10TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY HARVEST

Celebrating with joy

Over 100 of us gathered on the last Saturday of June to hand reap a bountiful harvest of Hourani wheat, thresh the grain and enjoy lunch in the barn with fresh-brewed Hourani Beer.

Sterling, age 12, summed up the importance of this day when she said, “I will take away a new approach to how I look at a loaf of bread.”

Reconnecting younger generations to the source of their food is an important piece of healing the land and our bodies and there’s no better way than through direct, hands-on experience to make these insights real. Both at our harvest celebration and through our work in four public school districts, thousands of children are learning where their daily bread comes from.

 
 

The Honorable Harvest
Give thanks for what you have been given.
Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken. 
Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever. 

-From Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

SPECIAL THANKS TO
Jen Jones and Mark Squire for warmly welcoming us to Tara Firma Farms 

Crop Adopt Partners: Anonymous, Elise Bauer, Marta Benson and Adam Willner, Common Table, Good Earth Natural Foods, The Johnson Family, Keenan Kelsey, Maggie Kinnaman, The Kirkpatrick Family, Molly Noble, Tina McArthur, The Pierrepont Family, Lydia Ruffin and Bonnie Taylor, Anne Wilbur, and The Woodard Family 

Guest Speaker Brandy Dreibelbis and Master of Ceremonies
Tom Giles

Musicians The Wronglers, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, and Lisa Kirchgestner 

Chef Joshua Gjersand and his team from Mt. Diablo Unified School District for preparing lunch
 Madrona Bakery who baked our scones and bread
Brewer Ken Clemmer and Admiral Maltings
Good Earth Natural Foods and Cowgirl Creamery for providing the wine and cheese

Ruth Benson for creating our anniversary bandana artwork

Tending Day Volunteers including the Common Table community
Susi Maxwell Photography

Volunteer Harvest Helpers for your teamwork and to the entire DeRuff Family: David, Katherine, Henry, John, and Ethan, without whom, this event would not be possible