Sunday, October 5^th from 11:00 am – 5:00pm

Farm Crawl 2007 was a great success and the hundreds of folks who came out had a great time. A sixth farm is joining the crawl in 2008 - even more to see and do!

Six independent family farm operations, all within a six mile radius of each other in south-central Iowa, are hosting simultaneous open houses.
Enjoy a leisurely autumn day “crawling” from farm to farm.

Come visit south Marion County/north Lucas County (one hour south of Des Moines) to see each of our individual operations. Tour the farms, visit the animals, meet the farmers, sample the goodies,
purchase locally grown products and have lots of fun outdoors! Free admission onto all of the farms.

The six farms include: Blue Gate Farm, Coyote Run Farm, Dan-D Farm, Pierce’s Pumpkin Patch
Reichert’s Dairy Air and Schneider Orchards.
(click on a farm name for more information on that individual farm)

Blue Gate Farm (Jill Beebout & Sean Skeehan) – a Certified Naturally Grown, chemical-free produce farm with pastured eggs, honey bees and alfalfa servicing our CSA and DM farmers market.

Sample homemade preserves and honey, and tour the season extending high tunnel and take home some of our farm-fresh products. Members of the Two Rivers Storytelling Guild will be on the farm throughout the day to entertain.

www.bluegatefarmfresh.com

Coyote Run Farm (Matt Russell & Patrick Standley) – a 110 acre farm rebuilding to profitability through relational marketing and sustainable agriculture that grow chemical-free produce & cut flowers, pastured poultry & eggs, hormone-free beef, hay, and mules.

Tour the work in progress on reclaimed grasslands, retrofitted buildings, and developing markets.
Sample a wonderful borscht (a Russian beet soup) recipe made with fresh produce from the farm.

www.coyote-run-farm.com

Dan-D Farm (Dan & Jana Dennison) – 24 acre cron maze, farm animals, hay rides, giant slide,
tropical ice and much more.

Pierce’s Pumpkin Patch (John & Joy Pierce) – thousands of different pumpkins, squashes, gourds, decorative corn and a shop full of Halloween celebration décor. Pork sandwiches and drinks available.

Reichert’s Dairy Air (Lois & Jack Reichert) – a state licensed goat micro dairy that recently moved into a custom built milking barn and cheese-making building.

Sample some of the several varieties of delicious artisan cheeses and see the goat herd.

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Schneider Orchard (Arnie & Jane Schneider) – fresh Iowa grown apples!

Stroll through a traditional pick-your-own orchard and enjoy pre-packed Jonathans and Red & Yellow Delicious apples. Homemade pie by available by the slice.

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