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Farley Center Volunteer Day!

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

9/9/2021

Please join the Spartan Youth Service (SYS) Volunteers at the Farley Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Please meet in front of the red packing shed.

We will be doing outdoor clean up work Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.

Please social distance and wear masks if you feel more comfortable. We do require that all volunteers be vaccinated for the safety of all our volunteers and staff.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

Spartan Youth Service (SYS) is James Madison Memorial High School’s largest volunteering club. There are over 200 dedicated students in SYS and the club mission is to do service work around our community.

https://jmm.madison.k12.wi.us/

SPARTAN YOUTH SERVICE CONTACT
Hyein and Amy- SYS CoChair

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Jeanne Meier – Farley Center Board Vice Chair

Farley Center Volunteer Day!

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

9/7/2021

Please join the Spartan Youth Service (SYS) Volunteers at the Farley Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Please meet in front of the red packing shed.

We will be doing outdoor clean up work Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.

Please social distance and wear masks if you feel more comfortable. We do require that all volunteers be vaccinated for the safety of all our volunteers and staff.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

https://jmm.madison.k12.wi.us/

SPARTAN YOUTH SERVICE CONTACT
Hyein and Amy- SYS CoChair

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Jeanne Meier – Farley Center Board Vice Chair

Farley Center Volunteer Day!

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

9/6/2021

Please join the Spartan Youth Service (SYS) Volunteers at the Farley Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Please meet in front of the red packing shed.

We will be doing outdoor clean up work Please dress for outdoor weather and bring work gloves and water bottles.

Please social distance and wear masks if you feel more comfortable. We do require that all volunteers be vaccinated for the safety of all our volunteers and staff.

If you have any questions or want to sign up, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

https://jmm.madison.k12.wi.us/

SPARTAN YOUTH SERVICE CONTACT
Hyein and Amy- SYS CoChair

FARLEY CENTER ON SITE SUPERVISOR
Jeanne Meier – Farley Center Board Vice Chair

Farley Center Volunteer Day in the Sculpture Garden

community, environmental, friendship, fun, volunteer, woods

8/3/2021

Please join Farley Center Board Member Jeanne Meier, the Spartan Youth Service (SYS) Volunteers and other Farley Center volunteers for a day working in the Sculpture Garden!

Chance to Showcase Farley Sculptures!

In addition to being a physician and community activist, Gene Farley enjoyed making sculptures, mostly in metal or wood. Many of his metal sculptures are permanently installed on the grounds of the Farley Center. We need to do some tender loving trimming so they don’t get lost in the plants which surround them.

If you would like to help with this project, grab your garden shears or clippers and come on out.

Meet at the Center at 8:20 at the Bur Oak Welcoming Area near the red packing shed.

This work is all outdoors so dress for the weather and bring work gloves and water bottles. If you have any questions, please e-mail programs@farleycenter.org.

Farley Center Food Forest Tour with Farmer Ian Aley

community, environmental, food forest, gardening

Come visit the food forests at the Farley Center with Farmer Ian Aley!

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 Book Discussion: “The Land Remembers” by Ben Logan

book, community, Culture, driftless region, environmental, farm, friendship, Wisconsin

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”

book, community, Culture, environmental, farm, friendship, gardening, meditational, Wisconsin

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

Lanterns for Peace 2021

celebration, community, Culture, Death, Grief, Hiroshima, Lanterns of Peace

Event hosted by Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin

Join us for this family friendly event to commemorate the lives lost in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings 76 years ago and make sure that such nuclear attacks never again take place. We remember the past, so that we can envision and work for a peaceful, just and nuclear-free future.

The event will be open to the public to attend at Tenney Park outside of the John Wall Family Pavilion and the entire event will be held outdoors. You are welcome to mail in your lantern if you cannot be in attendance.

Open to public at 6:30pm for people to create lanterns
Program starts at 7:30pm
Lanterns start going out at dusk approximately 7:45-8:00pm
More information >> https://psr-wisconsin.org/lanterns-for-peace

2021 Event Sponsors

– Linda & Gene Farley Center for Peace, Justice and Sustainability
– First Unitarian Society Justice Ministry
– Interfaith Peace Working Group
– Nukewatch
– Outrider Foundation
– Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin
– Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Farley Center Food Forest Tour

community, Culture, environmental, farm, Farm Tour, Food, food forest, health

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

FULL – Natural Path Sanctuary Walking Tour

community, Culture, Death, Dying, end-of-life, environmental, Green Cemetaries, Grief

This Tour is now FULL.

Walking Tours are LIMITED to SIX PEOPLE ONLY.

8/12/21

Walking Tour with Director Shedd Farley

You MUST reserve a spot by e-mailing programs@farleycenter.org or calling the Farley Center at 608-845-8724. Masks are required. Tours fill up fast so if you sign up and need to cancel, please let us know so we can add another from our waitlist.

Come take a walk through the Natural Path Sanctuary and learn about green burial.

Farley Center Director and Natural Path Sanctuary (NPS) Coordinator Shedd Farley will give a walking tour presentation of the Natural Path Sanctuary. Meet at the bur oak tree near the red packing shed at the Farley Center at 9:20 p.m.. Please wear good walking shoes and dress appropriately for the weather. Please check back on the facebook page for any changes due to the weather.

THIS IS AN OUTDOOR PRESENTATION – THERE WILL NOT BE A PRESENTATION IN THE CENTER. THE FARLEY CENTER BUILDING IS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC BUT THERE ARE PORTABLE TOILETS FOR USE.

If you would like to set up a Natural Path Sanctuary walking tour for a max. of 6 on a different day, please contact programs@farleycenter.org to arrange.