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Farmers Olympics
September 17, 2016 @ 12:00 am
SCHEDULENOON – 7PM
Full schedule coming soon… |
Just a preview of the many games we’ll host on Sept 17:
Hay bale stacking, Drip-tape jumprope, egg & spoon race, competitive irrigation, Lexicon of Sustainability food label trivia, Farm-fresh pizza topping contest, Hole Lotta Farm-to-School Toss, Synchronized Grazing, T-Post Pounding and much, much more…
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SCARECROW CONTEST!At this year’s big games, the School Garden Network of Sonoma County is excited to host the Scarecrow Contest! |
Anyone can participate. Just bring a homemade scarecrow to the Farmer Olympics and submit your entry by 5pm.
Based on style and creativity, a panel of judges will award medals to the top three picks at 5:30pm as well as a special prize for this year’s the gold medal winner.
Schools Groups, Clubs, Community
Gardens encouraged to Participate.
Get in touch with questions here
T-POST POUNDING(for experienced practitioners only)
Gather ’round to watch one of the most exciting olympic events of the year, the t-post pounding competition! In this game of brute strength, farmers and ranchers race to drive these ubiquitous fence posts into the ground. As always, this one’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.
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UGLY PRODUCE BEAUTY PAGEANT
Crooked carrot in your garden? Speckled apple at the farmers market? How about a lopsided pumpkin on your farm? Bring them to the Farmer Olympics and enter to win this pageant of alternative and edible aesthetics! Gold, silver and bronze medal winners will receive cookware from Lodge Cast Iron! The Ugly Produce is Beautiful Educational Campaign works to increase the appreciation and consumption of “ugly” fruits & vegetables to reduce the resulting food waste and pollution. |
MOB GRAZIERS
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BUTTER CHURNING
With fresh, organic cream from a local dairy, a single mason jar and a whole lotta shakin’, you can make delicious butter all on your own! But can you do it faster than everyone else? Find out at the butter churning contest with Straus Family Creamery!
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FARM HACK
This summer, the Farmers Guild teams up with the Chimera Art Space for a Farm Hack, uniting makers, engineers, artists and tinkerers with local farmers to think up–and then build solutions to on-farm challenges.
All welcome to participate. Final products will be debuted at the Farmer Olympics to a panel of judges.
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HARVEST TIME GRAPE TOSSHarvest is a bountiful time here in the North Bay, with plenty of extra grapes to gobble up! Grab a partner, grab a grape, and take aim with this can’t miss game hosted by the Napa Farmers Guild.
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PIPE DREAMS
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SQUASH BOWLINGPerfect your aim for this harvest-time favorite with our friends from Farmster who believe that from the big actions to the small everyday acts, everyone has a role in creating a resilient, local food system, with happy healthy people. |
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WHEELBARROW RELAYGet the carbon cycle moving with the Compost Coalition of Sonoma County in this down-and-dirty relay for soil-loving speed demons. Haul this gardener’s black gold with your trusty partner and don’t tip over the loot! Gold medal winners receive five yards of Nicasio Blend from West Marin Compost! |
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HARVEST BINGOFill your basket with fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables with Harvest Bingo. Mark your card and win! Winners will receive a prize thanks to our friends at Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
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FOOD LEXICON TRIVIABiodynamic? Cage-free? Food forest? Mob stocking? Test your food vocabulary at the Lexicon of Sustainability‘s word trivia game and go home ready to navigate the murky world of food labels.
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Try out your culinary chops and enter this epicurean competition. You bring the toppings and, with help from a mobile cob oven by Living Earth Structures, we’ll cook up your creation for a panel of hungry judges. RULES: We provide dough, oil, pepper and salt; all other toppings must be homegrown or purchased at the olympic farmers market. |
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CORN HUSKING
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Join Wholesome Creations for this harvest time race: the corn husking race! Then stick around for a kids cooking demo as we’ll learn how to make a delicious, healthy, organic succotash from scatch.
SOIL ZONEIt all starts with soil! Stop by the Soil Zone for games and activities about the building blocks of healthy food with the Santa Rosa Junior College‘s Sustainable Ag program together with the Sonoma and Gold Ridge Resource Conservation Districts and Natural Resources Conservation Service!
Learn to Identify Soil Types by Texture Testing: Learn all about different soil types and how to tell them apart! |
Plant Lasso: You are a plant, and you’re hungry. To get what you need, you’ll have to pull them in to your body. How? With a lasso, of course! And you may not be the only plant in the garden. Try to lasso sunlight, oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, water and nutrients within 5 minutes—the first plant to do so is the winner!
Soil Organism Toss “Teeming with Life”: Soil is teeming with life! What and where are these organisms living in the soil? Test your aim with this soil ecosystem toss game.
Compost Relay Race: You and a friend race to create a compost pile in just 2 minutes! Piles will be judged on their contents – green matter, brown matter, food scraps and trash.
Soil Painting Station: Different soil types have been pulverized into powder and lightly diluted with water in various paint pots. Artists can sketch out a composition first, or just get right to painting! Artists can take their painting home at the end.
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SPEED
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WATERMELON
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FARMERS DREAM
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Race to fill your Honey Comb with Nectar! Participants will race with eyedroppers to liquid-filled test tube flowers then return to deposit their “nectar” in a honeycomb. The participant who collects the most “nectar” wins. Each participant will receive a delicious “Honey Stix”.
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