Past Events
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.
Fall Culinary Series – Sobremesa
Sobremesa: (n)
1. Table talk, the ritual of gathering around food and the culture of conversation and mutual enjoyment that ensues…
2. A 2018 Fall Culinary series at Live Earth Farm in collaboration with Farm Discovery at Live Earth Farm, Bruxo, Colectivo Felix, Ritual Kitchen, State Street Honey, Kin & Kitchen.
*You can register via Airbnb Experiences or Eventbright, whichever is easiest for you!
Join us on Sunday, December 2nd at Live Earth Farm 3-6pm! Chef Diego, from Colectivo Felix and HOME will teach us how to cook Argentinian cuisine with fire! We’ll be warming up winter around a cob hearth and wood-fired oven!
Make Food with one of our favorite chefs and dine in a beautiful place where we can enjoy the seasons changing!
3-hour class is $85.00 per person. Please contact admin@farmdiscovery.org with any questions. 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)!
Diego will lead an introductory South American cooking class meant to inspire and develop an appreciation of South American food culture. We’ll be cooking with fire and embracing the warmth of winter while dining with friends!
Colectivo Felix is based out of Santa Cruz, CA and creates spontaneous, unrepeatable dining experiences in homes, restaurants, wineries, farms, barns…you name it! They can adapt to almost any space, while maintaining the Colectivo Felix philosophy. Colectivo Felix prepares local and indigenous ingredients of their surroundings while using Latin American cooking techniques and recipes researched over the years wandering the continent!
Find out more about Colectivo Felix & Chef Diego Felix here!
Harvest Festival
October 20, 2018, 10 am – 3 pm
Live Earth Farm "Lower Farm"
Celebrate the Bounty of the Pajaro Valley and the Monterey Bay Area! Join us for fall fun on the farm for the whole family. Honor the changing of the seasons and celebrate the Harvest with us on the farm.
FOOD & FARM FUN
Pumpkin Patch
Apple Picking
Cider Pressing
Pumpkin Bowling
Apple Baseball
Pumpkin Decorating
Face Painting
Tractor Rides
Visit our Pygmy Goats
Live Music
WORKSHOPS
Family Music Workshop with Musical Me
Family Yoga with Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts
Family Sing Along with Banana Slug String Band
MARKETPLACE
Sausages, salad & sides, cookies, apple pie, local beer, apple cider – hard, sparkling & fresh pressed, Farm Discovery swag & more
ZERO WASTE EVENT
Please help make this a ZERO WASTE EVENT
BYO plates & cutlery | we will have a rinsing station
The Fun
The Hosts
The Marketplace
Harvest Festival Sponsors
GUARDIAN SPONSOR
TROWEL SPONSORS
DISCOVERY SPONSORS
Your Content Goes Here
Your Content Goes HereYour Content Goes Here
Your Content Goes HereThrough the Eyes of a Farmer – Sept. 30th
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
Love Monday for Farm Discovery
April 23, 2018, 11 am – 9 pm
Discretion Brewing, 2703 41st Ave. Ste A Soquel, California
Featuring Live Music by Doug Dirt’s All Star Jammers
$1 of every pint sold will go to Farm Discovery to support hands-on farm-based education and nutrition programs for local youth.
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.
Sheep to Shawl Fair
March 24, 2018, 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.
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
Wheelbarrow Sponsors
Rake Sponsors
Trowel Sponsors
Discovery Sponsors
Other Event Sponsors
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
for
Farm Discovery
April 24, 2017, 11:30am-9pm
at
&
a $50 match on day of donations
from
sip to contribute or simply contribute
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