Cottingham Farm in Easton will be kicking off the holiday season with a harvest festival and cocktail hour on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 from 4 to 7pm. Visitors can browse the farmers market featuring Cottingham Farm Organic vegetables, prepped veggies, take-and-bake sides, and ready-to-serve appetizers for the Thanksgiving feast. Lyon Distilling will sponsor a tasting of locally-made spirits and cocktails and local nutritionist Dr. K Virdee is sharing a Fire Cide-r chat that focuses on keeping your immune system strong through the sometimes stressful holidays. Live music will be provided by Ampersand, an Americana and blues duo from Denton. Pre-ordered Black Bottom Thanksgiving turkeys and sides can be picked up during the farmers market.
Originally settled in 1658 by families from “Cottingham” in Yorkshire, England, the Cottingham farmland (now about 160 acres) features healthful, sustainably grown and locally distributed fruits, vegetables and herbs. Produce at this Certified USDA Organic farm is grown using organic methods, with no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides, surrounded by buffers of wildlife habitat and buffers for the Chesapeake Bay. In addition, the farm includes over fifty acres of Conservation Reserve practices including an eighteen acre wetland which is a habitat for teal, black duck and other disappearing native waterfowl; thirty acres of warm season grass buffers around all fields to prevent water, sediment, nitrogen and phosphorous runoff as well as provide habitat for the disappearing native quail; two acres of native trees and shrubs on the water’s edge; over twenty acres of cover crops; and almost ten acres of meadows.
Lyon Distilling Company is a nano, craft distillery located in Saint Michaels, Maryland. A founding member of the Maryland Distillers Guild, LDC spirits start with intentionally-sourced raw ingredients, and are truly hand-crafted – mashed, fermented, and double-distilled in small pot stills – every step of the way. Favorite spirits include white rum, coffee rum, Sailors Reserve rum, and overproof French-Oak finished rum.
Dr. K. Virdee’s naturopathic family practice, based in Easton, provides thorough medical evaluation and diagnostic testing, coupled with compassionate care, with the goal of educating and empowering patients to improve their health naturally.
Local musicians Beth Lawton and Dick Hogle are the core of Ampersand, a family-friendly string band that plays a variety of songs and tunes from early colonial America through the blues of the 1920s and 30s, on up to modern folk music. They support their rich vocal harmonies with guitar, mandolin, banjo, and hammered dulcimer.
The Black Bottom Farm Collective began as a Kent County sustainable pastured livestock farm selling at the Easton Farmers Market. Owner Kim Wagner began the Black Bottom Farm Collective in 2017 and now offers an online local food market with home delivery in the Easton and St. Michael’s area. The Collective partners with local sustainably-minded farmers and food makers to offer produce, meat, pantry staples, and ready to eat food through their online platform and at local pop up markets. They are excited to collaborate with Chesapeake Harvest, another local food distributor and agricultural support network, on this event and future endeavors to further strengthen the local food system.
Drop by for a quick bite to eat, impromptu market shopping, visiting with your local farmers, listening to some music, turkey pick up, or all of the above! For more information, please check out Cottingham Farm’s website (www.cottinghamfarm.com) or call 410-763-8385. Holiday dinners never tasted so good (or were so easy!) as with local ingredients!
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