Get Ready to Garden Next Saturday!
We’re one week away from the Horn Farm’s 12th annual Plant Sale, taking place on Saturday, May 4th from 9am to 3pm!
This one-day sale and community event is offered in partnership with Horn Farm Center and Kilgore Family Farm and features a wide variety of organically-grown vegetable, herb, and flower starts for your home garden.
Other unique plant and community vendors will include:
- Calyx Native Nursery
- Ort Family Farm
- Green Barn Farm
- Future Forest Plants
- Noel’s Cafe – food truck offering coffee and other refreshments
- Earthbound Artisan
- Virtue Local Art Market
And back by popular demand, patrons will enjoy musical entertainment by Nodding Onion, an experimental band that uses sound waves from plants to create unique natural soundscapes on which the musicians will improvise.
Make a plan to visit the Horn Farm Plant Sale to get your garden started this year!
The 12th annual Horn Farm Plant Sale is sponsored by:
Learn More about the Horn Farm Plant Sale
Community in Action
What better way to celebrate Earth Day weekend than with over 50 volunteers helping regenerate the land?This past Sunday, we hosted groups from The Stone Independent School, York College Center for Community Engagement, and Paradise Evangelical Lutheran Church for a true riparian buffer marathon. Our intrepid volunteers planted over 100 trees and laid over 5 TONS of rocks around tree tubes as part of ongoing maintenance across the buffer.
Throughout April, we’ve been so grateful for folks (or better, *treeple*) from the Stone Independent School and independent volunteers for helping make ten acres of tending possible. With the added help from YCP and other folks this Sunday, we made it the extra mile! Thank you to our volunteers!
Monday, April 29th is our final tending day of the month. Learn more and sign up to volunteer for the Horn Farm Center’s riparian buffer work.
Eat, Drink, & Give Local for the River
Stop by upstairs at John Wright Restaurant any time between 5PM-9PM on Friday, May 3, to support 9 local organizations that protect and care for York’s streams and rivers. Learn about the unique and collaborative efforts of these organizations to make our community a healthier place to live, work, visit, and play.
There will be a cash bar with appetizers provided. There is no cost to attend this event, but we hope it will get you excited to support the following participating organizations through Give Local York:
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Farm & Natural Lands Trust of York County
- Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education
- Lancaster Conservancy
- Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper
- Master Watershed Steward Program
- Susquehanna National Heritage Area
- Watershed Alliance of York
The party will be held in the River Room on the second floor of John Wright Restaurant. Enter the restaurant on Front Street via the ramp. Parking is available at John Wright and on side streets.
Although there is no cost to attend this event, we do ask that you RSVP through Eventbrite so we know how many people will be attending.
Special thank you to our host and presenting sponsor, John Wright Restaurant!
Click here to register for Party for the River – FREE!
Give Local York on May 2-3
This year at the Horn Farm Center, we are seeing in 20/20 vision.
Looking back over the Horn Farm Center’s 20-year history, we can’t help but look forward to what the next 20 will bring. We hope you’ll join us and help to Perennialize Horn Farm as we continue to foster love for the land and build a bright, blossoming, sustainable future.
We will always need a place where we can reconnect with the land, ourselves, and one another. Your support ensures we can make that happen at the Horn Farm.
This year, you can double your impact on May 2-3 during Give Local York with over $20,000 in matching funds – thanks to our annual sponsors and the Horn Farm Center Board of Directors.
Contributions will be matched online starting on May 2nd at 9:00pm. We will accept donations for 24 hours – until 9:00pm the next day, May 3rd, on the Horn Farm Center’s Give Local York page.
Relax, Rejuvenate & Support Horn Farm
We’d like to thank 1881 Salt Sanctuary in York for featuring us this month!
This month, 2% of all retail sales at 1881 Salt Sanctuary are going to support Horn Farm Center! Learn more about 1881 Salt Sanctuary’s services, events, gift store, and more at their website linked below.
You Make an Impact
How does supporting the Horn Farm Center make a difference? Check out our 2023 Annual Report & 20 Year Perennial Report
THANK YOU to the organizations, businesses, and individuals who supported our work and mission in 2023 and supported the Horn Farm Center through our 20+ years.