Join us for the upcoming Northeast Ohio Reforestation Festival and Eco Gathering (NORFEG) Launch weekend on May 18th, 2019.
Come help us reach our goal and plant and freely distribute 10,000 tree seeds right here in Richfield, Ohio.
The festival will be 100% Free and will include a potluck picnic, various educational classes, and cool activities, followed by live music featuring local musicians, including a dance party along with flow arts Saturday evening after the first days planting.
All guests get to take home newly planted tree and vegetable seeds to share with their families and friends.
The primary intention for the event is to welcome and bring together in unity the many communities that call Northeast Ohio home and learn and practice creative ways to heal the local ecosystem.
Below are pictures of the festival.
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The festival will be held at the breathtaking historic Farnam Manor Museum, which is one of Northeast Ohio’s best-kept secrets.
We’re inviting all Northeast Ohio residents to join us and take part in the transformation of this once forgotten and neglected historical, Victorian estate.
Our plan is to restore and beautify the property with 100’s of native trees, plants, and wildflowers on this fun-filled weekend.
We also want to inspire and assist the residents of Northeast Ohio to plant more trees and wildflowers in their own backyards. During the festival, we will explore multiple, cost-effective, tried and true ways that each guest can also take home, implement and also help rewild and protect their own unique ecosystem.
The festival will be a celebration of life and liberty for all beings. It will honor and pay homage to the past, present and future generations of mankind and all species on planet earth!
Come and experience the spirit of “Environmental Resurgence” in live action this upcoming spring.
This 2-day event will be hosted in collaboration with the Mycowear team and the sacred caretakers of the Farnum Foundation.
So, how does planting trees, saving bees and butterflies, cleaning up and purifying rivers and streams sound to you? And, how does learning the fine art of being a steward of the land and protecting your local ecosystem and becoming a caretaker of the earth sound?
Come out to Northeast Ohio Festival and Eco Gathering and learn all about the fun and exciting world of restoration ecology, and explore the many, amazing ways that you can turn this into a reality starting this spring.
By attending this festival and showing your support, you help assist us with our 3 part mission which is to help plant one trees, help provide habitat for pollinators like bees and butterflies.
Your support helps make it possible to continue spreading the message about the fundamental importance of restoration ecology throughout the urban, suburban and rural landscapes. In addition to simultaneously initiating a powerful start to enhancing and improving local ecosystems throughout Northeast Ohio and beyond!
The need to take direct action is of astronomical importance. The Mycowear team works with a sense of urgency, to raise awareness and focus on real healing solutions to the issues and problems that plague ecological landscapes both locally, and around the world!
Your presence at the festival allows us to keep paying it forward to the next community, which helps us to reforest the countryside and heal neighboring communities everywhere.
Everything we do is Freely Given to you and the Northeast Ohio community.
All of the trees, micro-forests and wildflower meadows that we plant and other restoration ecology events that we organize and put on, including the ongoing and continued success of the mycowear mission, is 100% free of charge to each community including this festival and the admission, the food, and all the new tree seeds you can physically plant and take home.
Come experience the gift of reciprocation in live action. This event allows Mycowear to continue operating in the spirit of the sacred gift, and allows our team to offer our unique gifts and talents 100% free of charge, just for the love of it!
Join us and help co-create a more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
The Mycowear team will also be collaborating with other local professionals and healers to offer up a wide array of cool things and activities to do. There will be something for the whole family to take part in.
Beyond the wildly exotic adventure of planting native trees, wildflowers and planting thousands of seeds during this fun-filled weekend, there will also be many more exciting activities for the kids and the rest of the family to enjoy and bask in.
Some of these will include:
- A seedathon, which is a challenge to plant 10,000 tree seeds on the weekend of the festival. You’re free to take home as many as you can plant, give freely to your family, friends, and neighbors. Everyone can raise the little seedlings like their young, and then transplant them to their new homes in the earth.
- There will be a class on the art of making seed balls. Seedballs are a fun and easy way to plant from seed (not to mention an ancient way). Once the seed balls are made, they can be stored for years and planted at any time. All you do is just throw them, and they’ll sprout!
- Learn what it takes to be a Guerrilla Gardener and unleash the eco rebel within.
- We’ll also be making be hotels out of natural bamboo and yarn.
- Homemade bee hotels provide a simple home for the bees to buro in and make a nest. They can be placed in trees, or around backyard fences, or any alternative place that’s away from the house.
- There will be a native plant walk, to help you learn more about and identify some of the plants that grow here locally in Northeast Ohio.
- Learn more about beekeeping and why it’s so beneficial for the bees. This may even inspire you to become a beekeeper yourself and carve out a new career for yourself!
- Learn more about mushroom cultivation techniques, for both edible and medicinal purposes!
- Learn more about the intriguing world of mushrooms and the amazing science of mycoremediation and how the fungal kingdom has the potential to help save “part of the world” by healing soils and cleaning and purifying waterways everywhere!
- Learn more about the plants, animals and other species that share and inhabit our local ecosystem, and the vitally important roles that they play.
- There will be a rocket stove on display. Rocket stoves are one of the cheapest and most energy efficient ways to cook food. You can cook a meal using just a few twigs and nothing more. They’re great for camping!
- You will learn the proper way to build and maintain a compost pile (and the countless benefits that come with it).
- Learn the countless benefits of having a chemical-free lawn (along with proven, ecological alternatives that work better than their conventional counterparts).
- Learn a simple homemade recipe for a 100% natural weed killer with things that are more than likely already under your kitchen sink.
- Also, find out why it’s so important to leave a portion of the leaves in the fall. Hint; it helps provide crucial habitat for a very special creature.
- Gain access to the resources to start a micro-urban farm and set yourself free!
- Soil regenerative techniques that mimic the forest ecosystem that require NO chemical additives.
- Learn about some of the many benefits of wildflowers and trees?
- Learn the art of becoming an Eco-warrior!
- And so much more!
During the festival, we will also be exploring the foundational elements of Biodynamic agriculture that were created by Rudolf Steiner back in (insert date). Some have defined Biodynamics as a “spiritual approach” to agriculture which also coincides with the fazes of the moon and other cosmic cycles.
This will be a chemical free zone, meaning no pesticides, insecticides, ext.. Only sweat and compost tea!
The Mycowear team will also provide a lush bounty of food for all guests to enjoy free of charge. However, keeping in the spirit of a true potluck picnic, please feel free to bring a side dish or two.
This will create a mouthwatering smorgasbord buffet, a true cornucopia of wildly delicious dishes and desserts for everyone to indulge in and enjoy like a kid eating cake.
Here are a few ideas of what you could bring:
- Spaghetti
- Hummus
- Chips n Salsa
- pizza
- Salad
- Fruit salad
- Cookies
- Cake
- Truffles
- Beverages
- Cookies, twinkies or whatever
Or anything else that strikes your fancy or makes your mouth water and is easy to prepare or grab on the way.
But, it’s not necessary to bring anything either. Just come as you are and help us plant some love and goodness on the earth.
This also breathes life back into the “Danish Smorgasbord buffet” that was alive and vibrant from the year 1948 – 1972 when Theodore and Marie Kirk occupied the Farnam property.
Note: Please try and label your dish so people and individuals with food allergies can be aware, thanks.
However, the most important element is to just come and hang out and make some new friends.
This will be a safe, neutral space for the entire family to come, play and just be…
And, since this festival is free to all and (we’d like to keep it that way), please bring your own lawn chairs, plates to eat on and your own eating utensils.
Or, just bring a blanket and sit directly on the earth!
And as a huge thank you for coming out and supporting us, team Mycowear will also send all guests home with a plethora of tree, herb and vegetable seeds to plant in their own gardens, as a gift from our hearts to yours!
Please come join us in the spirit of the gift, and freely offer your gifts and talents from your heart to ours, and to the land beneath our feet.
A little more about the Farnam Manor Museum
A little over 10 years ago, this breathtaking historic, Ohio landmark was rescued from destruction and it’s destined demise.
The manor was built in 1834. The house is one of the most intact homes still standing, and relatively stout, left over from the North American Victorian Era.
Part of a Native American marker tree still stands proud on the property reminding us of the Native Americans original presence.
Conclusion
We all live in very uncertain, changing times. With the explosion of technology, one thing is clear, we as a people, can’t forget one of the most important aspects in this world, the thread that connects us all, and bridges the gap between our past, present and future, which is beautiful, magnificent nature in all of its glory and grandeur, including all the precious plants, animals and creatures that call it home. We’re all a part of it, everything that each of us does has a profound impact even if we can’t see it!
By attending the (NERFEG) you will be directly contributing to, and making the world a much more beautiful place that all of our hearts truly know is possible.
You will be helping the Mycowear team to continue on with their mission which is to help plant 1 trillion trees on planet earth, help bring back and revive all living species of pollinator like bees and butterflies back to pre-colonial numbers, and restore watersheds and clean up and purify rivers and streams all around the world.
And, in addition to the above, you will also be helping to fulfill one of the last living wishes of two of the previous owner’s that once occupied the Farnam property several years prior.
Engraved on the side of the Manor reads ” Love and cherish this classic domain. For I shall go but it will remain. Please take care of it for me. For it is a part of history. – Susan Zaruba 1990
Everett Farnam, who was the original owner of the Farnam Manor House back in 1834, also once said “God and I are partners on this land – I feel under great obligation to handle it right” – Everett Farnam
Fast forward a couple of years, and the property has been transformed into the Farnam Foundation which is a nonprofit historical preservation grassroots organization that created to help preserve and protect the manor.
The mission of the Farnam Foundation is the historic preservation of an endangered landmark. The Foundations core mission is to establish a strong, thriving community of people to share Love and Joy, and to make the world a more beautiful place.
When I read the testaments that the previous owners and caretakers of the property made, it reminds me that all throughout history many of our ancestors were caretakers and stewards of the land beneath their feet also!
Come help us carry the “torch of life”, and hand it to the proceeding generations so that they can also pass it on and pay it forward in the spirit of the gift!
If you feel like this message resonates and speaks to your heart, then please join us for the Free, Northeast Ohio Reforestation Festival and Eco Gathering launch weekend.
Thank you for helping to co-create a more beautiful world that our hearts all know is possible – Charles Eisenstein.
The event will be held rain or shine!
Please, no drugs or alcohol permitted during the event.
So mark your calendars and reserve the date and plan to get your hands dirty.
Because God made and dirt doesn’t hurt.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world – Mahatma Gandhi
Nature is Sacred. Join the movement. Help restore and protect ecosystems now!
Sincerely, the Mycowear team and the caretakers of the Farnam Foundation.