2010 EVENTS
This year we will continue our regular events, as well as add a few new ones. In addition, after numerous recommendations from customers, we have added seminars taught by experts from our area.
Opening Day: Thursday April 29th
May 8th-9th: Mother's Day Weekend/Horticultural Workshop:
May 8th 10:30 AM: Horticultural Workshop
Speaker: Jim Beard, Horticulture Program, Fox Valley Technical College
Discussion: Waking Up Your Garden
Jim will discuss:
Building your own rain barrel (barrels for sale on site)
Composting and compost tea
Building and maintaining your own worm beds
Answers to all your gardening questions
May 8th & 9th: Mother's Day Weekend
Let us help you get the perfect gift for mom!
Gift Ideas:
For Kids: During Mother’s Day we’ll have a plant to pot and decorate to give to mom!
Gift Baskets: Begonia and Fuchsia baskets are nice! Fuchsias look great but remember they are sensitive to direct sun light and require daily watering.
Gift Certificates
Free flowering plant for each lady coming to the market!
Saturday May 22nd 10:30 AM Containers 101
Speaker: Tonja Hildebrandt, Turners Fresh Market Greenhouse Lead Designer
Discussion: Containers 101
Get ready to create your own container garden. Tonja will share her expertise on:
Why have a container garden
Container selection
Sun and shade gardens
Color harmony
Thrillers, fillers, and spillers
Care and nuture your container garden
June 5th Cooking with Herbs & Come Garden With Us: 9:00 AM Gardening and Cooking With Herbs
Speaker: Bonni Miller, Cook and Owner of Chez Marche Cafe
Bonni will provide you with information on how people can grow and use all the herbs now available, as well as answers any questions you may have. She will cover:
Picking the right place for an herb garden
Growing herbs
Cooking with herbs
Making your own herbal teas
Using herbs in other ways, such as medicinal and insect repellants.
1:00 PM Come Garden With Us
Speaker: Trixia Grant, Operations Coordinator
Kids, our annual planting event continues! This is your chance to go to the field and plant your own pumpkin plant. Return during the growing season to check on the plant and then come harvest a pumpkin in October! Please let us know you are coming!
June 18th-20th: Waupaca's Strawberry Fest & Turner's Strawberry Days
June 19th-20th 8 AM - 5 PM Strawberry Days' Activities At Turners: Pick-your-own strawberries, kids pictures taken with their berry smile, photo contest, and chocolate covered berries.
June 20th Happy Fathers Day! We'll have a special strawberry treat for dad!
Speaker: Henry's Honey & The American Honey Princess
Join us in welcoming the 2010 American Honey Princess in a day celebrating honey and bees. Activities will include: cooking demonstrations, uses of honey, importance of honey bees, coloring contest for kids, and other fun activities!
Speaker: Marilyn Herman, Waupaca County Extension
Learn how to keep all these beautiful fruits and veggies for winter eating! Marilyn will discuss and demonstrate:
- Keeping nutritional value
- Special dietary needs
- Baby food
- The fun of dehydrated snacks
- How to use the food after it has been canned, frozen, or dehydrated
Following the demonstration, Marilyn will safety test your canner, so bring it along!
August 21st & 22nd Watermelon Weekend
Come out to the farm and taste our different varities of melons including: Packer Melons: Green on the outside, gold on the inside, seeded
Sangria: Old standard favorite, seeded
Cannonball/Imagination: Black on the outside, deep red on the inside. Distinctive flavor. Favorite seedless variety.
Millionaire: dense flesh, sweet!, Seedless.
Green & Gold: neat flavor, new hybrid, seedless packer melon
While you're out at the farm, also taste our Eclipse cantaloupe!
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September 4th Salsa Weekend & Corn Maze Opens
Salsa, Salsa, Salsa
Join us as we teach you how to make your own salsa from all those wonderful garden ingredients! Lots of tasting!
September 18th & 19th: Corn Fest & Tasting Weekend
Come out and get your last taste of this season's corn! There will also be a sampling of our best Amish products and salsas.
October 2nd 9:30 AM Cooking With Squash and Pumpkin
Speaker: Marilyn Herman, Waupaca County Extension
Everything you ever wanted to know about squash and pumpkin:
- Kinds and varieties
- Best uses for each variety
- Retaining nutritional value
- How to freeze, can, dehydrate
- Using later
- Making pumpkin or squash leather
October - Fall Colors:
CORN MAZE: Starts Saturday September 4th
PUMPKIN CANNON: Weekend of October 9th
EVERY WEEKEND: Kids Games, Pumpkin Picking, Hay Rides, Corn Maze, Apple Cider, Caramel Apples, Pumpkin Rides, Pumpkin Canon, School Tours, Group Parties