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Wednesday, June 17th is Kids Night at Full Circle Farm

This Wednesday, June 17th we will be having kid’s activities at the Full Circle Farmstand from 4:00-6:30pm. This week we will be exploring the life of seeds. We’ll have Master Seedsman seed identification, fun seed facts and portrait-making with old seeds. While your kids are having fun, you can browse the farm stand and purchase some of Full Circle’s latest seasonal harvests including the best beets in town! If you have any questions about the event, feel free to respond to this email.

We hope to see you all there!!!
Emma, CAFF Farm-to-School Coordinator

Full Circle Farm is located at:
1055 Dunford Way
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
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The chickens are here, and boy are they a hit! Our Kids’ Night on Wednesday at the farmstand was overrun by little ones clamoring to get a good look at our 6-week old hens. This set on the farm’s flickr stream shares a few great pics of the hens and their young friends.

Thank you Emma and CAFF for the lovely chicken-tastic night at the farmstand!
Continue reading Chicken-Mania at Full Circle Farm!

FCF is featured in this awesome video put together by the folks at Kellogg Foundation about the sea change that is happening all over Silicon Valley to change how we grow, get, and eat our food:
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Food & Society – San Jose

The conference was last week in San Jose and was an absolutely inspiring, amazing experience!

Diggin’ La Vida Local was one rockin’ awesome Earth Day Festival. Over 1800 of ya’ll came out to visit us – that’s a record here at the farm!

What better way to kick of Earth Day than with a big ol’ party? We may be just 18 months old, but I’m proud to say that we really seem to know how to throw a good one! We truly hope you all enjoyed the fabulous music, great friends (human, feathered, and furry varieties), yummy eats, fun stuff to do, and a chance to showcase the whole reason we’re here – to celebrate fresh healthy food grown close to home!

A special thanks to all of our sponsors, vendors, and organizations that came out to share the day with us – we hope you were able to get the word out on all the amazingly good work you are doing! And special thanks to Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara for making it all possible – we’re so happy to have you as a partner and had such fun with you yesterday!

As always, we hope to see you on the farm!

Stay cool,
Liz

Are you a local crafter, artist, or sustainable small business? We’d love to have you join us as a vendor on Earth Day!! Check out our Call for Artisans and apply today!

Full Circle Farm’s Earth Day Festival is only a month away! Farm staff and volunteers are now working overtime to make the event a huge success, and we’re excited at how the day is shaping up!

We have rockin’ blues singer Kaye Bohler and her band coming to set the mood, an incredible array of community groups coming to share the amazing work they’re doing, the new environmental sustainablity coordinator of the City of Sunnyvale, an amazing on-farm Wild Zone, lots of farm-fresh food to taste, fair trade coffee tastings from Barefoot Coffee Roasters, and the sweetest furry friends from mom-run Little Explorers Petting Zoo.

Hope to see you on the farm! Sunday, April 19th – 10am-2pm!

We are looking for volunteers to help with Full Circle Farm’s Earth Day Festival which will be on Sunday, April 19th from 10a to 2p. The festival is free for all, and features local food, local musicians, fun and games for all ages, a raffle, and lots of great information from  local organizations on how to enjoy the pleasures of a life lived simply and locally. Click here for more event info.

We need volunteers to help during the event, and with setup and cleanup. We would also like all volunteers to attend a training before the event. This will be held on Saturday April 18th at 10a. If you cannot make it to this, please let me know and we can work something else out.

Here are the times that we need volunteers:

4/18, 10a to 11a – Volunteer Training

4/18, 11a to  - Setup (setting up tables and strawbales, making signs, general farm cleanup, unloading equipment)

4/19, 8a to 10a – Setup (setting up activities, putting out signs, 

4/19, 10a to 2p – Event (leading kids activities, crowd control, answering questions)

4/19, 2p to 5p – Cleanup (loading equipment, taking down activities)

Please email Amie Frisch, our Volunteer Coordinator, to sign up.

We are still looking for more volunteers to help run our Farmstand on Wednesdays and Fridays. This is perfect for someone who loves fresh yummy produce and talking to people! We need volunteers who can commit to at least 2 shifts per month. Volunteer shifts are 2:30p -5p and 5p to 7:30p. You will be responsible for answering customer questions, weighing produce, and adding up prices. Please contact Amie Frisch, our Volunteer Coordinator, if you are interested. 

Check the Get Involved page for more volunteer opportunities.

 The Full Circle Farm Garden is a half acre patch of green in the northwest corner of the property. The garden meets several community needs while the farm at large is focused on locally grown food production. These needs are a place for children to experience growing produce, adult education, growing a large range of crops, and Peterson Middle School outdoor classroom. Read more on our garden page. The following volunteer positions will help us build more leadership to keep the garden growing. This is perfect for someone who would like to get more involved at Full Circle Farm. Read on to learn about the Saturday and Wednesday Garden Assistant Positions.

Continue reading Be a Volunteer Garden Assistant!