Theme: Hoes Down

News From the Farm | Week of October 7, 2013

October 7, 2013

The Hoes Down Harvest Festival was on October 5th and 6th, a weekend chock full of family farm fun.  The Hay Fort was one of the busiest and happiest locations. We have an experienced Hay Fort safety crew (the green shirts in this photo) that make sure kid safety and fun are the top priority.

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News From the Farm | Week of September 23, 2013

September 23, 2013

Kick Your Heels Up and Put Your Hoes Down!

Every year it seems as though the calendar pages turn a little faster, the days speed by a bit, well, speedier, and just as we, the farmers, are about to collapse from summer exhaustion a glorious thing happens. The nights get cooler. The days get shorter. The last melons and tomatoes and hot-weather crops come out of the field. Fall is upon us. Sigh. Fall is so dreamy.

For most farms, this change in season signals a slow down – a time to drink bigger cups of decaf coffee and reflect on the summer. A time to begin work on all of the projects that were pushed aside while tomatoes and basil and eggplant and peppers needed harvesting. A time to wake up later and go to sleep earlier. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it…), Full Belly Farm is not like most farms. The folks here at Full Belly are still in a frenzy, gearing up for the 26th annual Hoes Down Harvest Festival, happening the first weekend in October.  [Read more…]

News From the Farm | October 15, 2012

October 15, 2012

For those of you who were able to attend our October 6th Hoes Down Harvest Festival, thank you for making the day an incredible experience and wonderfully successful event. Nearly 6,000 folks celebrated the closing of a long summer season with dance, great food, information sharing, farm tours, hands on activities and a night of camping in the farm orchards. We talked about the day briefly in last week’s Beet, but the magnitude of the effort deserves a bit more attention. We spent the last week cleaning up: Taking down the hay fort and stacking all of the straw and hay. Packing away signs, stoves, canopies, flying fox gear, kitchen equipment and scarecrows in a side bay of the old hay barn where they will gather dust until next September. Hauling off trash and recycling and returning beer kegs so that the farm can resume the rhythm of this fall season. Now the farm has returned to nearly normal, ready for work. [Read more…]

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