00 Bee Tour by Farley Center Beekeeper Patrick Norby

MUSIC LINEUP 
10:30- 12:15  Down from the Hills – http://downfromthehills.com https://www.facebook.com/events/722687282602519

12:30 – 1:45  Saideira Pagode, (pronounced “sai DAY ruh, pa GOH jee,”)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1148142479225032

1:45- 2:30  Raging Grannies of Madison – http://raginggrannies.madisonwi.us/
https://www.facebook.com/events/919946649167990


CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES WITH GARRET THE CARROT
11:00-2:00 Verona Chamber of Commerce

FOOD/DRINK VENDORS 
El Sabor de Puebla (food)- Reyna Gonzalez
https://www.facebook.com/…/El-Sabor-De…/100046777215513/

Madame Chu Delicacies /Josey Chu Johnson
https://www.madame-chu.com/

Farley Center/Gani Moon Farmers Jen and Chandy Karnum

Farley Center/Sunshine Salad Farm/ Farmer Katie Darnell
http://www.sunshinesaladfarm.com/


VOLUNTEER GROUP(s):
UW Green House Learning Community
Spartan Youth Service (SYS) Volunteers – https://jmm.madison.k12.wi.us/
UW Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) –https://www.housing.wisc.edu/undergraduate/communities/wise/

COMMUNITY GROUPS TABLING: TBA
Wisconsin Food Forests – https://www.wisconsinfoodforests.co
Urban Triage – https://urbantriage.org/
First Student
Verona Chamber of Commerce – https://www.veronawi.com/
Just Dane – https://justdane.org/
Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP) – swwap.org
Farley Center Artists – https://www.facebook.com/groups/306035369827878
Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development – https://nehemiah.org/
Sustain Dane – https://sustaindane.org/
Dane Arts – https://www.danearts.com/
Art House 360 – ARTHouse360.com
Access to Independence  – https://www.accesstoind.org/

Please carpool as parking is limited.

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Natural Path Sanctuary – A Day with the NPS Staff

, , , , , , ,

June 17, 2023

Natural Path Sanctuary – A Day with the NPS staff

Director Shedd Farley, Senior NPS Asst. Kalev Kristjuhan and NPS Asst. Dustin Duve will host the day with a tour and workshops. Light refreshments will be served.

This event will take place OUTDOORS and a good portion will take place walking in the Sanctuary. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and bring your water bottles.

This event will take place RAIN OR SHINE.

Burials happen year around in snow, rain or sun.

1:00-1:10 – Intro by Director Shedd Farley
1:10-2:00 – NPS Tour
2:00-3:00 – Shroud Board Workshop*/Mock Burial Workshop**
3:00-4:00 – Mock Burial Workshop/Shroud Board Workshop
4:00-5:00 – Meet with NPS Staff

*Shroud Board Workshop
Why are bodies called “stiffs”? I don’t know either, because they aren’t! That’s where shroud boards come in! Learn the ins and outs of the simple design, construction and use of this essential shroud burial device.

** Mock Burial Workshop

“Participants have the opportunity to learn what the green burial process entails by participating in a simulated version of it. This workshop includes Q&A with a Natural Path Sanctuary Cemetarian, pallbearing and even lowering “dead” weight into a grave.”

This event is free but please RSVP to programs@farleycenter.org

Tamales! Tamales! Tamales at Fall Festival 2022!

, , , , , , , , , ,

Oct 2, 2022

 

Tamales! Tamales! Tamales!

Must place your pre-order tamales (by the dozen) with programs@farleycenter.org by Sept 28

Pick up at the Farley Center Fall Festival – Sunday, Oct. 2, 10:30-2:30

Pre-order tamales by the dozen (deadline for orders is Sept. 28)

El Sabor de Puebla/Reyna Gonzalez will have food available for purchase at the Farley Center Fall Festival. If you would like to order tamales in advance, we can take orders for a dozen/$25 for pork, chicken or jalapeno and cheese (vegetarian). Reyna will package all of one kind in a dozen/package (no mixing per dozen). Order for the holidays – no limit on how many dozen you can order!

Place your order with programs@farleycenter.org and put “Tamales” in the subject line and we will give Reyna your order and she will bring the frozen tamales for pick up/payment at the Fall Festival. Cash or make checks out to El Sabor de Puebla.

Learn what else is happening at the Farley Center Fall Festival

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

“Too Sick Charlie” at Fall Festival 2022!

, , , , , , , , , ,

Oct 2, 2022
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Too Sick Charlie (Eric Heiligenstein, M.D.) plays the cigar box guitar, a once forgotten instrument of American blues and roots music. His music has been described as traditional Upper Midwestern cigar box guitar blues.

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Eric De Los Santos/Marimba at Fall Festival 2022

, , , , , , , , , ,

Oct 2, 2022
12:15-1:45 p.m.

Eric De Los Santos/Marimba to play at Fall Festival 2022

De Los Santos’ music has become a staple of Madison. Known to some as the “Madison Marimba Man,” he can be spotted playing spontaneously on State Street or at the Dane County Farmers’ Market. And now at Farley Center Fall Festival 2022.

Learn more at https://captimes.com/entertainment/music/q-a-whos-that-guy-playing-marimba-meet-madisons-eric-de-los-santos/article_22b7acc5-348d-5d3c-bed5-eca8c563581e.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fan4ATeAXkn0k0BtP-msbw6rOWZdhwdcQgQwloHYW1t7i-H9dskUtcbc

Learn what else is happening at the Farley Center Fall Festival

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Farley Center Fall Festival 2022

, , , , , , , , , ,

Farley Center Fall Festival 2022

Come join us for the Farley Center Fall Celebration 2022- Open House and Apple Cider Day! Pick apples, wash apples, slice apples and press the apples in the 180 year old cider press! Come join us on a tour of the Natural Path Sanctuary, farm or bees. Listen to music and have a great time!

Please bring your baked apple treats (and other treats) to share with others!

Farley Center honey will be available for sale by Beekeepers Patrick Norby and Matt Kersten. Beekeepers will have information if you are interested in being a Farley Center Beekeeper!

Farley Center farmers will be selling fresh, organic vegetables at the Market Table.

Donations will be accepted to go toward the purchase of buying the next planting of fruit trees. All are welcome!

RAIN OR SHINE!

FALL FESTIVAL TOUR SCHEDULE
11:15 Natural Path Sanctuary Tour
11:15 Farm Tour
11:15 Bee Tour with a Farley Center Beekeeper
1:00 Natural Path Sanctuary Tour
1:00 Farm Tour
1:00 Bee Tour with a Farley Center Beekeeper

MUSIC LINEUP

10:45- 12:15 Too Sick Charlie
Eric Heiligenstein, M.D.
https://toosickcharlie.com/music

12:15-1:45 Eric De Los Santos Marimba Specialist

FOOD/DRINK VENDORS

El Sabor de Puebla (food)- Reyna Gonzalez
https://www.facebook.com/people/El-Sabor-De-Puebla/100046777215513/

Madame Chu Delicacies (drinks and sauces) -Josey Chu Johnson
https://www.madame-chu.com/

Please carpool as parking is limited.

For more information, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org or call the office at 608-845-8724.

Farley Center Food Forest Tour

, , , , , , ,

With Farley Center Farmer Ian Aley

Come visit the food forests at the Farley Center with Farmer Ian Aley! This tour is in conjunction with the North American Agroforest Conference which is taking place June 28-July 2.

The food forest includes newly planted areas through the Wisconsin Food Forests initiative as well as more mature areas featuring a range of planting styles: guilds and contours and a mix of plants from the well known: apples, pears, and grapes, to the lesser known: paw paw, cornelian cherry, honeyberry, quince, serviceberry, currants, and many more under and overstory plants.

The Farley Center is a certified organic farm where many growers rent land and share common resources like tractors, irrigation lines, and coolers.