We would like to invite you to join us for part or all of the day on the farm. Bring your grandparents, your children or your grandchildren, neighbors and friends. There is no fee to attend and no parking fee. Just good fellowship and a chance to spend time in the country on a working farm. We do ask that you bring your own beverage if you're coming to stay for a time. And dress appropriately for the weather!

We have lots of colorful lambs bouncing around the fields. There may be some newly hatched chicks following their moms around. We have a miniature donkey and an Icelandic mare and her companion horse for the children to pet.

This is LAVENDER DAY and the greenhouse is full of lavender that is growing lush and green now that spring has finally arrived in Michigan. So measure out your garden space and decide how many plants you can fit in the garden. If time permits, I will take people out into the lavender garden to point out the plant varieties and talk about growing & harvesting lavender for a variety of end uses.

Our farm store will be open and you can find unique Mother's Day gifts, including our very popular Lavender Soap. Also, we have unqiue handpainted stoneware pottery featuring themes from our own farm!

A continued focus this season is Locally Grown foods. Come and meet some Midland county farmers who grow pork, beef, chicken and eggs. Find out who you can purchase safe, humanely farmed locally grown meat products from. Our farmers will be taking orders and also offering frozen farm raised beef and pork and hopefully eggs. We hope to have a grill going so you can sample, taste-test our farm raised meat products.

We will be taking orders for Fall Lamb, pasture raised. There is a limited amount available. Lamb is $300 for whole; $150 for 1/2.
It's Spring on the Farm!
Please join us on
Saturday May 8th, 2010
10a.m.-5p.m.
for our
Annual Spring
Open Farm Day
NO PETS PLEASE... because we have our own dogs here, we
request that you do not bring your own dogs to the farm this day. Thank you!
If you have questions, please email or phone 989/832-4908.
Our address is:
3826 N. Eastman Rd.
Midland, MI 48642 for those who want to mapquest directions.
See you on May 8th!
New this year:
Debra Groat makes absolutely stunning and very unique jewelry out of heirloom seeds! She will be set up with her jewelry for sale and she will be teaching children how to make their own seed bracelet (cost $3 each child). You can see her amazing work at: Saverine Creek Heirlooms.
Returning:
Grace Cummings, Tri-City MBS Chapter Leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation will be here with educational materials to inform visitors of the valuable work done by the WAPF.
For those unfamiliar with the WAPF, Grace provides the following summary.
The Weston A. Price Foundation:
* Is a reliable source of accurate nutrition information.
* Provides a strong voice against processed and imitation foods.
* Receives no funding from any government agency, nor from the meat and dairy industries.
* Campaigns for a return to healthy traditional fats.
* Warns consumers about the dangers of modern soy foods.
* Promotes access to unprocessed whole milk products from pasture-fed animals through "A Campaign for Real Milk."
* Keeps members informed through Wise Traditions, a lively and informative quarterly journal.
* Helps consumers find healthy, farm-fresh foods through a system of local chapters.
I am very excited to announce that Chris Petty will be joining us to share her vast knowledge of medieval fiber arts! Chris Petty is an experienced spinner, weaver and dyer. She is also a Viking era re-enactor and graduate student who works primarily with medieval textile tools. She has been working with the warp-weighted loom specifically for more than ten years. A popular speaker, she has given demonstrations of cloth creation for a wide audience, including the International Taos Wool Festival, and the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, Michigan, as well as in Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. This fall she will be traveling to England to begin a three year course of study to get a PhD in medieval textiles.