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Farley Center Walking Club Nature Walk

community, Culture, environmental, friendship, fun, health, woods

6/9/23

Come along for a stroll on the beautiful wooded walking trails located at The Farley Center!

Please check the weather to dress accordingly and bring water as needed. Closed-toe shoes are suggested as we will be walking along dirt trails.
We will walk for approximately an hour, but if others feel up to it, we can extend our walk as necessary.

We will meet about 10 minutes before our walk at the picnic tables located near the BOWA (Bur Oak Welcoming Area) located to the right of the driveway as you pull in.
Please note, this is not a formal tour, but a casual walk throughout The Farley Center grounds.

Looking forward to seeing everyone out there!

Hosted by: Katrina Krueger, Linda & Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability and Farley Center Walking Club

Farley Walking Club First Walk of the Season!

community, Culture, environmental, friendship, fun, health, woods

5/26/23

Come along for a stroll on the beautiful wooded walking trails located at The Farley Center!

Looking forward to seeing everyone out there!

Hosted by: Katrina Krueger, Linda & Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability and Farley Center Walking Club

Earth Connections: Land Art Exhibition

art, celebration, community, Culture, environmental, friendship, fun

Earth Connections Artist Reception and DABL Art Market
Sept. 9, 10am-5pm

EARTH CONNECTIONS Land Art Exhibition

Come take a walk-about and see what is created August 15 – October 31, 2023. We will have maps available for self guided tours. Visit the Farley Center anytime from sun-up to sun-down and take a walk through the woods. We will have a community tour on Sept. 9, starting at 1pm where many of the artists will be present to talk about their work.

DABL ART MARKET

New this year, Farley Center will host Dane Arts Buy Local Art Market on Sept. 9. A variety of artists (including 9 of our Earth Connection artists) will set up booths to display and sell their art. It will be a fun arts festival including music and food! Bring the whole family to for this outdoor celebration. (Artists will be able to accept cash or check) Learn more about DABL and the Pop-Up Market

This is the sixth year that area artists will create installations in the woods of the Natural Path Sanctuary on the Farley Center land. These artists are rising to the challenge of using only materials that can safely decompose back into the land.

Land art, also known as Earth art, and environmental art is created by artists who use the materials of the Earth including for instance, the soil, rocks, branches, trees, vegetation, water and other natural, non-toxic materials.

The Farley Center supports these types of installations on our land to highlight the beauty, value and necessity to think about how we view and use the land. Our artists help raise the discussion of what is toxic and what do we mean by the word “decompose.” What has to change in the way we work in order to sustain the Earth and all of us that live on it in healthy ways

Earth Connections 2023 Land Artists:

Justin Bitner
David Carlson
Mona Cassis*
Gene Delcourt*
Betsy Delzer*
Char De Vos
Kate Heiber-Cobb
Steve Heuer*
Amelia Higgins (Youth Participant)
Chris Hindle
Ruthanna Hutton-Okpalaeke
Angela Johnson
Ellen Khalifa
Katrina Krueger
Efrat Livny*
Erin McWalter*
Billy Morgan
Karen Reppen*
Cynthia Reynolds
Bobbette Rose*
Phil Saunders
Sue Schuetz
Barry Sherbeck*
John Steines
Cooper Talbot
Kelsey Voy
Urban Indigenous Art & Sciences Youth Group

*These artists will also be selling their art through DABL Art Market on Sept. 9

The Farley Center would like to thank all the artists who are participating this year. A special thank you to Bobbette Rose who is the Farley Center Art Coordinator and has helped organize land art exhibits/projects for the Farley Center.

For a look at past land art exhibits (2013-2021): http://farleycenter.org/land-art-installations/

For questions, please contact programs@farleycenter.org

Farley Center Volunteer Work Day in the Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS)

community, environmental, friendship, fun, gardening, volunteer, woods

6-15-23

Please join Director Shedd Farley and other volunteers for a day of outdoor work in the Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) from 9:30-11:30. Please meet in front of the red packing shed at 9:25.

Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.

Farley Center Supervisors:
Director Shedd Farley

Volunteer Group Leader: TBA

If you have any questions, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

Farley Center Volunteer Day

community, environmental, friendship, fun, gardening, volunteer, woods

6-16-23

Please join Farley Center Board Member Jeanne Meier and Natural Path Sanctuary Asst. Dustin Duve and other volunteers for a day working outside around the Center. Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) is the lead volunteer organization for the day.
There will be a variety of outdoor tasks so dress for the weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.

Meet at the Center at 8:55 a.m. at the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA) near the red packing shed.

Farley Center Supervisors:
Farley Center Board Member Jeanne Meier
Natural Path Sanctuary Asst. Dustin Duve

TDS Volunteer Group Leader:
Barry Tebon/Telephone and Data Systems (TDS)

If you have any questions, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

Farley Center Volunteer Day in the Food Forest!

community, environmental, friendship, fun, gardening, volunteer, woods

5-9-23

Please join us as we work on the Farley Center Food Forest with Wisconsin Food Forests Volunteers. Outdoor work includes planting, weeding and mulching. Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.

Please meet in front of the red packing shed at 4:55.

Back up rain date: May 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Kalev Kristjuhan – Senior Natural Path Sanctuary Asst.

WISCONSIN FOOD FORESTS: Emily Steinwehe

Farley Center Food Forest Tour with Kalev Kristjuhan

celebration, community, Festival, folk music, Food, food forest, friendship, fun, music

8-26-23

Come tour the food forest at the Farley Center with Kalev Kristjuhan following the Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble Concert (5:00-7:00 p.m./$15). There is no cost for the tour.
The food forest includes newly planted areas through the Wisconsin Food Forests initiative (https://www.wisconsinfoodforests.com/) 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/SWWAP Summer Concert – Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble Concert

celebration, community, Festival, folk music, friendship, fun, music

8/26/23

Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble Concert
https://yidvicious.com/

Hosted by the Farley Center and the Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives

Cost: $15 PAY AT THE DOOR
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!
All proceeds will go to the musicians

Come join us for a concert with “Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble” at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ). Please bring your own chairs and blankets. There will be one of our farmers selling fresh, organic vegetables and Farley Center honey will be available (cash or check only).

FOOD: Perez Produce will be selling tamales ($2.50 each) and cold drinks (cash only). They will also offer tamales by the dozen if you want to pre-order those and they will be ready for pick up from the concert – pre-order at programs@farleycenter.org)

We are offering an informational tour with Farley Center Board Member Jeanne Meier at 4:00- one hour before the concert. No charge for the tour.

We are also offering a Farley Center Food Forest Tour with Kalev Kristjuhan/Wisc. Food Forests following the concert from 7:00-8:00. No charge for the tour.

Yid Vicious has been engaging and delighting audiences throughout the Midwest since 1995. The group has released four CDs and has received numerous Madison Area Music Awards for its unique blend of traditional and contemporary klezmer. In 2009, Yid Vicious became the first performing arts ensemble in Wisconsin to receive a USArtists International grant, to perform at Argentina’s KlezFiesta, an international klezmer festival spanning three cities and including bands from ten countries.

In 2006, Yid Vicious toured Chiba Prefecture, Japan as part of the Wisconsin-Chiba Sister State Goodwill Delegation. Yid Vicious is committed to keeping traditional klezmer music and dance alive, and collaborates frequently with internationally renowned klezmer dance instructor Steve Weintraub. The group has participated in the New York-based “KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program”, and was a featured performer at the “KlezKamp Roadshow” directed by Yiddish scholar Henry Sapoznik at the University of Wisconsin in April 2009.

Yid Vicious has presented concerts, workshops, and clinics at performing arts centers, cultural festivals, universities, and K-12 schools in Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan, and has performed to statewide audiences on Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television.

Poster of the Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble Concert
Poster of the full Summer Concert Series

HOSTED BY:

Farley Center
www.farleycenter.org

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
https://www.facebook.com/MtHorebProgressives

Natural Path Sanctuary
naturalpathsanctuary.org

Farley Center/SWWAP/PFLAG of Mt. Horeb Summer Concert – John Duggleby

celebration, community, Festival, folk music, friendship, fun, music

7/8/23

John Duggleby

Hosted by the Farley Center and the Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP), PFLAG of Mount Horeb

Cost: $10 Suggested Donation
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSICIANS!
All proceeds will go to the musicians

Come join us for a concert with “John Duggleby” at the Farley Center under the Bur Oak Welcoming Area (BOWA ). Weather permitting, a campfire open mic will follow the concert.

Please bring your own chairs and blankets. There will be one of our farmers selling fresh, organic vegetables and Farley Center honey will be available (cash or check only).

John Duggleby: Weaned an Iowa “river rat”, aged for 12 years in Chicagoland, and still maturing after three decades in the Madison area. An award-winning writer who’s chased music as a side hustle ever since—at age five– warbling “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” in a supper club for a nickel. John was named 2020 and 2021 Madison Area Music Association’s Children’s Performer of the Year, and has received 2 nd place for Singer/Songwriters in the Isthmus “Madison’s Favorites” reader’s poll. His 2014 album Better Late Than Never and 2019 double album Castaway can be heard at https://soundcloud.com/duggleby.

Poster of John Duggleby Concert
Poster of the full Summer Concert Series

HOSTED BY:

Farley Center
www.farleycenter.org

Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP)
https://www.facebook.com/MtHorebProgressives

Natural Path Sanctuary
naturalpathsanctuary.org

Farley Center Farmers
https://www.facebook.com/farleyfarmers

Cocktail Hour with Farley Center

bees, celebration, community, Culture, environmental, farm, Food, friendship, fun, honey, sustainable farming

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/