The arrival of the summer season is cause for celebration!
The Horn Farm’s Summer Solstice Market is the newest annual event at our farm – a celebration to mark the longest day of the year, hold gratitude for local abundance, spend time in community, and uplift other regional growers and makers that are as dedicated to the land as they are their craft.
Join us for a fun, festive, and free community gathering at the Horn Farm, complete with a farmers market, educational tours, and more!
Saturday, June 21st, 2025 | 10AM to 2PM
Highlights for this Year’s Market:
- Seasonal, organically-grown annual and perennial food crops and vegetables grown by our 2025 Regenerative Grower Training Program cohort.
- Annual and perennial plants and starts for sale.
- Local, sustainability-minded business vendors.
- Free tours to check out what’s happening at Horn Farm.
- Fun, educational youth activities.
- BYO picnic space to hang out, socialize, and enjoy community.
Local Vendors:
Besides featuring seasonal produce grown by the hands of Horn Farm staff and program participants, the Summer Solstice Market will also feature offerings from local / regional farmers and producers, all contributing their bounty to the abundance! 2025 vendors to date include:
Interested in becoming a vendor at this year’s Summer Solstice Market? Send our event coordinator an email at t.shertzer@hornfarmcenter.org for more details!
Land-Based Education:
During the event, join our experienced and passionate staff for free walking tours of the Horn Farm. You’ll get to see our work in action: how we steward the land while inspiring our communitiy with ways to live closer to the earth.
The Horn Farm brings together small-scale agriculture and ecological restoration. Demonstration spaces across our landscape show how we can work with nature for shared benefit: growing abundant food and material needs locally while restoring the wellbeing of the ecosystems we depend on. We’re currently growing as a hub for Agroforestry: farming that incorporates trees and shrubs alongside other crops to benefit nature and people together.
Tour stops will include:
- Rapid-growth mini forests.
- Multifunctional riparian buffers (including elderberries, basketry willows, American hazelnuts, and more.
- Young forest gardens.
- Annual and perennial demonstration gardens.
- Native pollinator gardens.
- Recovering wild spaces with edible and medicinal plants.
- The Horn Farm’s historic facilities: our 19th century farmhouse, summer kitchen, and barns.
