Easton Farm Tour 2012

Mark your calendars!

The 4th Annual Easton Farm Tour is happening on

Saturday, August 11, 2012!

Join us for the 4th Annual Easton Farm Tour – Saturday, August 11, from 10am to 3pm. This celebration of Easton, a local and sustainable farming community within Fairfield County CT, is a self-guided tour of Easton farms.  This event begins at the Easton Firehouse Green, One Center Road, Easton, Connecticut. Here visitors check in and pick up a map and listing of the events for the day. Remember to check the event board for up to the minute listing of events and incentives offered by farmers and community organizations at the different locations throughout day.  We have some added surprises this year, so stay tuned!

Fun for the whole family! Come and enjoy the many farming delights that Easton has to offer and learn where your food comes from. Enjoy pony rides, hayrides, petting zoo, food tastings, greenhouse tours, and picking veggies and fruit fresh from the farm.  Swing on back to the green for some food and old time fun and games and a visit with Easton organizations passionate about farming, community, and farmland preservation.

Citizens For Easton (CFE) will be joined by other Easton organizations with informational booths on the Green for this community event. Learn what farming was like 100 years from the Easton Historical Society and tour the Historic Bradley-Hubbell House Barn and antique tool exhibit.  Visit with members of the Easton Garden Club, creators of the Easton Farm Map – “Easton is a Farmers’ Market” and tour the Historic Bradley-Hubbell House Gardens maintained by the Easton Garden Club. Learn about “growing your own” at the Master Gardener booth.  Learn how The Aspetuck Land Trust is a friend to agriculture and devoted to preserving open space and natural resources in Easton, Fairfield, Weston and Westport.  Catch up with The Nature Conservancy, the Easton Community Center, and the Easton Public Library. Learn about farming in front of Samuel Staples Elementary School from the Easton Agricultural Commission.

Come on back to the green throughout the day to enjoy food and entertainment on the green. Skinny Pines – an Easton-based purveyor of wood-fired pizzas –will be on site with their mobile wood-fired oven selling pizza and the Easton Community Center will engage you in some old time fun and games for families.

This is truly a community event in celebration of farming in Easton – past, present, and future. So, come and meet us at the green, have lunch, listen to music and visit our farms.

Event:                  4th Annual Easton Farm Tour

Dates:                   August 11, 2012

Times:                   10 am – 3pm

Location:              Start your self-guided tour at the Easton Firehouse Green, 1 Center Road, Easton, CT 06612