Greetings Local Food enthusiasts, Spend a lovely weekend this Saturday and Sunday touring farms, meeting the people that grow your food and learning about where your food comes from.
Take a hayride at the A.J. Teeter Farm, pick some apples and take home some mouthwatering apple cider doughnuts and fresh pressed cider from Littletree Orchards, and taste raw cow's milk cheese at Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese. Visit all 12 participating farms, or peruse just your favorite one- no matter how you choose to spend your time during the Farm Trail weekend you're guaranteed to have lots of fun! Farm Trail Brochures with maps and "I love Local Farms" admission buttons can be purchased for $2 at the Ithaca Farmers Market and GreenStar Cooperative Market, or at any of the participating farms. See below for more info, or go to http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/tompkins/localfood/farmtrail.htm Happy farm trailing! Liz Farm Trail Open House Weekend, August 16-17, 2008 ITHACA- The second annual Farm Trail Open House has expanded to become a two-day event, to be held on Saturday, August 16th and Sunday, August 17th. Visitors can tour different farms from 12noon-5pm each day, and will meet a wide variety of local agricultural producers. Farm products will be available for sale at many of the participating farms. Saturday’s tour will include five farms on the Eastern shore of Cayuga Lake, including: Dilmun Hill, a student-run organic vegetable farm; Cornell Orchards in Lansing, which uses a variety of research and teaching methods to grow a wide selection of fruits sustainably; Finger Lakes Dexter Creamery, where heirloom Dexter cows produce the milk used to make Kefir cheese; Thomson Farm, a vegetable farm that functions primarily as a Community Supported Agriculture share provider; and One of a Kind Apple Orchards, which offers over 450 varieties of modern and antique apples. On Sunday, the tour will introduce visitors to six farms on the West side of Cayuga Lake. These include: Motherplants, a “living roof” plant nursery; BWW & Remembrance Farm, a land partnership between a pasture- raised goat farm and an organic vegetable farm; Silver Queen Farm, which specializes in U-Pick fruit and vegetables; Fingerlakes Farmstead Cheese, a specialized cheese producer that uses only raw cow’s milk from the family owned dairy next door; Laughing Goat Fiber, an alpaca farm specializing in home-grown exotic fibers as well as original home-made fiber goods; and A.J Teeter Farm, the oldest continually operating family farm in the town of Ithaca, which raises hay and beef cattle. Admission to participating farms is by wearing an “I Love Local Farms” button, available for $2/person or $5/carload (4 people) available at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market, GreenStar Cooperative Market, and the Tompkins County Cooperative Extension until August 16th and at the farms on the days of the tour. Buttons can be used for all the farms on both days. The event is coordinated by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County in cooperation with the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitor's Bureau, the Ithaca Farmers' Market, and area farmers. Funding is provided in part by the NYS Dept. of Agriculture & Markets, and the Tompkins County Tourism Program. --- Elizabeth Viviana Karabinakis Community Food Educator Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (607) 272-2292 _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
