UPCOMING EVENTS 2010
July
SUMMER FARM FUN CAMP: Grades 1 - 6
June 28 - August 13
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:00pm
$230.00 per week
We still have space for more campers each week -- call and register today!
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SUMMER FARM FUN CAMP: Preschool & K
June 28 - August 13
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 12:00pm
$145.00 per week
(Stream Splash and Nature Explorer weeks - SOLD OUT)
August
FARM POTLUCK SOCIAL
&
FILM FESTIVAL
Thursdays, August 5 - September 2
7:00pm dinner
8:00pm film
Join Holcomb Farm staff for a great evening of food, fun and film. Bring a dish to share, enjoy fresh produce from the CSA and stay for a film about sustainable living, food and agriculture.
Films:
August 5 - Dirt!
August 19 - What's On Your Plate?
September 2 - Ingredients
click on movie title for more information about the featured film
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HOLCOMB FARM BENEFIT 10K RACE
Saturday, August 21
8:30am
For details and to register - http:www.thelastmileracing.com/holcombfarm10K.html
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SUMMER FARM FUN CAMP: Grades 1 - 6
June 28 - August 13
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:00pm
$230.00 per week
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SUMMER FARM FUN CAMP: Preschool & K
June 28 - August 13
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 12:00pm
$145.00 per week
September
HARVEST SERIES: Seed Collecting
Saturday, September 18
12:00pm - 2:00pm
$5/members & $10/non-members
Join Susan Mitchell, Holcomb Farm's Asst. Farm Manager, to learn how to collect and store seeds from this year's bounty for next year's crop. Registration is requested.
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TASTE OF GRANBY
Thursday, September 23
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Spend the evening sipping fine wine or beer, tasting all the wonderful foods Granby has to offer and tapping your toes to the tunes of local musicians. Meet and thank members of the Granby Chamber of Commerce who are hosting this Holcomb Farm fundraiser for the second year in a row!
Purchase tickets through the Holcomb Farm office or a Holcomb Farm Board member or the Granby Chamber of Commerce. Checks should be made payable to "Granby Chamber of Commerce."
For more information click here.
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HAYLOFT HARVEST DINNER
Saturday, September 25
5:00pm - 9:30pm
Celebrate the Farm's edible bounty with a dinner in the historic Hayloft to support our Fresh Access program. Dinner prepared by well-known local chef, Chris Prosperi of Metro Bis, featuring foods grown right here on the Farm or from local farms. Music by the Glue Factory as well as a magni-ficient silent auction!
October
FALL FESTIVAL
Monday, October 11
11:00am - 4:00pm
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FALL SCOUT DAY
Saturday, October 30
Cub Scouts: 9:30am - 11:30am
Girl Scouts: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Boy Scouts:
Webelos: Naturalist Badge
Wolves: Your Living World Elective
Bears: Take Care of Your Planet Elective
Tigers: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Elective
Girl Scouts:
Junior Girl Scout: Outdoor Creativity Badge
Brownies: Eco-Explorer Elective
$8.00 per scout, preregistration requested.
Registration for each session begins 1/2 hour prior to the start of the program.
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PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST
& POTLUCK PARTY
Saturday, October 30
6:00pm
Let the grand rumpus begin! Pack your potluck, plates and plans and come on down to the Farm for a evening of creativity and fun.
November
December
GRANBY ARTIST ASSOCIATION
SMALL WORKS SHOW
Friday, December 3 - Sunday, December 5
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CAROL SING
Sunday, December 5
5:00pm
Help us light up the holiday season with a carol sing around our Holiday Tree. You never know what jolly old soul may show up to join the chorus!
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FUNDRAISER AT FLATBREAD
Tuesday, December 21
5:00pm to close
January 2010
FARM TALES BOOK CLUB
Wednesday, January 12
7:00pm - 9:00pm
The Wisdom of the Last Farmer, by David Mas Masamoto
Books available at the Granby Public Library and the Cossitt Library
Call to signup at either Holcomb Farm or Granby Public Library.
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CONSERVATION HEROES LECTURE SERIES #2
Monday, January 11
"A History of Holcomb Farm and the Roots of
Laura and Tudor Holcomb"
by Mark Williams, Historian & Author
Holcomb Farm Workshop
7:00pm
Reception with Speaker to follow
Admission free!
The lecture series is sponsored by McLean Game Refuge, Holcomb Farm, Salmon Brook Associates, Hartland Land Trust and Granby Land Trust.
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HEALTHY LIVING SERIES
IMMUNITY BOOST
Friday, January 9
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Out, out damned virus! Begone fatigue! Away with you, aches and pains! Wake up the lymph system, clean out those airways, unclog those organs.
Spend an evening of yoga, healthy eating habits and recipes, and enlightening discussion all focussing on how to jump start your immune system.
Healthy food and drinks will be provided at each session.
$50.00 per class or $135.00 for all three. Pre-registration is required as space is limited.
February
CONSERVATION HEROES LECTURE SERIES #3
Tuesday, February 9
"Mary Edwards: Granby’s First Lady of Conservation"
by Put Brown, Granby Probate Judge and
former President, Granby Land Trust
Holcomb Farm Workshop
7:00pm
Reception with Speaker to follow
Admission free!
The lecture series is sponsored by McLean Game Refuge, Holcomb Farm, Salmon Brook Associates, Hartland Land Trust and Granby Land Trust.
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FEBRUARY VACATION FARM FUN CAMP
February 15 - 19
Grades 1 - 6
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 3:00pm
$200/members $220/non-members
March
FARM TALES BOOK CLUB
Tuesday, March 2
7:00pm - 9:00pm
The Earth Knows My Name, by Patricia Klindienst
Books available at the Granby Public Library and the Cossitt Library
Call to signup at either Holcomb Farm or Granby Public Library.
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HEALTHY LIVING SERIES
Friday, March 5
6:30pm - 9:30pm
MOVING THROUGH THE AGES
Are you Snap, Crackle, Pop or Creak, Creak, Creak or stiff as a board? Do you forget why you went into that room or what you were going to say? Maybe you're as limber as a gymnast and as sharp as a tack, but would like to learn how to protect your joints, improve your memory, and banish inflammation. Through a series of yoga positions, suggested eating habits and informative discussion, you will learn how to keep yourself moving happily through all the ages and stages of life.
Healthy food and drinks will be provided at each session.
$50.00 per class. Pre-registration is required as space is limited.
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CONSERVATION HEROES LECTURE SERIES #4
Tuesday, March 9
"The Reverend Milne and the Conservation
Roots of CFPA"
by Adam Moore, Executive Director,
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation,
Martha’s Vineyard
Holcomb Farm Workshop
7:00pm
Reception with Speaker to follow
Admission free!
The lecture series is sponsored by McLean Game Refuge, Holcomb Farm, Salmon Brook Associates, Hartland Land Trust and Granby Land Trust.
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HEALTHY LIVING SERIES
Friday, March 19
6:30pm - 9:30pm
PUT THE SPRING BACK IN YOUR STEP: DETOX
Feeling sluggish, bloated, out of shape. Sick of winter, the cold and the ice. Then put a bit of Spring back into your life -- detox. Our integrative health pros will show you some easy yoga poses, share recipes to support and nourish and thoroughly explore the benefits of detoxification for your body and soul.
Healthy food and drinks will be provided at each session.
$50.00 per class. Pre-registration is required as space is limited.
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GAA FAMILY FUN DAY
Saturday, March 27
10:00am - 2:00pm
Several professional artists from the Granby Artists Association will demonstrate and share their skills in a variety of media to all ages. Come try your hand making jewelry, painting, sculpture, comics and much, much more! Free to the public. Event will be held rain or shine.
April
FARM TALES BOOK CLUB
Tuesday, April 6
7:00pm - 9:00pm
The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck
Books available at the Granby Public Library and the Cossitt Library
Call to signup at either Holcomb Farm or Granby Public Library.
FARM WORK DAY
Sunday, April 18
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Grab your rake, don your work gloves and head on down to the Farm! Help us clean out invasives, uncover old gardens, build animal enclosures, plant perennials, and spruce up the place!
May
SPRING SCOUT DAY
Saturday, May 1
9:30am - 3:00pm
Badges for all!
Boy Scouts:
Webelos - Geology Badge
Wolves - Birds
Bears - Weather
Tiger - Feed the Birds
Girl Scouts:
Junior Girl Scouts - Earth Connections
Brownies - Watching Wildlife
Cub Scouts from 9:30am - 11:30am
Girl Scouts & Brownies from 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Cost: $8.00
Registration requested
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CONSERVATION HEROES LECTURE SERIES Performance
and
Potluck Dinner
Saturday, May 1
"Forces of Nature"
starring
Put Brown as John Muir
Eric Lukingbeal as Gifford Pinchot
Warren Markey as President Theodore Roosevelt
a reading play based on the tensions and conflicts between
Gifford Pinchot and John Muir.
At 6:00pm join fellow theatre goers for a potluck dinner. Bring a dish to share and your own beverages!
6:00pm in the Hay Loft for Potluck Dinner (BYOB)
Play starts at 7:15pm
The word "conservation" means something quite different to each of us, and that always has been the case. For some, it means leaving whatever is found in the natural world just as it is. Trees should grow to craggy old age and be replaced by new shoots that take their places when sufficient light comes to them. Fires should seen as part of the natural processes of nature, essential to creating openings for new growth, and the seeming anarchy of nature should be celebrated as creating a surpassing beauty that no work of man can imitate. Such an attitude sees nature as the highest form of poetry, subtle in its elegance and having something akin to a soul. John Muir, a Scotsman born in 1838, was of this view. Gifford Pinchot, 27 years younger than Muir and a native of Simsbury, saw things from a different perspective. He was a professional forester, the first Chief of the United States Forest Service, who was trained in the well manicured forests of Europe. He advocated the conservation of the nation's forest reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man."
These two perspectives, those of Muir and Pinchot, will be explored in a staged dramatic reading of "FORCES OF NATURE," a play in three acts, at the Holcomb Farm on May 1 at 7:00 PM. Written by Stephen Most and originally performed at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, FORCES OF NATURE will explore the personalities of these two men and their different views of what "conservation" should mean. Put Brown will play the role of Muir; Eric Lukingbeal the role of Pinchot; and Warren Markey the role of Theodore Roosevelt, who had the sometimes difficult task of finding common ground in their two perspectives and, in the process, creating public support for the creation and funding of so many of the National Parks that we now take almost for granted. Roosevelt, egged on by men such as Muir and Pinchot, but also by the public outcry their debates and oratory created, set aside more parks and wild lands than any other President has.
It is a fascinating story and the evening promises to be both educational and entertaining.
The lecture series is sponsored by McLean Game Refuge, Holcomb Farm, Salmon Brook Associates, Hartland Land Trust and Granby Land Trust.
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PEDALS FOR PROGRESS
Sunday, May 2
Noon - 3:00pm
Pedals for Progress, in its continuing effort to recycle bicycles properly, is having a used bike collection sponsored by Jackie Johnson with support from Holcomb Farm. Anyone with an adult or child’s bicycle in repairable condition is urged to donate his or her bike to this worthy cause. We do not accept “bikes for parts” or disassembled bikes. Bikes can be dropped off from 12 Noon to 3 PM on Sunday, May 2, 2010 rain or shine @ Holcomb Farm, 113 Simsbury Rd., W. Granby, CT 06090.
It cIt costs $35 to collect, process, ship, rebuild and distribute each bicycle. A donation toward shipping costs is necessary (suggested minimum $10 per bike). All cash and material donations are fully tax deductible and a receipt will be available at the collection site. We also accept working portable sewing machines.
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SALMON FRY BIRTHDAY PARTY
Saturday, May 8
9:00am - 10:00am
Join Holcomb Farm and Cossitt Library staff as they celebrate the release of salmon fry into the Salmon Brook. Enjoy a piece of birthday cake and a story. Then everyone will get a salmon fry or two to release into the brook themselves!
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FARM TALES BOOK CLUB
Tuesday, May 18
7:00pm - 9:00pm
A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley
This month join Lynn Bloom from UConn who will lead the discussion on this wonderful book! The books and discussion are provided through the Connecticut Humanities Council Literature for a Lifetime Series.
Books available at the Granby Public Library and the Cossitt Library
Call to signup at either Holcomb Farm or Granby Public Library.
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DAILY LIFE SCHOLA
Society for Creative Anachronism Event
Saturday , May 22
10:00am - 6:00pm
For more information about this event, visit the website below:
http://www.eastkingdom.org/event-detail.html?eid=1893
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PROGRESSIVE DINNER
Saturday, May 22
6:15pm Cocktails in the Hay Loft
7:30pm Dinner at a Host House
9:00pm Dessert at Wilmot Manor
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HAY LOFT CONCERT: Mark Erelli
Friday, May 28
6:00pm parking area open
7:00pm doors open
7:30pm concert
$20.00 per ticket in advance
$25.00 per ticket at the door
Discovered at an impromptu 3 am hotel room jam at a music conference when just 23 years old, Mark Erelli finished up a graduate degree in evolutionary biology shortly after his self-titled debut was released in 1999. He has won several prestigious awards, from the Kerrville New Folk contest in 1999 to the 2006 International Song Contest, where a song he co-wrote with Catie Curtis bested 15,000 entries to win the grand prize. For the past 10 years, he has maintained a rigorous, international touring schedule, sharing the stage with Dave Alvin, Gillian Welch, John Hiatt and others, as well appearing at many major folk festivals, including Newport, Philadelphia and Shrewsbury (UK). In recent years, Erelli has gained notoriety as a multi-instrumentalist sideman, accompanying artists such as Lori McKenna and Josh Ritter everywhere from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry to London's Royal Albert Hall. Erelli has seven records to his name, including collections of western swing (Hillbilly Pilgrim), lullabies (Innocent When You Dream) and songs of stirring social conscience (Hope & Other Casualties, WUMB Folk Radio's #1 record of 2006). In 2009, he was one of eight artists invited to the UK to take part in the Darwin Song Project, a collaborative release featuring songs inspired by the life and work of Charles Darwin. Mark Erelli is anticipating two new releases for 2010, a collection of murder ballads recorded with Jeffrey Foucault called Seven Curses, and Little Vigils, his ninth full-length studio record.
E-mail us at info@holcombfarm.org to reserve your tickets today!
June
SPRING INTO SUMMER FESTIVAL
Saturday, June 5
11:00am - 4:00pm
Come down to the Farm and celebrate the start of the growing season! Watch the sheep being sheared, meet the newest additions to our barnyard (chicks and baby goats), and enjoy music, food, 4H demonstrations, pony rides and try out dozens of toys (yo-yos, sphere play, ribbon wands, juggling balls, etc) at the Play-4-All. It's going to be a GREAT day!
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CT TRAILS DAY
Saturday, June 5
Come for the Festival and enjoy a wonderful hike while your here! All hikes start at Holcomb Farm.
9:00am Storybook Trail Hike
Preschoolers and Kindergarten kids will love illustrated
hike along the east side field at the Farm.
10:00am A Trifecta Hike - Holcomb Farm, Granby Land
Trust's Diamond Ledges, and McLean Game Refuge.
Join Jim Lofink, Holcomb Farm's Executive Director, Rick Orluk,
President of Granby Land Trust, and Steve Paine, Manager of
McLean Game Refuge for a fabulous romp on three magnificent
properties!
1:00pm Salmon Brook Stream Walk
Dick Caley, President of the Salmon Brook Watershed will lead
this walk up the Salmon Brook exploring aquatic habitats,
testing water quality and demonstrating the importance of
protecting our watershed.
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LEARNING CENTER WORK DAY
Sunday, June 13
12:30pm - 4:00pm
Grab a rake, shovel, work gloves and clippers and help us finish cleaning up the Farm campus for summer. Help build an outdoor cage for our skunk, clear out fallen trees from along Salmon Brook, plant periennials and shrubs in the Farmhouse garden, move wood chips and help plant our sunflower garden! Come for the day or just for an hour. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
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ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
OF HOLCOMB FARM MEMBERS
Tuesday, June 15
8:00am
in the Workshop
AGENDA
Annual Reports
Election of Directors
Other Business
All members in good standing of Holcomb Farm are entitled to attend the Annual Meeting of the Members and participate in the nomination and election of directors and any other business that may come before the meeting.
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FRIDAY FARM FEAST- Potluck
Friday, June 18
6:00pm
Bring a dish to share down to the Farm! We'll be making pizza ($1.00 per slice) in our beehive oven using CSA farm fresh produce, sharing great food and good stories with awesome company!
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SUMMER FARM FUN CAMP: Grades 1 - 6
June 28 - August 13
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:00pm
$230.00 per week
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SUMMER FARM FUN CAMP: Preschool & K
June 28 - August 13
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 12:00pm
$145.00 per week
(STREAM SPLASH WEEK 7/19 is SOLD OUT)
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FRIDAY FARM FEAST- Potluck
Friday, July 16
6:00pm
Bring a dish to share down to the Farm! We'll be making pizza in our beehive oven using CSA farm fresh produce, sharing great food and good stories with awesome company! All ages and stages welcome.
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