Horn Farm Happenings – May 3, 2019

Today’s the day to give where you live! Together, we can support causes across our community that will impact local kids and families, education, housing, and healthcare, our environment and economic development, the arts, history, culture and more. When we all give local, we make a huge impact. On May 3, we can all be philanthropists! Give Local York


And tomorrow is the Heirloom Plant Sale! From 9 to 3, rain or shine. We’ve been growing the plants for your garden! plant-sale

Vegetables, flowers, herbs, and more! Most plants are priced at $3. Cash, check, debit/credit cards are all welcome. Bring boxes to transport your seedlings. See you then!


If you’d love to fill your medicine cabinet and kitchen cupboards with plant based medicines, check out the Build Your Own Apothecary CSA Share offered by Sentient Sisterhood.

Each monthly share will include the following offerings:
One Household Item, for example a cleaning spray, body product or herbal candle
One Topical Medicinal, for example a joint pain rub, splinter drawing salve or itch healing balm.
One Oral Medicinal Elixir, for example Elderberry Cold & Flu Syrup, Sweet Slumber Syrup, Herbal Allergy Elixir
One Wild Food, for example a spring greens pesto, a foraged miso mushroom spread, a wild berry jam
One Medicinal Cooking Ingredient, for example a mushroom seasoning blend, Nettle & Wild Garlic Cooking oil, Wild Greens Salad Dressing

All items will come in reusable jars which can be returned for credit towards her Etsy shop! If you are interested, sign up soon as registration ends May 13!


Upcoming events:
May 3 – Give Local York
May 4 – Heirloom Plant Sale
May 5 – Little Footprints (Children’s Discovery Series)
May 11 – MAEscapes Native Plant Sale
May 19 – Healing Power of Plants (Children’s Discovery Series)
May 18 – Herbal Intensive
May 19 – Mushroom Cultivation
May 26 – Seed to Table (Children’s Discovery Series)
June 1 – Introduction to Plant Communication
June 22 – Cycle the Solstice
June 29 – Raising Insects for Food and Farm
July 18 – Where the Wild Things Grow (Youth Program)
July 23 – Introduction to Canning: Peach Jam
July 29 to 31 – Building Backyard Habitats (Junior Naturalist Training)
July 29 to 31 – Building Community Habitats (Junior Naturalist Training)
August 8 – Introduction to Canning: Tomato Sauce
August 20 – Roasted Vegetables
September 10 – Introduction to Canning: Applesauce
September 28/29 – Pawpaw Festival
October 12 – Bread: Rising to the Next Level

2019 Horn Farm Vegetable CSA
Betsy’s Flowers at the Farm Flower CSA
Hippy Homestead Gourmet Mushroom CSA
Chicken CSA through Mirror Image Farms
Rising Locust Farm Meat, Egg, Shiitake CSA
Sentient Sisterhood Wild Foods & Medicine CSA
Regenerative Farming Internship
Woodland Steward Training Program
Herbal Intensive
Foraging Intensive

See you at the farm!