Ventura County Farm Day 2017

November 2, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The 5th Annual Ventura County Farm Day will take place Saturday, November 4, 2017 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at farms throughout Ventura County.

Farm Day is a free self-guided tour in which over 20 participating Ventura County farms open their doors, enabling the public to learn about agriculture firsthand. Farms feature a number of family-friendly activities, free produce, tours and food and beverage samplings.

Activities also include a family-friendly Farm Film Festival November 3 at the Ventura County Ag Museum in Santa Paula at 6:00 p.m., a free light and an easy breakfast Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. at Whole Foods at The Collection in Oxnard. Following the farm tours will be a barbecue at the Hansen Agricultural Center in Santa Paula. The barbecue is from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and features live country music by Coldwater Canyon and Friends, farm-fresh food prepared by Deerdorff Farms, locally produced craft cocktails, beers, and wines; and kids’ activities. Barbeque tickets are $45 for adults and $15 for kids under 12.

Ventura County Farm Day is organized by Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture (SEEAG). SEEAG’s mission is to help children understand the farm origins of their food through classroom agricultural education and free farm field trips.

For more information, go to www.venturacountyfarmday.com or call 805-901-0213.

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Help Local Foster Children – Hope4Kids Festival and Run

April 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Save the date! Join in to help some foster children and if you are into road races, you should check out this upcoming 5K/10K and mile fun run happening in Camarillo on April 29:

Hope4Kids flyer - event to help foster children

All proceeds from the races, the festival, and a huge silent auction they are having will benefit foster children in Ventura and Los Angeles counties through the group RaisingHOPE. Here are some sobering facts from them:

There are approximately 1,200 children in foster care in Ventura County and 28,000 children in foster care and Los Angeles County. Many of these children are in group homes or are shipped out of county because there are not enough foster families to care for them. These situations disrupt a child’s ability to live in a healthy family and impede their schooling, family visits and they even split siblings. Without our community getting involved many of these children have no one. They are essentially cared for by a system of paid staff in homes with other children. We aim to bring the children to the community so that each citizen can do something to help our most vulnerable children. We help hundreds of youth annually through our programs as follows.

For more information and to see how else you can help, visit RaisingHOPE’s website.

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