Past Events
Saturday, June 29, 1pm-5pm – Vegan French Baking & Wine Pairing Class: Sweet and Savory Tarts & Galettes
June 29th 1-5pm at Farm Discovery at Live Earth Farm
Join Chef Ellie of Lavender Design + Cuisine at Farm Discovery for a delicious journey to Provence, France! In this delicious hands-on vegan baking class (dairy & egg-free, but not gluten/nut-free), you’ll make:
1. Strawberry Lavender Tart w/ Crushed Pistachios
2. Summer Vegetables Tart w/ Herbes de Provence
3. Plum Almond Orange Lavender Galette
4. Heirloom Cherry Tomato Galette w/ Basil-Lemon-Pistachio Pesto
5. Baby Greens, Fennel, Orange & Radish Salad with a delightful citrus-herb dressing composed of extra virgin olive oil, Meyer lemon, orange juice & rind and fresh herbs.
You’ll enjoy your artisanal culinary creations with McBride Sisters’ delicious wine, the Truvee Red Blend Central Coast 2013 and organic French dark roast coffee.
All students in this class will enjoy a delightful tour of the Farm Discovery at Live Earth’s beautiful organic garden before the start of the class. They’ll also enjoy purchasing fresh organic produce such as berries, summer veggies, herbs and flowers available for sale in the class.
Class fee is $175.00 and includes a bottle of the Truvee Red Blend Central Coast 2013 and a small bag of organic culinary lavender. Class runs for 4 hours and is limited to 10 students to ensure the most spectacular experience for all. Since, space is limited, early registration is highly encouraged.
Farm Yoga
Join us on the farm to taste what spring has to offer for a tour & yoga class in May 4, 2019 10am-12:00pm. We will walk around the farm smelling the flowers, visiting hives and farm animals and harvesting delicious treats and fruit and vegetables to take home. Amber Battles will lead an outdoor class in a beautiful location on the farm.
A little about Amber;
Amber Battles is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance. Having completed 200 hours with Hot Yoga Aptos and an additional 100 hour advanced training with Hannah Muse working towards completing 500 hrs by spring 2019.
Amber believes yoga to be a sacred practice, a discipline that acts as a remembrance and an unraveling of our true nature that tends to get buried by our busy lives. It is the cultivating of awareness, presence and consciousness through pranayama, meditation and asana.
1.5 hours of yoga and 30 minute farm tour. $30 per person. Refreshments provided.
Love Monday for Farm Discovery
April 8, 2019, 11 am – 9 pm
Discretion Brewing, 2703 41st Ave. Ste A Soquel, California
$1 of every pint sold will go to Farm Discovery to support hands-on farm-based environmental education & nutrition programs for local youth.
Al Ollero Pop-up Dinner & Clay Cookware Sale
March 22, 6:30-8:30pm at Farm Discovery at Live Earth Farm
Orion Langdon will be bringing his micaceous clay cookware from Northern New Mexico for a special sale & show! Kin & Kitchen will craft a seasonal meal using clay cookware and serve us a feast on the farm followed by the pottery sale.
Orion makes hand coiled cooking vessels and cups from clay harvested in the wild, generous mountains of his current home. Orion’s work is one of many iterations of the ever evolving, centuries old tradition of pottery making in New Mexico. Micaceous clay cooking pots are beautiful, durable, hold heat well and can be used in the oven or directly on the stove-top. Orion will be showing his work, answering questions about this clay body, serving food cooked in micaceous pots and making his wares available for sale.
3-hour event is $85.00 per person.
We are also looking for volunteers, who would like to participate in the event and help us with the logistics of putting it on (you can attend for free)!
Sheep to Shawl Fiber & Makers Faire
March 16, 2019, 10 am – 2 pm
Live Earth Farm "Lower Barn" 1275 Green Valley Road
RAIN OR SHINE
Bring the family to participate in the process of bringing wool from the sheep to the shawl, including every step in between.
Experts, local businesses and organizations will guide us through all of the hands-on steps to turn sheep’s wool into clothing, toys and accessories.
ZERO WASTE EVENT
Please help make this a ZERO WASTE EVENT
BYO plates & cutlery | we will have a rinsing station
The Fiber Crafting
Shearing
Scouring (washing)
Carding (combing)
Dyeing
Spinning
Needle & Wet Felting
Knitting, Crocheting, & Weaving
Lamb Petting Pen with Garden Variety Cheese
The Fun
The Prizes
The Hosts
The Marketplace
“I brought my youngest child to the farm for Sheep to Shawl last weekend and we both absolutely loved it! What a well-organized, educational, tasty (I think we had some of everything that was for sale!), and fun event. My son’s assortment of pieces of wool he worked on is a special treasure to him now.” – Sheep to Shawl Fair Attendee 2014
Want to know a little more? Check out our Discover This! blog post.
Or read about it in the news.
Sheep to Shawl Fair Sponsors
Stewardship Sponsors
Earth Sponsors
Fire Sponsors
Discovery Sponsors
Other Event Sponsors
Vegetable Fermentation Workshop
Sunday, February 17th
10:30am-1:30pm
at Live Earth Farm
Harvest, create, and taste spring bounty on our organic family farm in Watsonville, CA!
Jessica Tunis, practiced pickler, fermenter, teacher, and writer for the popular local food blog, will lead us in creating delicious concoctions with seasonal herbs and spices to bring out the flavors of our winter produce!
Learn to create your own delicious probiotic vegetable ferments from seasonal produce, grown right here on the farm. From brine fermented carrots to sauerkraut and beyond, all the basics of vegetable fermentation will be covered!
3-hour class is $85.00 per person.
We are also looking for volunteers, who would like to participate in the workshop and help us with the logistics of putting it on (you can attend for free)!
*You can register via Airbnb Experiences or Eventbright, whichever is easiest for you!
Monthly Farm Tour & Activity
Upcoming Dates
Sat. January 27th & Sun. 28th
Sat. February 23th & Sun. 24th
Sun. March 31th
Sat. April 27th & Sun. 28th
What We’ll Do
Holiday Party
December 13, 2018, 6 pm – 8 pm
Pour Taproom 110 Cooper St. Suite 100 B
Pour Taproom will host Farm Discovery’s Holiday Party a % of sales will go to Farm Discovery to support hands-on farm-based education and nutrition programs for local youth.
Sow & Grow
Support the transformation of kids’ relationships to food, their empowerment to become engaged citizens in our community, and the building of skills to steward the natural world.
A multi-course dinner in the fields with a view of the Pajaro Valley featuring the best local, seasonal food, wine, live music, silent & live auction, and great company!
Buy Tickets Here
Appetizer Course
Main Course
Dessert Course
Music by Steelehousestringband
The Artisans
The Auction Donors
Soquel Vineyards, Gilroy Gardens, Pacific Edge Climbing Gym, Manuel’s Mexican Restaurant, Luma Yoga, Gayles Bakery & Rosticceria, Revival Ice Cream, Sanderlings Restaurant, Costanoa Lodge, Shadowbrook, Disneyland, Costanoa Lodge & Spa, Savannah Chanelle Vineyards, Rocky’s Fitness Center, Pacific Repertory Theatre, Segway Santa cruz Tours, O’Neill Yacht Charters, Hiller Aviation Museum, Dancenter, Kayak Connection, Seymour Discovery Center, Well Within Spa, River Run Vintners, Cafe Sparrow, Lula’s Chocolates, Carmel Food Tours, City Lights Theatre Company, Jelli Beanz, Pizza My Heart, Twins Kitchen, Artisans Gallery, Way of Life.
SOW & GROW SPONSORS
Wheelbarrow Sponsors
Hula Hoe Sponsors
Trowel Sponsors
Broad Fork Sponsors
Discovery Sponsors
ANNUAL CAMPAIGN SPONSORS
Guardian Sponsors
Trowel Sponsors
Discovery Sponsors
Blackberry & Dry-Farmed Tomato U-pick September 1st (Date Changed!)
Join us for a Family-friendly U-pick put on by Live Earth farm! Farm Discovery will be serving cold drinks and cocktails as refreshments! All proceeds go to supporting educational programs held on the farm. After picking some of the season’s bounty sit back and enjoy being on the farm, playing in the hay-bale fort and sipping the sweetness of summer.
Pick berries for $5.00/lb and dry farmed tomatoes for $2.50/lb ($2/lb over 10lbs)
Berry Mimosas & Chevelas available for $7.00/ cocktail ($6.00 if you bring your own jar!)
For more info email: admin@farmdiscovery.org
Thank you Thursday
April 12, 2018, 11 am – 10 pm
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, 402 Ingalls St, Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing will host Thank you Thursday for Farm Discovery on their great, Westside, dog-friendly patio. $1 of every pint sold will go to Farm Discovery to support hands-on farm-based education and nutrition programs for local youth.
Pollinate!
September 23, 2017, 4 pm – 8 pm
Live Earth Farm 172 Litchfield Lane
Support the transformation of kids’ relationships to food, their empowerment to become engaged citizens in our community, and the building of skills to steward the natural world.
A multi-course dinner in the fields with a view of the Pajaro Valley featuring an appetizer hour by Assembly, the best local, seasonal food, wine, live music, silent & live auction, and great company!
Buy Tickets Here
Appetizer Course
Co-founder, Chef Kendra Baker
Main Course
Nick Church, Executive Chef at Chaminade
Dessert Course
Music by
The Lampel Brothers
The Banana Slug String Band
MoSo
The Artisans
The Auction Donors
Outstanding in the Fields, Santa Cruz Bee Company, Mountain Feed & Farm Supply, Cost Plus World Market, Roaring Camp Railroads, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Numi Organic Tea, Soquel Vineyards, Philz Coffee, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sun Basket, Greenspace, Gilroy Gardens, Pacific Edge Climbing Gym, Chabot Space Center, Jack’s Restaurant Monterey, Manuel’s Mexican Restaurant, Tea House Spa, Santa Cruz Warriors, Luma Yoga, Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, Gayles Bakery & Rosticceria, Children’s Creativity Museum, Cooper-Garrod Vineyard, Hey Honey! Artisanals, Revival Ice Cream, Bargetto Winery, Testarossa, Sanderlings Restaurant, Lula’s Chocolate, Annieglass, Verve Coffee Roasters, Santa Cruz Symphony, Costanoa Lodge, Chaminade Resort & Spa, Shadowbrook, Disneyland, Sand Rock Farm, Bee Happy, Cima Collina, Heller Estate, Highway 1 Brewing, Soif, Equinox, Landmark Theaters, Way of Life
Annual Campaign Sponsors
Hummingbird Sponsors
Bat Sponsors
Butterfly Sponsors
Moth Sponsors
Discovery Sponsors
Pollinate Sponsors
Queen Bee Sponsors
Bat Sponsors
Butterfly Sponsors
Moth Sponsors
Discovery Sponsors
Love Monday at Discretion Brewing
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April 24, 2017, 11:30am-9pm
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Farm to Sea: The 2016 Fall Feast in the Fields Benefit
September 24, 2016, 4 pm – 8 pm
“Upper Farm” 172 Litchfield Lane
Support the transformation of kids’ relationships to food, their empowerment to become engaged citizens in our community, and the building of skills to steward the natural world.
A multi-course dinner in the fields with a view of the Pajaro Valley featuring the best local, seasonal food, wine, live music, silent & live auction, and great company!
Photos of last year’s Feast in the Fields, A to Zucchini
A farm fresh, wine paring gourmet, multi-course meal featuring sustainable Monterey Bay area farms and vintners. Partake in farm fresh fare while together, we build the future of healthy children, farms and communities.
Chef Andrea Mollenauer, Lifestyle Culinary Arts
Artisans
Farm to Sea Sponsors
River Sponsors
Slough Sponsors
Estuary Sponsors