Many kids activities run all day. Check them out!

• Make a Recycled Bottle Bird Feeder

• Color your own native plant pictures from living plant samples and photos with Olivia Ellis. Learn to write haiku and other poetry and contribute to an informal poetry book
• Hands-on fruit propagation for kids with Lynne and Chuck Carson. Learn to propagate native grapes, strawberries, blueberries, etc and take a young native plant home
• Live bee display. See how bees live and function
• Bunyan Fortune grows yellow, white and popcorn in his demonstration gardens throughout Central Virginia, and he will be bringing his vintage corn and pioneer farm tools back to the Festival this year. Don't forget to taste his homegrown popcorn from vintage seeds; no hybrid or genetically modified material enters his world of corn

• Squirmy, Wormy Composters – Join Louisa county Master Gardener Land Stewards to learn how to make your own worm compost bin and get a few red wrigglers to take home and get them working on making “brown gold” out of kitchen garbage
• Birds in the garden with Dr Martha Neff Smith
• Frames from Nature - Picture frames made with treasures found around the grounds

10:00 AM

Talking Taste with Children (and parents)
With Sara Teaster
Location: Tasting Tent
(Children must be accompanied by adult. Workshop is 30 minutes long.)

This 30-minute class on food will explore the connection between smell and taste and introduce children to the adjectives used to describe taste (spicy, sweet, salty, tart, tangy…). A blindfolded "taste test" will conclude the class. Participants who complete the class will receive a "certified taste tester" award and a prize. For Children 2 and a half and Up and their parents

Sara Teaster is a lifelong Virginia resident who currently resides in Charlottesville, VA. She is a returning student, pursing her Bachelors degree at UVA. In researching her thesis project on Community Foods she has had the opportunity to work for King Family Vineyards, Best of What's Around Farm, and Feast! in the Main Street Market. She is an instructor in the school gardening project at the Barrett Early Learning Center sponsored by the Quality Community Council of Charlottesville.

10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon

Wildflower Bingo
Presented by nine-year-old Jake Mezey, horticulturist volunteering with Nelson County and The Wintergreen Nature Foundation.  Winners will receive their own native wildflowers.

Bill Nevill, long time propagator with The Nature Foundation will be demonstrating propagation techniques used for ensuring the continuance of native plants in the Blue Ridge Mountains, including the wildflowers he helped plant that will be given to young people.

Olivia Ellis with the Wintergreen Nature Foundation will offer native plant pictures for children to color (along with actual native plants!). Children will each be given a native plant to take home with them. Olivia will also be facilitating the creation of an informal book of nature poems, including typical poetry and haiku.

11:00 AM

Talking Taste with Children (and parents)
With Sara Teaster
Location: Tasting Tent
(Children must be accompanied by adult. Workshop is 30 minutes long.)

This 30-minute class on food will explore the connection between smell and taste and introduce children to the adjectives used to describe taste (spicy, sweet, salty, tart, tangy…). A blindfolded "taste test" will conclude the class. Participants who complete the class will receive a "certified taste tester" award and a prize. For Children 2 and a half and Up and their parents

Sara Teaster is a lifelong Virginia resident who currently resides in Charlottesville, VA. She is a returning student, pursing her Bachelors degree at UVA. In researching her thesis project on Community Foods she has had the opportunity to work for King Family Vineyards, Best of What's Around Farm, and Feast! in the Main Street Market. She is an instructor in the school gardening project at the Barrett Early Learning Center sponsored by the Quality Community Council of Charlottesville.

12:00 Noon

Talking Taste with Children (and parents)
With Sara Teaster
Location: Tasting Tent
(Children must be accompanied by adult. Workshop is 30 minutes long.)

This 30-minute class on food will explore the connection between smell and taste and introduce children to the adjectives used to describe taste (spicy, sweet, salty, tart, tangy…). A blindfolded "taste test" will conclude the class. Participants who complete the class will receive a "certified taste tester" award and a prize. For Children 2 and a half and Up and their parents

Sara Teaster is a lifelong Virginia resident who currently resides in Charlottesville, VA. She is a returning student, pursing her Bachelors degree at UVA. In researching her thesis project on Community Foods she has had the opportunity to work for King Family Vineyards, Best of What's Around Farm, and Feast! in the Main Street Market. She is an instructor in the school gardening project at the Barrett Early Learning Center sponsored by the Quality Community Council of Charlottesville.

Live Music at the Food Tents

With Kim & Jimbo Cary, who are Touring Artists of the Virginia Commission for the Arts. They'll be doing an acoustic concert of traditional folk music for families using their collection of gourd and other traditional instruments. Experience Irish jigs, Scottish reels, East European frailachs and West African rhythms culminating in a jam session with the audience playing gourds, maracas, rico-ricos, claves, bells, tambourines, and hand drums. The Carys play tin whistle, bodhran, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, acoustic bass, soprano saxophone, djembe (African lead drum), jun-jun (bass drum) and balafon (west African xylophone). Sing along with Kim & Jimbo's originals, including "The Library Song" for children learning to read, and "Save the Bay", an appeal to preserve Virginia's wild habitat.

Celebrating the cultural roots of Virginia and the U. S., the Carys have performed for over 100,000 children and adults throughout the Commonwealth, as well as at the White House, and at the Kennedy Center. Kim & Jimbo's CD, "Animal Friends", is a children's' music classic.

1:00 PM

The Heritage Harvest Chorus

The Heritage Harvest Chorus sings songs in celebration of living with the land. We sing from many traditions; songs of planting and harvest, gardening and foraging. Songs of celebration and thanks. Our performances are participatory. Come ready to break into song with us...

1:30 PM

Wildflower Bingo
Presented by nine-year-old Jake Mezey, horticulturist volunteering with Nelson County and The Wintergreen Nature Foundation.  Winners will receive their own native wildflowers.

Bill Nevill, long time propagator with The Nature Foundation will be demonstrating propagation techniques used for ensuring the continuance of native plants in the Blue Ridge Mountains, including the wildflowers he helped plant that will be given to young people.

Olivia Ellis with the Wintergreen Nature Foundation will offer native plant pictures for children to color (along with actual native plants!). Children will each be given a native plant to take home with them. Olivia will also be facilitating the creation of an informal book of nature poems, including typical poetry and haiku.

3:00 PM

Talking Taste with Children (and parents)
With Sara Teaster
Location: Tasting Tent
(Children must be accompanied by adult. Workshop is 30 minutes long.)

This 30-minute class on food will explore the connection between smell and taste and introduce children to the adjectives used to describe taste (spicy, sweet, salty, tart, tangy…). A blindfolded "taste test" will conclude the class. Participants who complete the class will receive a "certified taste tester" award and a prize. For Children 2 and a half and Up and their parents

Sara Teaster is a lifelong Virginia resident who currently resides in Charlottesville, VA. She is a returning student, pursing her Bachelors degree at UVA. In researching her thesis project on Community Foods she has had the opportunity to work for King Family Vineyards, Best of What's Around Farm, and Feast! in the Main Street Market. She is an instructor in the school gardening project at the Barrett Early Learning Center sponsored by the Quality Community Council of Charlottesville.