Garden Fest 2019 and Roots to River Farm Market – Sharing photos from Mother’s Day weekend events at the 2019 Garden Fest hosted by The Farm Cooking School and Roots to River Farm and the Farm Market, held on Mother’s Day.
Garden Fest 2019 and Roots to River Farm Market
Garden Fest 2019 and Roots to River Farm Market
Hi Everyone, How was your Mother’s Day weekend, last weekend? We had a pretty full day each day of the weekend. I am sharing a few photos (mostly from my Instagram Stories) from Garden Fest 2019 (Saturday) and Roots to River Farm Market (Sunday). I figure it’s time to do a little update since I haven’t shared about it in a bit and give a little preview before the Summer CSA starts.
I missed my mom on Mother’s Day weekend but we were able to catch up over the phone after and I sent her a card. We did spend Mother’s day with my Mother in Law, Linda, for a brunch at her house and that was really nice.
The pictures in this post are all from my Intagram stories, I wish I took more photos! I was focused on watching my kids who were running around having fun. My husband Eric, took some nice ones of my daughter and the bubbles on Saturday and I am thinking of sharing those in another post.
unroasted coffee beans from Folk City Roasters at Garden Fest 2019
On Saturday, Eric, the kids, myself and some of our friends went to the Garden Fest that The Farm Cooking School and Roots to River Farm annually holds. There were vendors including our friends, at Vituperio Artisan Bread Bakery and Folk City Roasters Coffee.
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At the Garden Fest – The Vituperio Artisan Bread & Studio booth
I love introducing friends to everything connected to the farm, there’s so much good food to be had and good people to meet 🙂 We told our friends about the event, Eric went on a bike ride in the morning with his crew and they came to the fest (in their bike spandex, pictured above ;))
A class with Chef Shelley Wiseman at the Farm Cooking School on Mother’s Day
The weather was amazing on Saturday, sunny, dry and not hot at all. Sunday was rainy but that’s to be expected this time of year.
The bounty of Spring produce at the Roots to River Farm Market at Gravity Hill Farm
Every time I go to the farm market, I’ve been picking up plants for our garden. This past weekend, I picked up a lemon verbena plant. It smells so good. I love making tea from the leaves. One of my favorite “chill out” teas. I have a few drink recipes involving Lemon Verbena coming up for the blog, so keep and eye out for those. You can subscribe to my weekly or bi-weekly e-mail list or opt-in for the one-signal RSS feed when a new post is posted you will get it.
With friends at the Garden Fest at Roots to River Farm; in the back the Folk City Roasters booth
My daughter enjoyed the large bubbles in the field at the farm, she was running around and it got her nicely tired out, every parents dream 🙂
My daughter chasing giant bubbles at the Garden Fest – the weather was sunny, dry and beautiful!
CSA Share at Roots to River Farm
As I’ve mentioned before on the blog, I purchased a CSA share from Roots to River farm and I hope to share about the experience and produce here on the blog since it’s specifically for recipes for the blog. The season will last 22 weeks, starting the first or second week of June and I will pick up every other week as per the type of share that I purchased.
I can’t wait to try new-to-me vegetables. I want to be challenged and have something new and interesting to try – not to mention have healthy ingredients to work with and feed to my family.
I hope that it encourages people to look at CSA shares in their areas and support their local farmers too!
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The counter at the Roots to River Farm Market where food made by The Farm Cooking School is available to buy.
Farm Market Weekends
We have a nice routine of going to the Farm Market on the weekends with the kids. I want to teach them about the relationship between food and the farm and help them (and myself!) connect to nature.
They are now open 2 days on the weekends 10 am – 3 pm. They have other vendors at the farm market as well that sell local cheese, meat, honey, soap and other items/food.
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Me picking up some Mother’s Day treats at the Sunday farm market – it was a pretty rainy after that beautiful weather we had Saturday for the Garden fest.
Did you attend the Garden Fest this year or the farm market? Let me know in the comments below! Thank you for reading and following along!
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