Illinois Valley Farm and Garden Festival

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Illinois Valley Farm and Garden Festival

Saturday, September 10th, 2011 at Jubilee
Park in Cave Junction, 10AM-4PM

A free festival celebrating local farmers and promoting farming and gardening skills with Food, Farm & Fiber Arts Booths, Live Music, Farm Demos,  Kid’s Activities, and a Farmers’ Market

 

Workshops and Demos include:

BEGINNING BEE KEEPING, START A VEGETABLE GARDEN, BUILD A SOLAR OVEN, LOCAL WILD EDIBLES, RAISING LIVESTOCK, FOOD PRESERVATION, FIBER ANIMALS & ARTS, SOLAR POPCORN, BUILD A TIN CAN BIOCHAR STOVE ***, APPLE CIDER PRESSING, AND MUCH MORE…

*** MATERIALS NEEDED (SEE BELOW)

 

Music by Scott and Coreen Hampson, String Bean Band, East Fork, and Altered States


PLEASE
GIVE A BIG THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:

GOLD

OSU Extension Service Small Farms Program,  Good Earth Organics,  Oregon Builder’s Guild/Good Neighbors Fence Co. 592-6014,  Dillon’s Nursery and Garden Center,  Rhonda Gheen,  The Norton Family,  Autonomy Cascadia,  My Place Cafe,  Illinois Valley News,  Southern Oregon Beekeepers Association. 

 

SILVER

Keeeth & Nellie, Across The Bridge Delivery, Eisner Family, Illinois Valley Garden Club, Cathy J.Krull, Climate City Ins.- Allstate, Chinook Bar Ranch, Dr. Margaret Philhower, ND, Forest Edge Farm, Rachel Goodman Massage Therapy, Suri Futures Alpaca Farm, Dave Maize Acoustic Guitars, Taylor’s Country Store, ivdailyview.com, Waggle Dance Farm, Old #7 Oregon Electric, Subway, Dave’s Outdoor Power Equipment, Jeanette Phillips. 

                                   

BRONZE

Oregon Caves Chevron, Chris Jolley Counseling, Luna Crow, The Dome School, Polly Orr, Caryl’s Clinic, Siskiyou Mountain Herbs, IV Soil & Water Conservation District, Illinois Valley Business Entrepreneurial Center, Chernay Gardens, Frank & Judy Cordeiro, The Fabulous Faucet Fanatic.

 

Materials list for the Tin Can Biochar Stove

We will have some cans, but to make sure that you will be able to make your biochar stove, please bring the following:

  • two 15-oz cans (most common, easiest to find)- opened, emptied and cleaned. These two cans will stack to make a chimney, so try to find two of the same kind that nest together for easy stacking. Try to find unlined cans, otherwise the plastic  lining will burn off and make toxic smoke.
  • one 28-oz can (very common - tomato sauce, pumpkin, many other veggies come in this size)- opened, emptied and cleaned.

We will also have some tools to share, but it will go faster if people can bring their own tools from home. Here is what you will need:

  • a hammer
  • a phillips head screwdriver
  • a “church key” can punch
  • a can opener

 

Date: 
Saturday, September 10, 2011 (All day)