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Pumpkin Fest!

It’s fall and you know what that means: Pumpkin Fest!

FREE and open to the public!

Grab your friends and family and join us at Long Lane Farm’s annual Pumpkin Fest, Saturday, October 13, 2018, from noon to 4 pm! Featuring live student bands, farm tours, crafts, baked goods for sale, a pie-eating contest, vendors & student groups, FREE veggie burgers and cider, and much more!

Visit wesleyan.edu/coe for more info. Sponsored by Long Lane Farm, the College of the Environment and Bon Appetit.

Rain date: Sunday, October 14, noon to 4 p.m.

Date: Saturday, October 13
Time: 12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Place: Long Lane Farm
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Just Food Dinner

Long Lane Farm, the North End Action Team and Bon Appétit are co-hosting a sit-down charity dinner to support the North End Farmer’s Market:

The North End Farmers Market is a wonderful and vital space in our community, and through its double dollars program it makes fresh, local, organic produce accessible and affordable for everyone! 100% of the proceeds from this dinner go directly to the double dollars program. Come enjoy some delicious food, generously catered for free by Bon Appétit, meet organizers from NEAT and Long Lane, discuss food justice, and support your local farmer’s market! Suggested minimum donation is $25 for adults, $15 for students and youth, cash or check. Donating gets you a three course meal, no extra charges! Check Facebook for the menu, vegan options available.

Date: Tuesday, May 8
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Place: Daniel Family Commons, 3rd floor Usdan (45 Wyllys Ave.)
Cost: $25 minimum donation for adults; $15 minimum donation for students/youth, cash or checks made out to “North End Action Team”
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If you can’t come, but still would like to support the Double Dollars program, you can donate at this You Caring page.

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Weed Dating at Long Lane Farm

From the farmers down at Long Lane comes an opportunity to get dirty and support a good cause:

This Friday, April 20, from 3-5pm, come down to the farm and weed with your sweetheart (or your wescam)! There will be a bake sale to support the North End Farmer’s Market’s Double Dollars program. Speed dating optional!

Date: Friday, 4/20
Time: 3-5pm
Place: Long Lane Farm (243 Long Lane, at the corner of Long Lane and Wadsworth)
Cost: however many baked goods you want to buy! cash and venmo ok

Busy this Friday, but want to support the North End Farmer’s Market? Check out this fundraising campaign in support of the Double Dollars program, which helps makes fresh food more affordable for people with low and fixed incomes, and supports Middletown-area farmers from late spring to early fall.

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May Day at Long Lane Farm

This Saturday at Long Lane, come celebrate spring in the warm weather!

Come out and smell the flowers from 12 to 4pm! There will be free veggie burgers and live music, as well as arts and crafts, a scavenger hunt, student groups and farm tours. Try your hand at potato planting, if you like, or decorate a pot and take home your own tomato plant.

Date: Saturday, April 29
Time: 12-4pm
Place: Long Lane Farm, 243 Long Lane (at the corner of Long Lane and Wadsworth St.)
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Long Lane Farm as a Community Space

A message from the Long Lane Farm Collective:

Spring seems to have come early and it’s lovely to spend time outside. Long Lane is a community farm and we want our space to be enjoyed!

We do, however, ask that anyone wishing to use the farm check in with the collective before doing so, because we want to ensure our plants, animals, and visitors are safe and sound. This goes for student groups, but also individuals, any time of day, whether you want to use our space for a social gathering, a project, or just to borrow our equipment. You can get in touch with any member of the collective, or email the farm email (weslonglanefarm[at]gmail[dot]com) with what you’re planning and any ways we can help. We’ll discuss your plans and let you know what we decide and what, if anything, you should know to make sure the farm is well taken care of.

As always, if you want to get involved with the farm, we’d love to see you at a community workday, every Saturday at the farm (the corner of Wadsworth and Long Lane) from 10-2; a weekly meeting every Sunday at 5pm in Boger Hall 110; or you can email us to be added to the listserv! All levels of experience are welcome!

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Pumpkin Fest needs Bands and Activities!

long lane farm forum kids frolickingFrom Selene Canter ’19:

Do you or your friends want to be a part of Long Lane Farm’s annual Pumpkin Fest, a celebration of autumn with music, arts & crafts, and food? We’re looking for student groups to table and bands to play! The date is Saturday October 8th from 12:00-4:00 If your band wants to play or if your student group would like a table, email scanter[at]wesleyan[dot]edu to secure a spot! It’s going to be a blast and a half, folks. Really very fun.

Date: Saturday, October 8
Time: 12-4 PM
Place: Long Lane Farm

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Pancakes at Farm House

pancakesFrom the inimitable Matthew Gilbert ’19:

!!!Come one come all to PANCAKES @ Farm House!!! Start the year off right by joining Farm House in our annual pancake breakfast! Meet and greet our lovely residents and learn about the farm here at Wes.

ALSO!!!!!!!! After pancakes we will walk over to LONG LANE FARM together for some farmin’!

Don’t know where Farm House is? Come by Weshop at 9AM and we will walk over together!!

BRING FROSH
BRING YOUR FRIENDS
BRING YOUR EMPTY STOMACHS AND READY-TO-WORK HANDS

***Pancakes are vegan***

Date: Saturday, September 10
Time: 9-11AM
Place: Farm House (344 Washington St., across the street from Indian Hill)
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Farm Forum Interest Meeting

mung beanFrom Mariel Hohmann ’18 and Lil Saul ’19 comes this invitation to get down and dirty… for credit!

Farm forum is a discussion based class focusing on different methods of farming throughout the world, including here at Wesleyan. Every week, for one class we will read perspectives on farming, and for another class session we will work at Long Lane Farm, the student farm here on campus.

There will be snacks and laughter :)

Date: Thursday, September 8
Time: 7-8PM
Place: Boger 110

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Long Lane Farm Bucket List Work Day

IMG_4607Attention all seniors!

Have you been meaning to come to the farm since you were a frosh? Is your thesis done and all you want to do is be outside? Are you worried about what you learned at Wes and interested in supplementing all that great theory with some agricultural skill? Do you want to spend your Saturday morning with some cool farmers, ducks and chickens?

It’s not too late! Come to Long Lane this Saturday at 10AM to check a day on the farm off your Wesleyan bucket list! Workdays usually last about 2 hours; the perfect amount of time to get some work in before heading to Zonker.

All class years and levels of experience are welcome, but we especially want to give seniors a chance to experience Long Lane!

A group will be meeting in the Neon Deli Parking Lot at 10 to walk down to the farm together.

Date: Saturday, April 16
Time: 10AM
Place: Long Lane Farm (corner of Long Lane and Wadsworth) OR Neon Parking Lot (130 Cross St)

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Summer Farming Interest Meetings

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Are you still figuring out your summer plans? Do you love vegetables and/or dirt and/or poultry? Have you always dreamt of having your own hands-on agricultural experience? Would you like to be more involved in the Middletown community?

 

 

If you missed this last week, never fear! You can still learn all about spending the summer at Long Lane Farm, at one of two interest meetings. If meeting a lovely bunch of farming folk isn’t attraction enough, there will also be (tbd) SNACKS.

Dates: Wednesday, February 10 and Thursday, February 11
Time: 8:30PM and 12:30PM, respectively
Place: PAC 421 or Usdan 110, respectively