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Bike the Barns 2023

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9/17/23

Join us for FairShare CSA Coalition’s 15th annual Bike the Barns!

Bike the Barns is FairShare’s largest fundraiser. Proceeds from the ride benefit our organization and the Partner Shares Program, which help low-income families access farm-fresh veggies from a CSA farmer near them.

The event features farm tours, gourmet local food, craft libations, on-farm activities and live music. Join us as we bike to ensure food for every family!

Riders can expect gorgeous country roads, picturesque barns, natural areas, and scenic vistas around Dane County. The ride will start and stop at Badger Prairie County Park in Verona, Wisconsin. The short route will be ~35 miles with two farm stops. The long route covers ~55 miles with four farm stops.

This year’s farms are:
1) Crossroads Community Farm
2) Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability
3) Prairie Bluff Farm (long route only)
4) Snug Haven Farm (long route only)

Visit csacoalition.org/bike-the-barns for more details and to register on June 1st!

Cocktail Hour with Farley Center

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3/23/23

Farley Center has partnered with Palette Bar and Grill on a new cocktail using  sustainably farmed honey from the Farley Center in 2022. Their Spring menu will once again feature the Farley Fly-By cocktail!

Join us on March 23rd for a cocktail hour from 4-6pm and try the Farley Fly-By (you can also order without alcohol) and learn about the Farley Center, our beekeeping program, and sustainable practices.

See Event Flyer

Learn more about the Farley Center  beekeepers at
http://farleycenter.org/programsevents/beekeepers/

Annual Urban Harvest Fest

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9/17/22

The Annual Urban Harvest Festival is Urban Triage’s first festival celebrating all we’ve sowed over the summer and since the beginning of Urban Triage. Our Harvest celebration is grounded in sustainability, growth, and community.

What we do and who we are would not be–and is not possible without the support and commitment of our funders, volunteers, co-conspirators, community members, and staff. Together we’ve planted, sowed, and reaped tremendous growth and have impacted thousands of vulnerable community members in the Greater Dane County Area.

We’re on a mission to empower and inspire transformation and breakthroughs in our community through collaboration and cooperation. And we’ve done just that, and we’re just getting started.

Please celebrate with us all that we’ve accomplished together at our Farm–which has offered healing and sustainability for families in the Dane County Area. The work we do matters. And the families we serve and inspire are living proof.

Join us at The Farley Center on Saturday, September 17, 2022. It’s a fun-filled day of live music, acrobatics, a DJ, a majorette performance, food, spoken word, wine, and beer.

“I came to learn about food sustainability for myself and for my family. I enrolled in the program to learn healthier habits and to learn how to make money. I’ve gotten so much more from the program. Community. Healing. And bonding with the people that matter the most–my children.” – SHBA Cohort 1″

Interested in being an Event Sponsor? Review our Event Sponsorship packet for a full list of our event sponsorship opportunities HERE! We offer plenty of opportunities for all companies and organizations, large and small. You are sure to find something that best fits your organizations marketing needs!

To become an event sponsor, please fill out the following sponsor form HERE. Someone from our team will contact you to confirm your sponsorship contribution.

Contact: info@urbantriage.org for free shuttle service to event.

For questions, please contact Lorissa Bañuelos at lbanuelos@urbantriage.org.

Cocktail Hour with Farley Center

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Farley Center has partnered with Palette Bar and Grill on a new cocktail using our own Farley Center honey. They will debut and start selling the new cocktail “Farley Fly-By” on their menu for the Spring.

On February 26th, Palette is hosting a special night for Farley Center supporters. Join us for the cocktail hour (you can also order it without alcohol)! We will be in the bar area from 4:30-8:00pm with some brochures and a friendly smile.

If you want to make reservations for the dining room, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org and let us know the time/number of people and we will send them over to Palette’s Bar and Grill.

Farley Center Book Discussion: “The Land Remembers” by Ben Logan

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Farley Center Book Discussion on The Land Remembers by Ben Logan
11:00-12:30

This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin’s driftless region in the 1920s and ’30s. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle—”the fifth Logan boy.” The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, tested each other and themselves, and grew up learning timeless lessons.

Author, Ben Logan (1920–2014) grew up in southwestern Wisconsin, traveled as a merchant seaman, and worked many years in New York as a novelist, lecturer, and writer/producer of films and television. He returned in the 1980s to Seldom Seen Farm. The farm is now privately owned but has been preserved as a farm forever through a land trust with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy.

Please feel free to bring snacks to share. We plan on having the discussion outside if weather permits If not, then we will hold the discussion in the Center on the lower level conference room. Attendees will be required to wear masks inside.

Facilitator: Catherine Young
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/

Come join Catherine Young for a discussion of Ben Logan’s The Land Remembers outdoors at the Farley Center in Verona, Wisconsin
Saturday, November 13th 11AM-12:30PM

We’ll explore why his writing is so powerful and how art can help us cherish land.

If you do not know The Land Remembers come out of love for land and out of curiosity for this fine Wisconsin writer’s work.

Catherine Young is a performing artist and writer whose life is devoted to protecting water. Trained in fluvial geomorphology, Catherine worked as a national park ranger, naturalist, educator, farmer, and mother before completing her MFA in creative writing in British Columbia. Her prose and poetry is published internationally and nationally, including in The Driftless Reader.

Rooted in farm life, Catherine lives with her family in Wisconsin’s Driftless bioregion. Her podcasts and writings can be found at:
http://www.catherineyoungwriter.com/

Questions? Please contact programs@farleycenter.org

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5547.htm

Farley Center Book Discussion: “40 days with Jerry Apps by Jeff Wild”

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Farley Center Book Discussion on 40 Days with Jerry Apps by Jeff Wild
11:00-12:30

Forty Days with Jerry Apps by Jeff Wild. The author is a retired Lutheran pastor who has read and long admired the books by Jerry Apps for the engaging stories they tell and the insights they provide about rural life in Wisconsin.

Jeff Wild has read Jerry’s books more than once and recognizes something in them which lend themselves to reflection and meditation. With Jerry’s permission, Wild has taken excerpts from the books and uses them to explore in 40 short chapters the meanings, both overt and hidden, that are contained within each excerpt. From gardening to being good stewards of the planet, the themes of Jerry’s books ring true in Wild’s meditations.

This is a book you will turn to again and again.

http://littlecreekpress.com/book…/40-days-with-jerry-apps/

All proceeds from book sales are designated to two nonprofits: Harvest of Hope and the Food, Faith and Farming Network to support rural communities and farmers around the state.

Please feel free to bring snacks to share.

If you would like to facilitate the book discussion, please contact programs@farleycenter.org

Farley Center Food Forest Tour

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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.

Farley Center Volunteer Day on the Farm

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7/5/2021

Please join the Farley Center Farm Manager Seth Riley and other Farley Center volunteers for a day working on the farm.

Meet at the Center at 10:20 at the Bur Oak Welcoming Area near the red packing shed.

There will be a variety of outdoor tasks so dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles. If you have any questions, please e-mail  programs@farleycenter.org.