All Day Activities 10am–3pm
The Day is action packed! Don’t forget to stop by the Farmer’s Market for some fresh local produce, and pick up a few plants for your garden at the Plant Sale.

Farmer’s Market • Organic Plant Sale • Meet the Beekeeper
Eat Your Veggies Cooking Demos • Nicolas’ Garden
Interactive Community Booths • Children’s Activity Tent

Co-op Farmstand Cafe Lunch 11–2, click for full menu

Equal Exchange Coffee, Magpie baked goods, Straus Organic Soft Serve Ice Cream

 

Stop by the Elderberry Farms Native Plant Nursery

• Native Plant Sale — 10–3pm
• Wild Edibles Walk in Demonstration Garden with Alicia Funk — 10:15
• Native Summer Fruits! — 11:00
  Join Alicia Funk in a journey to delicious summertime foods and medicine available through local, wild plants that are easy to grow in the garden. Enjoy tastes of Manzanita Cider and get a signed copy of the new edition of her book, Living Wild — Gardening, Cooking and Healing with Native Plants of California.

Outdoor Classroom

• Millington Strings— 10–11:30am
• Rod Stinson —11:45–12:15pm
• Get to Know Soil Born Farms — 12:15–1pm
  Founders & Co-Directors Janet Zeller and Shawn Harrison will be joined by Guy Galante, Sarah Barnes, Randy Standard and Blake Young for a brief presentation about the vision, values, programs and partnerships of Soil Born Farms.
• Special Performance by Mary Youngblood — 1pm
• Commemoration of the Outdoor Classroom — 1:30pm
  Honoring Leadership Sacramento Class of 2012 & the Sponsors
• Basket House — 2:15–3pm

Music & Dancing

• Millington Strings — 10–11:30pm
  Classical String Quartet
• Mind X — 11am–3pm
  Northern California’s premiere groove-funk-bluegrass- jazz-psychedelic-rock band
• Rod Stinson — 11:45 - 12:15
  Acoustic Folk Rock /Indie
• Mary Youngblood — 1pm
  First Lady of the Flute
• Basket House — 2:15-3pm
  Funky Folky Bluesy local teens

Farm Tours (meet at event central)
Tour the farm with a member of the Soil Born Farms staff and be inspired by this non profi t urban farm and educational project. Tours will last about 45 minutes, covering some uneven terrain.
10:15 • 11:15 • 12:15 • 1:15 • 2:15

Especially for Kids and Families
Children's Activity Tent — Games • Art • Nature Activities

• Parachute — 10–1pm
• Deer Grass Planting in the Youth Garden — 11–2 pm
• Watering Can Relay

Eat the Rainbow

• Eat Your Veggies Cooking Demos
• Learn about Nicolas’ Garden
• Healthy Eating Games & Activities
• Harvest Sacramento Honey Lemonade Stand
• The Good Stuff

Kids’ Chill Zone

• StringPlay Violins — 10:30am
• Stories with the Sacramento Public Library — 11 – 1pm

Nature Crafts Tent

• Make Your Own Rope — 10am
• The Art of Natural Dyeing — 11am
• Wild Plant Crafts — noon
• Fun with Fiber! — 1pm
• Recycled Art & Nature Art Activities with reCREATE — 2pm

Meet the Farm Animals — Orchard Chill Tent
Farmer Jared will introduce you to our farm animals. Find out why they are an important part of the farm and why he is raising heritage breeds. You will hear the love story of Barley and Millet and their piglets. See our new bull calf, baby lambs and say hello to Phoebe, Luna and the sheep.
10:30 • 11:30 • 1:30 • 2:30

School Garden Expo — Sponsored by School Garden Coalition, a project of Slow Food Sacramento
Stop by and check out some of the most innovative school garden projects and some of the students who are making it happen.

Pasture Ping Pong

Face Painting & Photo Booth

Cooking Classes in the Co-op Cooking Tent
Join instructors from the Co-op’s Cooking School and learn new ways to enjoy beautiful seasonal produce!

• Eating Healthy on a Budget
  with Dawn Dunlap — 10:15 am
• The Art of Real Food
  with Joanne Neft and Laura Kenny — 11 am
• Cooking with Fresh Herbs
  with Ame Harrington — noon
• Farm Fresh Omelets
  with Jill Simmons — 1 pm
• Kraut and Pickles
  with Janet McDonald — 2 pm

Workshops

• Gardening in Containers
  with Bill Maynard — 10:15 am
• Simple Landscape Design
  with Akie Wenk — 10:15 am
• Wild Food Walk
  With Alicia Funk, author of Living Wild — 10:15 am
• Raising Chickens in Your Back Yard
  with Greg Howes & Brian Fikes — 10:30 am and 12:30 pm
• Intro to the “Grow Your Groceries” Farmer Training Program
  with Sarah Barnes — 10:30 am
• Herbal and Floral Essences for Health and Beauty
  with Kat Fleming — 11 am
• Tasting Native Summer Fruits
  with Alicia Funk, author of Living Wild — 11 am
• Seed Saving
  with Harald Hoven — 11 am
• Organic Gardening 101
  with Antonio Garza — 11 am and 2:15 pm
• Irrigation for Home Gardeners
  with Liz Hubbard — 11 am
• Vermicomposting & Compost Tea
  with Randy Stannard — 11:15 am
• The Importance of Bees
  with Brian Fishback — 11:30 am
• Medicinal “Weeds”
  with Jan Lowry — 12 noon
• Bird Walk on the Parkway
  with Cathie LaZier — 12 noon
• Backyard Fruit Tree Care
  with Antonio Garza — 12:15 pm
• Creating a Flower Garden
  with Elle Huftill-Balzer — 12:15 pm
• Container Gardening for the Whole Family
  with Liz Hubbard — 1:15 pm
• Composting 101
  with Bill Maynard — 1:30 pm
• Making Medicine from Culinary Herbs
  with Jan Lowry — 1:30 pm
• Growing Your Medicine Cabinet
  with Michele Ranieri — 1:30 pm
• Neighborhood Fruit Gleaning:
  How to Start Your Own Group
  with Randy Stannard & Dominic Allemano — 2 pm
• Starting and Maintaining a School Garden
  with Shannon Hardwicke — 2 pm

Schedule is subject to change, please check the event schedule posted near the Soil Born info booth for updates and additions