Carrot Fest - Harvest Time Fun Day

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NEW DATE: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Like carrots? Don’t miss this event.

Behold the carrot! That sweet, crunchy, colourful vegetable that is part of a healthy diet from soups and salads to stews; and even makes it way into tasty desserts.

Everdale, a community minded farm on the outskirts of Hillsburgh, celebrates our admission free Carrot Fest every year with food, harvest time activities and entertainment for all ages.

Enjoy:

Farm Cooked Everdale Food: Vegan chili, hamburgers, ice cream, hot chocolate, coffee/tea/cider, carrot slaw.

U-pick carrots. Go for a wagon ride in the fields and pick your own carrots.
Kid friendly activities including face painting and crafts.
Tours of the farm including farm animal visits and farming workshops.

Special Tours of Home Alive! – the straw bale home – on its 10th Anniversary

Learn the benefits to buying fresh, organically grown produce with a Harvest Share membership.

This homegrown festival draws over 1000 people. It’s a big friendly place for people of all ages to explore, but please leave your pets at home for this day. Thank you.

This year’s event is sponsored with the generous support of Bernardin and The Big Carrot.

This year we are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Home Alive! with special tours.T Home Alive! – the straw bale home that thinks, drinks and breathes. This is a rare opportunity to see this functioning home first hand.

Harvest Homes founder, Ben Polley, designed and oversaw construction of this home to demonstrate how to intelligently address today’s housing and ecological challenges in northern climates.

Home Alive! was first built in a Guelph warehouse in 2003 with enthusiastic energy by dozens of volunteers. The completed house was then moved and reassembled as a Feature Model Home at the 2003 National Home Show in Toronto. It was then brought to Everdale to rest in its current home.

Date/Time: Sunday, September 28th 12 pm to 4 pm
Admission: FREE!

Location: Everdale, 5812 6th Line, Hillsburgh.

For more information, or to find out how you can be involved, visit www.everdale.org, call 519-855-4859 x102 or contact jen.thurston@everdale.org