The Fall Harvest Festival will take place on September 30 from 11 am – 5 pm at the UCSC Farm, with a full slate of music, food, tours, kids’ activities, cooking demos, apple tasting, and much more! The festival is free for UCSC students, Friends of the Farm and Garden members, and kids 12 and under; $5 general admission. See below for the full schedule of events.

If your campus or community group is interested in tabling at this popular event, please fill out the Tabling Registration Form. If you’d like to volunteer, please fill out the Volunteer Registration Form. Additional details and contact information are on the forms.

We look forward to seeing you at the Harvest Festival!

Fall Harvest Festival 2012 Schedule

MAIN STAGE – MUSIC

The Ashley Lloyd Experience, 11:00 – 12:00

Ancestree Reggae, 12:15 – 1:30

Bean Creek, 1:45 – 3:00

Singing Wood Marimba, 3:15 – 5:00

WORKSHOPS AND ACTIVITIES

Apple Variety Tasting, 11:30 – 4:30

Apple Pie Contest Bake-Off (entry deadline), 12:30

Kombucha Making, 12:00 – 1:00
Johnny Wilson, CASFS Farm & Garden Apprentice

Farm Tours, 12:30 and 4:30
Led by Jarid Kroes & Victoria Salas, Food Systems Working Group

Grubbin’ it Raw Vegan Style: Wraps & Collard Green Burritos, 1:15 – 2:15  
Megan Laird, Food Systems Working Group

Herb Talk & Walk through the Garden, 2:00 – 3:00
Darren Huckle, Western/Chinese herbalist & licensed acupuncturist

Seed Stewardship: The Art of Cultivating, Breeding & Saving Locally Adapted
& Open-Pollinated Seeds, 2:30-3:30
Elan Goldbart, Food Systems Working Group

Coffee Cupping for the Perfect Cup, 3:30 – 4:00
Community Agroecology Network (CAN)

Fall Garden Workshop, 3:45 – 4:45
Trish Hildinger, Trish’s Garden

Plus hay rides, kids’ crafts and treasure hunt, climbing wall, face paint- ing, food and organic produce sales, fresh-squeezed apple juice, goats and chickens, “Food, What?!” Teen Farm fundraiser, and much more!