DIY Soda With Jacqueline Freeman of Friendly Haven Rise & Tressa From Salt, Fire & Time - 1.26.2011

January 26th — Fermented Sodas (w/ Jacqueline Freeman & Tressa!): 

This class we will discuss, taste and demonstrate how to make your own kombucha, water kefir, lacto-fermented sodas and more. We can help troubleshoot your current experiments with fizzy fun drinks or alleviate your fear to try it at home. Take home a kombucha scoby or water kefir grains!

Recipes to include coconut water kefir, basic kombucha, verbena soda, and root beer.

$40/person 

6:30pm

Save Friendly Haven Rise Farm!

Jacqueline and Joseph Freeman are currently in danger of losing their farm and their home due to a poorly managed federal mortgage aid program. Their lender, Wells Fargo (recipient of billions of TARP bailout dollars), has sent them a notice of foreclosure. The Freeman's are pioneers in the sustainable agriculture/homesteading movement here in Clark County. They freely share their knowledge and experience, organize the annual Venersborg Heirloom Apple Tasting and offer numerous educational opportunities via classes at their farm, Friendly Haven Rise. Please contact Senator Patty Murray & Rep Craig Pridemore and let them know that their federal aid program is failing their constituents. And if you are a customer of Wells Fargo, it couldn't hurt to let them know how you feel about their actions as well. 


Let's help the Freeman's save their farm!.

Jacqueline Freeman of Friendly Haven Rise Farm on Colony Collapse Disorder

Jacqueline Freeman is the author of an upcoming book "Bees, the OTHER Way" and runs Friendly Haven Rise Farm with her family here in Clark County. In this video and her upcoming book release, she points out the different strategies that conventional bee keepers might try to save their hives from colony collapse disorder. 







Permaculture and biodynamics DO exist in Clark County. You can learn much more from the folks at Friendly Haven Rise Farm by attending one of their many classes or an overnight farm stay. The next class offered by the Freemans will be:

BEES: THE OTHER WAY 
Sat. Oct. 30 from 10-4... $50 
Learn to be a friend to bees. Beekeepers, novices and backyard bee afficionados all welcome. 

Heirloom Apple Tasting & Apple Tree Variety Identification - 10.17.2010

This is a really great event and wonderful opportunity to tour some of the lesser known areas of Clark County...not to mention a chance to rub elbows with Jacqueline & Joseph of Friendly Haven Rise Farm.  


Sunday Oct 17th from 11-4
Venersborg One-Room Schoolhouse
24317 NE 209th St., Battle Ground, WA

Clark County used to be a fruit growing area, well known for abundant and gorgeous apple trees. There's a good chance some of the old apple trees that are languishing in backyards and old farm fields may be the last of their varieties. That's what happened with us -- three years ago we identified one of our ancient apple trees as, until we re-found it, "thought to be extinct." Help us find more before the old trees die out.

First, the apple tasting:
We have over 200 different kinds of apples to taste. Yes, indeed, come hungry because 200 tastes of each and every apple will be like eating who knows how many single apples -- a lot! And every one of them is different. We've got apples that taste sweet, tart, juicy, bake up well, smell like bananas - roses - honey - cinnamon. We have some that have been grown continuously for 400 years and others that were just brought out to the public in the past decade. Some have flesh white as snow, others are striped pink inside, or golden yellow, and some are even deep red INSIDE. They're all so unusual and nearly all of them are uniquely delicious, or uniquely shaped, or uniquely colored inside and out.

And you get to taste them all. How cool is that?

The apple tasting is at the historic Venersborg one-room Schoolhouse at the corner of Risto Rd (also called 209th Ave) and 242nd Ave right across from the Venersborg Store. Lovely country drive, right near our farm and about 35 minutes north of PDX. Come on out.

24317 NE 209th St., Battle Ground, WA
Admission is $5, kids under 16 are free.

What's going on that day?
* Taste as many apples as you like. Try them all!
* Pie making demos
* Make your own pie to take home and bake
* Homemade yummy apple goodies to eat
* Hotdogs, apple turnovers, apple scones, hot cider
* Tour the schoolhouse and hear its history
    at 1pm and 3pm
* Raffle tickets for the handmade quilt the elder
    ladies in Venersborg made this year
* Taste an apple you really like? We can graft one
    for you when they go dormant this winter and
    we'll have it ready for a February planting

* Apple Identification
If you have an old apple tree in your yard (or know someone who does) bring a half dozen of them
(unwashed, unpolished, just as they are when you pick them) in a paper bag and we'll have our experts from the Home Orchard Society tell you what they are. These people are really good. The old tree we have is called a GIDEON SWEET, a type that had, for 50 years, been thought to be extinct. If you come to the apple fest you can taste it, knowing that nobody but our cows had been eating them for many years. (didn't we feel silly, giving such an incredible apple to our herd!)

More info on our website http://www.FriendlyHaven.com/apples.html

Drum roll please ... due to the massive success of our fundraising for the old schoolhouse over the past
two years, this is the FIRST TIME we have a real flush toilet instead of the outhouse. Aren't we proud?

warmly,
Jacqueline & Joseph Freeman
Friendly Haven Rise Farm

Have A Unique Thankgiving Experience @ Friendly Haven Rise Farm

I am personally acquainted with the Freeman's and I GUARANTEE you will have the time of your life if you choose to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with them at their farm. And only $500 for the experience...it's a freakin' bargain. Give Joseph or Jackie a call and book your seat at their table before they're all gone.

Here's the deal straight from the turkey's mouth:

Thanksgiving at the Farm: for 2 to 8 people

Holidays are times of great family traditions. We invite people who are friendly and interesting to spend Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years with us on our biodynamic farm. The harvest is in, the gardens have been put to bed for the winter and the fruit, meat and vegetables have been preserved, dried, canned and frozen for the coming seasons. Now we're settling in to our roomy farmhouse to share our joy and knowledge with good people: Farm skills like milking a cow, tending chickens, making cider, learning about bees, and cooking up great meals made with healthy, organic ingredients.

The first offering is for Thanksgiving. You're invited to arrive Wednesday evening in time to bake a few pies with us. Thursday we'll dig potatoes, make fresh butter, cook turkey and the fixings and eat, eat, eat. You're welcome to create your own family favorite for the meal, too.

Friday we'll introduce you to our cows and you can try your hand at milking, play with the baby calves, collect eggs, make eggnog and yogurt, take a hike to the waterfall. Bring a favorite game for evening.

Saturday we'll teach you all about bees, honey skin care, bake some rustic tarts, chop firewood if you feel so inclined, and participate in talent night that evening. Bring a poem to read, art to show, song to sing, dance for/with us or just watch and applaud. Sunday is the classic "day of rest." Sleep in and lounge about or help out with our daily farm chores.

Sound like fun? We've got four bedrooms in the farmhouse so we have room for up to four couples (preferred) or singles who want to share a room. You can be all eight together or you can come on your own. A farm with a houseful of goodhearted people is a happy farm. We'll also offer this for up to eight people for the four-day weekends around Christmas and New Years. No pets (we have PLENTY of animals). This is family style so expect to make your own bed and help with dishes. Still, our intent is that this time be relaxed for all and full of laughter.

Cost is $500 per person from Wednesday night to Sunday afternoon and food is included. We ask that you pay half when we reserve your spot and then pay the other half when you get here.

If you'd like to see more of our farm, visit http://www.FriendlyHaven.com (lots of pictures) or see what we're up to on our blog http://www.blog.FriendlyHaven.com

Our experience tells us we get along best with easy-going people who are interested in good health and have a well developed sense of humor. If you're like that and wish you had a farm to go home to for the holidays, pop us over an email at
FriendlyHaven@gmail.com or call us at 360-687-8384

Warmly,

Jacqueline & Joseph Freeman
Friendly Haven Rise Farm