Let’s gather together to celebrate Earth Day with good company and earth-loving activities!

9-10 am Secretary’s Road Trash Clean Up: join a small group of volunteers in the morning before the event to clean up the road leading to the Bellair Farm driveway. For volunteers age 16+. Sign up here.

11am-12pm Plant Walk with Little Bluestem: Little Bluestem cultivates a resilient and harmonious future for Central Virginia's land and people, human and otherwise. We seed, tend, and distribute native plants that are essential to our bioregional ecosystem. All our plants are grown from responsibly and lovingly gathered local genotype seeds. Plant Walks with members of Little Bluestem around the Bellair lands will include education regarding native plants, their benefits for non-humans and humans alike, identification tools, succession ecology, seed collection protocols, and more.

Ongoing Activities throughout the day:

• Plant Sales herbs and Spring vegetables from Bellair Farm, medicinals from Gathered Threads, and native plants from Little Bluestem

• The Elderberry - Community Herbs & Healing herbalist Meg Madden will be on site to share herbal tea and chat about tending medicinal plants responsibly.

• Clothing Swap: contact us if you are interested in bringing clean, gently-used clothing.

• Garden Supply & Seed Swap: bring us your excess seeds and any gardening tools that you no longer need!

• Farm Supply Giveaways: extra pallets, greenhouse plastic, row cover, and landscape fabric that you can use for your home garden

• Collection Stations: bring us clean, gently used paper bags, Bellair plant pots & blue-green pint/quart containers from last year that we can reuse <--- you can bring these to market/barn store staff NOW or on Earth Day

Taiga Coffee will be on site and we’ll have Farm-to-Table plates by SFG Food, featuring Bellair meat & veggies. The Barn Store will be open as usual with produce, pastured meat & eggs, local food products and Spring plants for sale.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

One of our most popular events is back - come meet our baby farm animals and say 'hello' to our mature animals, too! Expect chicks and chickens, piglets, cattle, lambs, and more. The animals are all located within walking distance of the Barn. We recommend boots or shoes appropriate for mud just in case.

The Barn Store will be open starting at 9am and local food vendors will be on site. Our walking trails will also be open for the season!

Food Vendors: BBQ U, Khadija’s Kitchen, & Taiga Coffee

Important safety notes about Baby Animal Day:

• Please leave your dogs and pets at home today! Our guardian dogs will be working closer to the barn due to the event, and it helps us keep things simple.

• Please be aware all our animal fencing is electrified.

• Because this is a working farm, we don't allow touching the animals or entering the fenced enclosures. We want to keep all of our babies safe, including yours!

• We will be taking precautions against avian flu: if you have backyard chickens, we will ask that you remain at a distance from our birds for risk mitigation.

order tickets or pick up at the door:

Learn the Ukrainian traditional art of Pysanky egg decorating with Valerie Goodman. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Living Earth School need-based scholarship fund.

$25 per person. Note, this workshop is not recommended for kids under 15. This craft utilizes fire (tea lights/votives) and hot wax.

The workshop will take place in the back room near the farm office in the Bellair Barn.

Sign up directly with Valerie below:

Farmer Michelle is teaching this workshop through Bread and Roses at Trinity Episcopal Church in Charlottesville. Workshop will cover:

• VDACS regulations and what to expect from inspection process

• what products you can make at home vs what needs inspection vs what products you can't make under VDACS regs

• Labeling guidelines

• FLIP insurance 

Stay tuned for information about how to sign up.

Led by Bellair farmer Michelle McKenzie. The workshop will start with a greenhouse tour, the middle portion will be an overview of home gardening and seed starting tips. Finally, a long Q and A/discussion session will follow. You can bring questions and concerns from your garden (photos can help) and I can see if I have tips! We can also talk about planning for the upcoming season and what's easy to grow yourself vs what you'd prefer to buy. It should be informative and fun for everyone!

FREE, no registration required.

Saturdays: Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, Dec 16

Drop in between 10 am and 2 pm to make your own wreath with fresh greenery & dried materials from the arround farm! Please bring your own gloves and clippers if you have them. Cost is $35 to make a wreath and can be paid on site.  

The barn store will also be open with gifts and farm foods for sale. If you can't make one of our sessions but still want a wreath, we offer take-home wreath kits (below left) and deluxe pre-made wreaths (bottom right). Email us if you would like more information about private wreath-making sessions.

Saturdays: Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, Dec 16

Drop in between 10 am and 2 pm to make your own wreath with fresh greenery & dried materials from the arround farm! Please bring your own gloves and clippers if you have them. Cost is $35 to make a wreath and can be paid on site.  

The barn store will also be open with gifts and farm foods for sale. If you can't make one of our sessions but still want a wreath, we offer take-home wreath kits (below left) and deluxe pre-made wreaths (bottom right). Email us if you would like more information about private wreath-making sessions.

Saturdays: Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, Dec 16

Drop in between 10 am and 2 pm to make your own wreath with fresh greenery & dried materials from the arround farm! Please bring your own gloves and clippers if you have them. Cost is $35 to make a wreath and can be paid on site.  

The barn store will also be open with gifts and farm foods for sale. If you can't make one of our sessions but still want a wreath, we offer take-home wreath kits (below left) and deluxe pre-made wreaths (bottom right). Email us if you would like more information about private wreath-making sessions.

Saturdays: Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, Dec 16

Drop in between 10 am and 2 pm to make your own wreath with fresh greenery & dried materials from the arround farm! Please bring your own gloves and clippers if you have them. Cost is $35 to make a wreath and can be paid on site.  

The barn store will also be open with gifts and farm foods for sale. If you can't make one of our sessions but still want a wreath, we offer take-home wreath kits (below left) and deluxe pre-made wreaths (bottom right). Email us if you would like more information about private wreath-making sessions.

Looking for a casual, family-friendly Halloween experience? Come to the farm and celebrate with us!

Costumes are highly encouraged, and we’ll have some fun outdoor activities for everyone:

• Pumpkin carving, hay rides, & face painting for a small fee

• Self-guided farm activities: photo booth, surghum labyrinth, farm animals, walking trails

The Barn Store will be open as usual and we’ll local food vendors selling prepared foods.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Spend some quality time with your farm/farmers. We hope that after this event, you leave with knowledge and a feeling of community and relationship with the land. This event is FREE and open to the public!

We've got a choose-your-adventure menu of activities:
(No registration required - just show up and hang out!)

• 9-10:30 AM Wildflower Walk with farmer Michelle

• 9-10:30 AM Livestock Tour with farmer Nat

• 10 am - 12 pm Invasive Species Removal hands-on workshop (participants get a free dozen eggs or Bellair jarred good!)

• 11 am - 2 pm Community Oven use -- cook up eggplants, peppers, or even breads in our wood-fired oven. Michelle will have it hot and attend it if you need pointers.

• 10:45 am - 2 pm Ask-me-anything with farmer Michelle -- bring us any questions re: farming, gardening, cooking, food preservation, conservation, wildlife and more!

Mix and match activities according to your interests and available time. The tours will depart promptly at 9. Wear appropriate shoes for dirt/mud/rough ground & we recommend a water bottle. We are excited to spend some time together!

A pantry stocked with preserved local veggies is a satisfying sight! Whether you are totally new to canning or want a quick refresher course, Michelle will have you covered in this workshop.

$20 per person ($10 for 2023 Members)