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Farm Festival at Moraine Farm in Beverly

MoraineFarm welcomes the public to its Farm Festival at 719 Cabot Street, Beverly, onSaturday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The festival offers tours,kid-friendly fun, farm animals, lectures, homemade goodies and storytellingactivities sponsored by the six non-profit organizations that own and managethe 170-acre farm. Moraine Farm is permanently protected conservation landalong the shores of Wenham Lake that includes meadows, woodlands and formalgardens as well as farmland. The landscape was designed by Frederick LawOlmsted in the 1880s and its woodlands are studded with mature rhododendronstands and azaleas.

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

Events:
10:00Walking tour of Trustees’ CommunityFarm with farm manager Gretta Anderson. (Startsat the Red Barn)

10:30Family Story Hour (Atthe Red Barn)

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

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

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

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

12:00Edible and medicinal farm weed walk with herbalist Iris Weaver and farmerGretta Anderson ($10). (Startsat the Red Barn)

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1:00 Lecture by National Park ServiceOlmsted landscape historian and supervisory park ranger Alan Banks in thehistoric 1907 Peabody and Stearns designed Red Barn. (Atthe Red Barn)

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

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

Throughout the day:

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

TheTrustees 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.

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

Localfarmers and specialty food producers will sell their wares,including Moraine Farm Veggie Farm stand, Maitland Mountain Pickles,
Valley View Farm, TomtenBeeworks and herbalist Iris Weaver.

Visitthe Nubian goats.

Pedala bicycle-powered apple cider press.

Cookwareand cooking demonstrations by representatives of cookware maker Le Creuset.

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