This free, self-guided tour extends from Plain to Ridgeway with stops at 12 small farms, food processors and local food businesses.
What can you see and do on the tour? See locally grown grains milled into flour and buy some to take home. Watch milk being turned into cheese and taste the difference between cheeses made from cow, goat and sheep’s milk. Lunch on smash burgers made from grass-fed beef and walk through a silvopasture. Sample juices made from aronia berries, honey berries and elderberries and find out why agroforestry is important. Walk through an orchard of specialty apples and pears with the mother-daughter duo who grow them. See baby farm animals. Buy cool season vegetable and herb plants to plant at home.
This family-friendly Farm & Food Tour is a chance for people to connect with a growing movement of small family farmers and other food producers who are producing wholesome food in ways that take care of people, animals and the environment. There will be many opportunities to taste and observe the differences that makes.
Get a tour map and brochure at www.savortherivervalley.org/events