Moraine Farm Festival in Beverly

Moraine
Farm welcomes the public to its Farm Festival at 719 Cabot Street, Beverly, on
Saturday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival offers tours,
kid-friendly fun, farm animals, lectures, homemade goodies and storytelling
activities sponsored by the six non-profit organizations that own and manage
the 170-acre farm. Moraine Farm is permanently protected conservation land
along the shores of Wenham Lake that includes meadows, woodlands and formal
gardens as well as farmland. The landscape was designed by Frederick Law
Olmsted in the 1880s and its woodlands are studded with mature rhododendron
stands and azaleas.

Moraine
Farm is home to Project Adventure, the Cape Ann Waldorf School, and The
Trustees of Reservations. Essex County Greenbelt, the Friends of the Olmsted
Landscape and the Batchelder Trust act in partnership as stewards of the
protected land. All events take place at Moraine Farm, 719 Cabot Street,
Beverly, MA

Events:

10:00
Walking tour of Trustees’ Community
Farm with farm manager Gretta Anderson. (Starts
at the Red Barn)

10:30
Family Story Hour (At
the Red Barn)

10:30
Moraine Farm bingo/scavenger hunt with Greenbelt, Essex County’s Land Trust. (Starts
at Project Adventure)

11:00
Build a native pollinator house with Dave and Mary Mansur, Tomten Beeworks and
Cape Ann Waldorf School (At
the Red Barn)

11:00 -1:00 Lunch: farm fresh soup, bread and dessert at Cape
Ann Waldorf School. (At
Cape Ann Waldorf School)

11:30
Forty-five-minute walking tour of the historic Olmsted property with the Friends of
the Olmsted Landscape (Starts
at Cape Ann Waldorf School intersection)

12:00
Edible and medicinal farm weed walk with herbalist Iris Weaver and farmer
Gretta Anderson ($10). (Starts
at the Red Barn)

1:00  
Lecture by National Park Service
Olmsted landscape historian and supervisory park ranger Alan Banks in the
historic 1907 Peabody and Stearns designed Red Barn. (At
the Red Barn)

2:00  
Native pollinator farm walk with Dave and Mary Mansur, Tomten Beeworks and
Waldorf School. (Starts
at the Red Barn)

2:15
Forty-five-minute walking tour of the historic Olmsted property with the
Friends of the Olmsted Landscape. (Starts
at Cape Ann Waldorf School) 

Throughout the day:

Project
Adventure’s world-class High and Low Ropes Challenge Course.  Inside its
headquarters visitors can check out the innovative adventure-based
programming and
training it has offered for 40 years.

The
Trustees of Reservations will offer several tours of its popular working farm
and thriving Community Supported Agriculture program. Visitors can create a
pollinator box and install it on the farm.

Free
play in the woodland play area and the sports court at the Waldorf School.

Local
farmers and specialty food producers will sell their wares,
including Moraine Farm Veggie Farm stand, Maitland Mountain Pickles,
Valley View Farm, Tomten
Beeworks and herbalist Iris Weaver.

Visit
the Nubian goats.

Pedal
a bicycle-powered apple cider press.

Cookware
and cooking demonstrations by representatives of cookware maker Le Creuset.