Announcing the Upstate Farm Tour - Next Weekend, June 4 and 5
Upstate Locavores
We hope you are doing well as we move into the summer farming and gardening season!
See below for information about the Upstate Farm Tour - we hope that you can find time to meet local farmers and learn more about local sources of fresh, healthy food here in the Upstate.
Sincerely,
Ellie Taylor and Catherine Mobley
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The 5th Annual Upstate Farm Tour is next weekend, June 4-5 from 1:00-6:00 p.m. on both days!
Meet local farmers & tour their beautiful, sustainable farms!
The 2011 tour features 20 local farms, including fruit and vegetable growers, livestock producers, two dairies, a worm farm, a hydroponics producer, and even a buffalo farm! Two farms, Live Oak Farm in Woodruff, and the Student Organic Farm at Clemson University, will be selling farm fresh meals, cooked on-site by acclaimed local chefs. Just a few of the unique treats in store on this year’s tour: tractor hayrides, hug an alpaca, corn grinding, beekeeping and backyard chicken demonstrations, lots of cute baby animals, herbal snow cones, and much more!
The Upstate Farm Tour is self-guided, and farms are located all around the Upstate, including Anderson, Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Laurens, and Spartanburg counties. To take the tour, get a map and purchase entrance buttons online at www.carolinafarmstewards.org or at Whole Foods Market in Greenville. Load up your vehicle with friends and family, pack a cooler in the trunk for all the farm-fresh goodies you’ll want to take home, and then use the map to plot your course!
Buttons and maps are also
available at these Upstate locations:
Hub City Farmer’s Market (Spartanburg); Happy Cow Creamery (Pelzer);
Live Oak Farm Store (Woodruff); Split Creek Farm (Anderson); Hurricane Creek
Farm (Pelzer); Davis Downtown Market (Anderson).
The tour costs $25 in advance
per vehicle or cycle group. Entrance
buttons may also be purchased on tour days at Whole Foods and at every farm for
$30. Individual farms may be toured for
$10.
For more information and to buy your tour tickets, visit:
www.carolinafarmstewards.org/uft2011.shtml
The event is co-sponsored by
the CFSA and Whole Foods Market, and proceeds support the work of the Carolina
Farm Stewardship Association.
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