The Farming for Freedom Trail FREEDOM WEEKEND includes two days of celebration, shared dinner and presentations, and activities at each farm. Each farm hosts a gathering with activities and opportunities to volunteer and purchase products from the farm. Freedom Weekend participants from the community and outside Ithaca enjoy eating and drinking, touring, and making merry at each farm. Live music, arts and crafts for children, and farm workshops are provided along the way!

There will be three farm visits each on Saturday and Sunday. Visitors will meet the farmers and their farms and get their trail passport stamped as they go, eating and drinking and learning about each farm's unique history and work.

Saturday Farm Visits

NuLegacy The Center for NuLeadership
Saturday, 9:00-10:30am
Wear work clothes! Farm work party and story sharing by Chino Hardin, founder of NuLegacy
Craig & Debbie Livermore
Saturday, 11:00am-1:15pm
Nature walks on 3 miles of trails, and a workshop on land and ancestral connection.
Music by DJ Redneck and food by Specials Farm-to-Table Food Truck: plant-based pies!
Pete & Christa Núñez
Saturday, 2:00-4:00pm
George Washington Carver Gardens Event
Saturday, 5:00p-12:00am
Visioning workshop, dinner, presentations, and dance party with DJ Mike

Sunday Farm Visits

Chaw Chang & Lucy Garrison
Sunday, 10:00-11:00am
Tour of their organic farm:
"Our crops include a wide variety of greens, tomatoes, root vegetables, alliums, strawberries and more! We also grow many specialty Asian vegetables including fall greens and roots."
Sarah Gotowka
Sunday, 11:15am-1:00pm
Hands-on botanical printing experience on silk scarves to take home
Juliana Quaresma
Sunday, 1:15-3:00pm
Needle felting demonstration and Icelandic sheep visit

Where To Pick Up Tickets

Visit Sustainable Passion in downtown Ithaca this Friday afternoon or Saturday morning to pick up your tickets, trail passports, and swag:

Friday October 4th, 4:00-7:00pm

Saturday October 5th, 8:30am-12:00pm

Sustainable Passion

311 N Meadow St, Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 280-5950

Farm addresses will be provided in the trail passport

Schedule

Saturday October 5th

9:00a-4:00p — Farm visits and on-site activities

9:00-10:30a — NuLegacy The People’s Land

Farm work party and story sharing by Chino Hardin, founder of NuLegacy *wear work clothes!*

11:00a-1:15p — Loving Farms

Nature walks on 3 miles of trails, and a workshop on land and ancestral connection. Music by DJ dRedneck and food by Specials Farm-to-Table Food Truck with plant-based pies. *wear layers and boots or at least semi-waterproof shoes*

2:00-4:00p — The Learning Farm George Washington Carver Gardens Event

Sweet potato dig, pie and international food sampling. Free goodie bag with cookbook.

5:00-6:30p — Welcome & Community Land Stewardship Visioning Workshop at the Learning Farm

“Everyone will get a copy of the new Land Stewards’ Community Land Visioning workbook. We will work on it together over the next year to create a vision of community land sharing. We'll complete the first page together that evening.”

6:30-7:30p: Dinner and Presentations at the Learning Farm

Speakers and facilitators: Stephen Henhawk, Michelle Seneca, Christine Barksdale, Karen Yearwood, Jason Corwin, Jakara Zellner, Taili Mugambee, Mike Bishop, Chino Hardin, Don & Rita Barber, Davi Mozie, Damali Wynter, Sam Cook, Christa Nunez, Gladys Brangman, Gloria Coicou

7:30p-12:00a: Dance Party at the Learning Farm with DJ Mike! Old school funk, soul, r&b from one of Ithaca’s deepest selectors

Sunday October 6th

10:00a-3:00p — Farm visits and on-site activities

10:00-11:00a — Stick & Stone Farm

Tour of their organic farm: "Our crops include a wide variety of greens, tomatoes, root vegetables, alliums, strawberries and more! We also grow many specialty Asian vegetables including fall greens and roots."

11:15am-1:00p — Luna Fiber Studio

Dye farm tour and hands-on botanical printing experience. Participants will create and take home their own natural-dyed silk scarf!

1:15-3:00p — Viva Acres

Needle felting demonstration and Icelandic sheep visit