Cattle Drive, Homecoming Hoedown and Community Potluck
Help us bring our 55 cows and calves home and celebrate this years bountiful local harvest! It’s all happening Sunday, August 23. Read on for a schedule and details!
SCHEDULE: Rain or Shine!
10:30 AM – Folks interested in helping us with the cattle drive will meet at Brewster-Pierce School parking lot for a short, but MANDATORY training session. Bring clothing for the weather and conditions, comfortable and supportive walking shoes, and an ability and willingness to walk 5 miles at a cows pace (some of which is steep dirt road)! Please leave dogs and all other animals at home. We will have drinks and snacks in the wagon following behind the cows and the ability to pick up folks that lose steam. Folks who miss the training session will not be able to participate!
11:00 AM – Cattle Drive! We will start the drive and move the cows from the field at School Rd, down a short piece of Camel’s Hump Road, and then proceed south on The Main Road to Carse Rd., which climbs steeply up to Maple Wind Farm. We anticipate the entire drive to last approximately 2 ½ hours from start to finish. Most participants will walk along the side of the road as human fence posts to prevent cows from entering roadside lawns, gardens or meadows. We will also be looking for a few manure scrapers to clear the road as we go.
1:30 PM – Arrive at the farm and put cows safely into their home pasture. We’ll shuttle participants back to their vehicles at Brewster-Pierce.
3:00 PM – Please join us for our Homecoming Hoedown and Community Potluck. All are welcome, and you do not have to participate in the cattle drive to come. Bring the kids, a dish to pass (made from local products we hope), your own table ware, and your dancing shoes. We’ll provide meat tasters for all and some drinks but feel free to B.Y. O. B. Farm tours will be available and folks are welcome to explore the farm on their own (just watch the electric fence!). Weather permitting, we’ll hold the celebration in our high pasture, overlooking the Huntington Valley. Rain location will be in our large Arena Barn, the site of last years party.
4:00 PM – The band will start, and food is served!
5:30 – 7:30 PM – Thanks to all of you who’ve produced and supported local food… a few heartfelt acknowledgements. Time to dance and celebrate! Bruce Hennessey will call some square dances and we may have a guest caller or two lead us in further revelry. Dessert in honor of Maple Wind Farm’s 10th year will be served.
Please let us know if you’ll be joining the cattle drive portion of the day by emailing us your RSVP. Thanks and see you there!
Happy Trails, Beth, Bruce, Nate and the Maple Wind Crew.
