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2011 Harvest Festival Fun

10/14/2011

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Fall on the farm is a magical time.  The last summer tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are barely hanging on to squeeze the last drop of nutrients from their drying stems. Pumpkins and corn beg to be harvested before frost set in.

Napa cabbage, carrot, Jerusalem artichokes and turnips brave the cold in the field and plump themselves up before they are dug and stored in the ground root cellar.

The animals seem to feel the winter coming and some always find a way to sneak into the greenhouses to stock up on extra greens for the long winter.  Chickens will fly over their fences to eat the tender napa cabbage hearts.  Piglets will finagle their way out of the electric fence to steal spinach and just about anything.

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Bees hover over the fall chrysanthemums  before their winter hibernation.  A slight gust of wind will rain down crisp golden leaves. Morning dew keeps the ground moist and farm glistening in the morning hours.

It is this backdrop, that we held our 2011 Sixth Annual Green Cow Harvest Festival.

After six years of luck with dry weather, we decided to play it safe and set a rain date.  Most Beijing farmers will tell you that it doesn’t rain much during this season.   And when it does, it is quick and light–almost like Seattle rain.

The forecast had predicted rain for the five days leading up to the fest.  But it never rained.  On the morning of the Fest, there was heavy fog but no rain.

So we charged full force ahead. But as we neared opening the gates, light rain felled.  It came, it went.  Then it came back.  It danced with our nerves and it chilled our feet.  But it never took away the spirit of the harvest celebration.

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I think that the photos captured that spirit.

It reminds us that nature is unpredictable.

And makes us appreciate that farmers work in all types of weather conditions to grow our food.  It did make for a very different and wet festival.
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And as a result, we decided it was only fair to hold another festival on the rain date.

Thus on Oct. 30th we held the Seventh Green Cow Rain Date Harvest Fest.



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And luckily there was no rain !

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Rain Date Harvest Fest丰收节2011

10/7/2011

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On Sunday, October 30th, join in the festivities of The Green Cow Farm’s 7th Harvest Festival, from 11 am to 4 pm.

Don’t forget to buy your tickets!!!  You need tickets to attend.  Make sure you purchase them ahead of time so you aren’t disappointed.  Tickets are available at Mrs. Shanen’s Restaurant(8046-4301).    Group tickets can be purchased by e-mail two weeks prior to the event at thelovelygreencow@gmail.com, or lejen@mrsshanens.com

For further inquiries call the Green Cow Organic Farm (13501136920) or stop in at Mrs. Shanen’s shop in Shunyi, down the street from the International School of Beijing.

Highlights include:

  • games and activities for kids
  • hand-crafted artisan foods
  • fun and games include: a pumpkin rolling contest, coffee-sack race, corn relay, three-legged race, and tug-of-war.
  • traditional agricultural craft demos include broom making, thread spinning, cloth weaving, stone grinding, and corn shelling
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    Mrs. Shanen

    Hi! Good food--raw and cooked--is my passion.   Greencow Farm was started because I believe that no matter where you live, wholesome, fresh, and organically grown food should be readily accessible.  Our farm supplies ingredients for Mrs. Shanen's cafe, our family, and CSA members.  Spread the goodness!

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