Geneva Green Market: Geneva, Illinois – A Local Food Green Farmers Market

Tour the Field’s and hear the Farmer! Garfield Farm Museum has invited Farmer Tim Fuller to give a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm lecture.  The talk will be centered around organic and CSA farming and what it means today.

• Who: Farmer Tim Fuller, of Erehwon Farm
• What: Organic Farming & Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
• When: Sunday, May 3, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
• Where: Garfield Farm Museum, 3N016 Garfield Road, LaFox, IL 60175

It will be an open forum for anyone with questions or for those just curious about this new trend in food production.  For those wishing to hear and see more, the lecture will conclude with an invitation to see the farming in action with a short tour of Mr. Fuller’s CSA fields and what steps he takes to keep his produce as organic as possible.  Tim Fuller farms his CSA farm, Erehwon Farm, on leased land from Garfield Farm Museum and sells at the Geneva Green Market; a local farmer’s market and GGM,NFP group that is devoted to education of the health-giving nature of locally grown food, sustainability and conservation of resources.

Garfield Farm Museum is located 5 miles west of Geneva, IL, off of Illinois Rt. 38 on Garfield Road. Garfield Farm is a former historically intact 1840s prairie farmstead and teamster inn that is being restored as a working 1840s farm.  There is a $6 donation for the lecture and refreshments are included.

For other lecture information or to R.S.V.P. please contact (630) 584-8485 or email at info [at] garfieldfarm [dot] org.  Seats are limited, please respond promptly.

Garfield Farm Museum
3N016 Garfield Road
LaFox, IL 60175

(630) 584-8485
www.garfieldfarm.org

Rediscover Thrift That Made America at Garfield Farm Museum’s Harvest Days

Making do and prospering are traditional values that are reflected at Garfield Farm Museum’s Harvest Days on Sunday October 5 from 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.  As the economic lifestyle of America is changing, now is the time to teach children the traditional values of thrift and saving for tomorrow. Harvest Days at Garfield Farm Museum demonstrates the basic concepts of conserving one’s resources to prepare for the future.

Harvest Days features historic household and farm skill demonstrations reflecting the economic reality of 1840s Illinois. Hard work and success went hand in hand and the flailing and winnowing of wheat is just such an example. This demonstration is just one part of the entire process of making a living on an 1840s Illinois farm. Wheat was the main cash crop and to prepare it for market, the kernels had to be knocked from the stalks, separated from the leaves or chaff before it could be bagged and sent to the grist mill or to the Chicago Port. Visitors to Harvest Days can try their hand at striking a stack of wheat with a flail, an attached stick and club, and discover how much work it took to produce enough flour for just one loaf of bread.

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