The 2014 Piedmont Farm Tour

2014 Piedmont Farm Tour

Come learn about the Triangle’s local and organic farm & food scene. Meet local farmers & tour their farms!
View our Google Interactive Map for a list of the exceptional farms on the tour this year – with driving directions!
Download a PDF of the Farm Tour Brochure - Farm tour maps, directions and descriptions of all the fun things to do at each farm!

Demonstrations and Environmental Education at 2014 Piedmont Earth Day Fair in Winston-Salem

Demonstrations and Environmental Education

9th annual Piedmont Earth Day Fair will be held Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.  The following in-depth, hands-on demonstrations and discussions will be offered under the Gazebo at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds.

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

How to Step Lightly and Reduce Your Impact

Rita Gale Cruise, Winston-Salem Sustainability Resource Center
Having a simple, more sustainable lifestyle does not mean making drastic changes to your everyday routine. You'll be surprised by how much the little things in life can make a significant difference to the environment. From your workplace to your home, learn a few simple things you can do to have a more sustainable way of living and reduce your impact on this beautiful earth. Also learn of some resources available locally.

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

Attracting Pollinators

David Bare, Winston-Salem Journal and Reynolda Gardens
Invite fascinating and colorful winged friends to visit your backyard. Learn what plants attract pollinators like bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, as well as how to cultivate and care for these plants.

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Protecting Pollinators

Steve Taylor, North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services
Pollinators are essential to our food chain and plant production. Learn how to read a product label, check out the new EPA labels protecting bees, and learn ways to reduce your impact on pollinators.

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm 

Personal Choices and Clean Air

Lorelei Elkins, Triad Air Awareness
Join us as we follow a typical Triad resident through a normal day, from the moment we get out of bed to when we snuggle back under those covers at night.  During this demo, we'll discover how even the most common things we do each day can have an impact on the environment, and learn the simple solutions to many of our environmental issues.

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

So Can I Recycle This or Not?

John Stoltz, Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection
Find out what you can and can't recycle, and where to bring those "odd" things, so they don't end up in the landfill.

Demonstrations are coordinated by Program Partner:

2014 Piedmont Earth Day Fair in Winston-Salem, NC

The 9th annual Piedmont Earth Day Fair will be held Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds from 10am – 5pm. Founded by PEA, the Piedmont Earth Day Fair is the largest Earth Day celebration and environmental education event in the Piedmont Triad, drawing crowds of 8,000+. This year's Fair promises to have something for everyone -- from interactive children's activities and hands-on environmental demonstrations to delicious organic food from local restaurants and food trucks and live entertainment throughout the day.  You don't want to miss this opportunity to Spring into Sustainability, and be inspired to make changes in your life that protect and restore the environment.

10:00 am	Piedmont Earth Day Fair Opens to Public
10:45 am	Opening Ceremony featuring Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines
11:00 am	After Jack Performs
12:00 pm	Aerial Dance Performance by Caroline Calouche and Company
12:00 pm	How to Step Lightly and Reduce Your Impact - Demo
12:30 pm	Attracting Pollinators - Demo
1:00 pm	Doug Davis and the Solid Citizens Performs
2:00 pm	Aerial Dance Performance by Caroline Calouche and Company
2:00 pm	Protecting Pollinators - Demo
2:30 pm	Personal Choices and Clean Air - Demo
3:00 pm	So Can I Recycle This or Not? - Demo
3:30 pm	doby Performs
5:00 pm	Piedmont Earth Day Fair Closes

Gardening Workshops in Winston-Salem, NC

Vegetable Gardening

When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 12:30pm - 3:30pm

Location: Forsyth County Cooperative Extension
1450 Fairchild Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105
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Registration requested: Contact Kitrinka Gordon with the Forsyth Cooperative Extension office to register for this lecture. Phone: 336-703-2850 or email gordonkl@forsyth.cc

Cost: Free

Speaker: Scott Welborn, Forsyth Extension Agent, Horticulture
Description: Vegetables are never better than when they are home grown! Join our new horticulture agent, Scott Welborn and discover how to start your first vegetable garden. Discussion will include finding the right location, how to take a soil test, improving your soil and which are the easiest vegetables to begin with.

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Community Gardening 101

When: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Location: Forsyth County Cooperative Extension
1450 Fairchild Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105

Registration requested: Contact Kitrinka Gordon with the Forsyth Cooperative Extension office to register for this lecture. Phone: 336-703-2850 or email gordonkl@forsyth.cc

Cost: Free

Speaker: Alison Duncan, Community Garden Coordinator

Description: Have you ever considered participating in a community garden? Are you interested in starting one in your community, but you don’t know where to begin? Come learn the basics of starting a community garden in this class. We will cover the organizational, procedural, and horticultural information that you’ll need to know in order to start a successful community garden.

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Composting in The Garden Workshop

When: Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: Forsyth County Cooperative Extension
1450 Fairchild Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105

Registration required: Contact Kitrinka Gordon with the Forsyth Cooperative Extension office to register for this lecture. Phone: 336-703-2850 or email gordonkl@forsyth.cc

Speaker: Wendi Hartup, Natural Resources Agent

Description: Composting is a great way to recycle organic waste (leaves, spent flowers, grass clippings, etc.) generated in our landscapes and gardens. We will discuss easy ways to start composting in your own backyard, what should and shouldn't be composted, and how to use this treasure in your garden. There will be a drawing for free Earth Machine Compost Bin.

Cost: Free

Workshop sponsored by the Piedmont Triad Water Quality Partnership

Kickstarter Campaign for Goat Playset & Storybook

Kickstarter Campaign: Are You Kidding? A Goat Playset and Storybook about Birth

This unique project will only be funded if the goal is met by the deadline.

Are You Kidding? is a toy and storybook designed to gently introduce children to the wonder of (goat) birth through play.

 

Kids you love will love playing with Margo the Momma goat and her two kids playset, and reading about the excitement on the farm when the animals discover Margo is kidding.  

 

Margo, the toy goat, gives birth to her two kids the same way Margo the real goat did. This gentle, authentic birth process helps children learn the real facts of life as they’re having fun helping Margo with her kidding. Helping Margo kid encourages pretend play and stimulates children's imaginations. 

 

 

 

The storybook, Are You Kidding?, is a 37-page easy reader completely illustrated by six-year old Vivi, who was the inspiration for the toy. Vivi won last year’s PBS Kids Go! national book contest, so young readers are in for a real treat. The book includes an introduction to dairy goats for young readers.

 

Garden Workshop: Charlie's Revolutionary Garden

Garden Workshop: Charlie's Revolutionary Garden
Thursday, April 3, 2014
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Frank L. Horton Museum Center
(924 S. Main Street)

Presented by Charles Headington, PhD, Author and Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Home gardening can be revolutionary! With just 1/6 acre, low maintenance, and little cost, you can grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs and even capture rain water in inexpensive carpet ponds stocked with Tilapia. Learn how to create an edible landscape that entices the senses and invites exploration.

This lunch time workshop will last about one hour. Attendees may bring a lunch; beverages provided.

A free workshop hosted by Old Salem Horticulture.

For more information or to pre-register for any workshop, please email vhannah@oldsalem.org or call 336-721-7357 and leave a message with name, number attending, workshop title, and your contact information.

Support the work of Old Salem Horticulture through your membership in the Friends of the Gardens.

BeNutty Bakes & Butters @ Farm Store on March 22, 2014

BeNutty Bakes & Butters will be at joining us on Saturday, March 22, from 10-2! Customers will have an opportunity to sample and learn more about their variety of products. Jen's peanut butters are already available for purchase in our Farm Store.

BeNutty Bakes & Butters of Winston-Salem creates gourmet small batch peanut butters using North Carolina peanuts and drool-worthy baked goods. In addition to the peanut butters, BeNutty’s will also have freshly baked cookies, breads and Baker Jen's famous banana pudding in single serving containers.

Our farm, Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, is located on the Forsyth/Stokes County line, near the intersection of Hwy 65 and Hwy 8 (Germanton Rd)--6 miles from Winston-Salem. Our Farm Store is open daily 9-6 Monday-Saturday and 1-6 on Sundays year round. We are handicap accessible.

In our Farm Store, we sell our aged raw milk goat cheese, brined and marinated feta, plain and flavored Farmers Cheese and plain and flavored chevres, farm-fresh eggs, farmstead meats (beef, lamb and chicken) and handmade goat's milk soap. We also sell local North Carolina handmade gifts and local country ham, jams, jellies, honey, ketchup, canned foods, dried herbs, etc. Farm and goat gifts are available also - toys, necklaces, ornaments, tote bags, windchimes, candles and more! Like goat's milk in something other than cheese? We also have soap, shampoo bars, facial bars, lotions and laundry detergent all made with goat's milk too.

Hope to see you the 22nd if not before! Remember to support other small businesses in your area all year long!

Visit our website to learn more about our farm and what is available in the Farm Store!

http://www.buffalocreekfarmandcreamery.com/

Good Food Growers Market Opens In Kernersville

Good Food Growers Market opens TODAY in Kernersville!

Good Food Growers Market is local, sustainable food market PLUS a backyard growers supply store PLUS a teaching farm PLUS an urban farm in Kernersville, NC.  They are passionate about making good food accessible to everyone - whether they grow it, a partner farm grows it or you grow it. They give you everything you need along they way, from supplies to step-by-step help!

You'll find Buffalo Creek Farm & Creamery's farmstead goat cheese there too!

Good Food Growers Market
1910 Highway 66 South
Kernersville, NC
336-904-0597
https://www.facebook.com/goodfoodgrowersmarket
 

 

The Greensboro Children's Museum's Springtime Sprouts

Kids, join in the fun at the Greensboro Children’s Museum's Edible Schoolyard garden as winter turns to spring! In this hands-on afterschool program, kids will explore The Edible Schoolyard together, playing and learning along the way.

Ages 5-9 years (drop-off program) – Thursdays, 3:30pm-5pm

Members Price $8 (buy all 4 for $32) – Non-Member Price $12 (buy all 4 for $36)

REGISTER ONLINE: www.ESYgreensboro.com

Garden Workshop: NC Pottery - Use it Every Day!

 

Garden Workshop: NC Pottery - Use it Every Day!

Saturday, March 22, 2014

10:00am - 11:00am

Single Brothers' Workshop

(10 W. Academy Street)Presented by Debbie Sells, Potter and Co-owner, Homeplace Pottery, Kernersville, NC

 

Made from North Carolina clay, this traditional pottery is created for everyday use in the kitchen – learn about the creative process. One example, the “Yummy Pot,” can be used by cooks of all ages to make a chocolate cake in less than five minutes.

 

A free workshop hosted by Old Salem Horticulture.

  

For more information or to pre-register for any workshop, please email vhannah@oldsalem.org or call 336-721-7357 and leave a message with name, number attending, workshop title, and your contact information. 

 

Support the work of Old Salem Horticulture through your membership in the Friends of the Gardens.

Fogwood Food & Running Pine Herb Farm @ Farm Store

Fogwood Food and Running Pine Herb Farm will be at joining us on Saturday, April 19, from 10-2! Customers will have an opportunity to sample and learn more about their variety of products, some of which are already available for purchase in our Farm Store.





Fogwood Food (Reidsville, NC) grows Shiitake mushrooms, blueberries, and other various produce items in small quantities to sell. Their value-added products include small batch specialty jams, jellies, syrups and dehydrated veggies.





Running Pine Herb Farm (Reidsville, NC) primarily grows herb plants. Their value-added products include flavored vinegars, jams, jellies and packaged dried herbs and dried herb blends. They will have herb plants available for purchase too!

Our farm, Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery, is located on the Forsyth/Stokes County line, near the intersection of Hwy 65 and Hwy 8 (Germanton Rd)--6 miles from Winston-Salem. Our Farm Store is open daily 9-6 Monday-Saturday and 1-6 on Sundays year round. We are handicap accessible.

In our Farm Store, we sell our aged raw milk goat cheese, brined and marinated feta, plain and flavored Farmers Cheese and plain and flavored chevres, farm-fresh eggs, farmstead meats (beef, lamb and chicken) and handmade goat's milk soap. We also sell local North Carolina handmade gifts and local country ham, jams, jellies, honey, ketchup, canned foods, dried herbs, etc. Farm and goat gifts are available also - toys, necklaces, ornaments, tote bags, windchimes, candles and more! Like goat's milk in something other than cheese? We also have soap, shampoo bars, facial bars, lotions and laundry detergent all made with goat's milk too.

Hope to see you the 19th if not before! Remember to support other small businesses in your area all year long!

Visit our website to learn more about our farm and what is available in the Farm Store!

http://www.buffalocreekfarmandcreamery.com/

Garden Workshop: Goat Dairy Products

Garden Workshop: Goat Dairy Products

Thursday, March 27, 2014

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Frank L. Horton Museum Center

(924 S. Main Street)

Presented by Johnny Blakley, Owner and Cheesemaker at Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery,
Germanton, NC

**Goat cheese and goat milk soap will be available for purchase following the workshop.**

Learn the ins and outs of making cheese in a goat dairy. Watch how goat cheese is made and learn about the many uses for goat’s milk. Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery will share goat cheese samples made from the milk of their Nubian does.

   

This lunch time workshop will last about one hour. Attendees may bring a lunch; beverages provided.

 

A free workshop hosted by Old Salem Horticulture.

  

For more information or to pre-register for any workshop, please email vhannah@oldsalem.org or call 336-721-7357 and leave a message with name, number attending, workshop title, and your contact information.

Support the work of Old Salem Horticulture through your membership in the Friends of the Gardens.