Thank you to everyone that came out for Snow Day! The benefit at Barley’s Taproom was a huge success with a silent auction, soup-off, live music and beard pageant.

For the silent auction, we had over 100 items from local businesses and crafters. Thank you to everyone who participated! If you have won an item and haven’t yet picked it up, please come to the LT Ross CAC building at 2247 Western Ave. to collect your winnings!

Finally, our 2nd Annual Beard Pageant was a huge success with even more participants than last year! Our “homemade” category was the most competitive yet! This year’s winners were Shelagh with a locally grown human hair beard, Angie with a local and organic kale beard, and Trey with a bird’s nest beard complete with eggs and a bird! The “homegrown” category included over a dozen men with the first place award going to fellow-Americorps member Adam Bean with a Lion’s Mane Beard. You would have to see it to believe it. Thank you to Barley’s Taproom for donating the Beard Pageant prizes!

Lastly, we also have several gardening calendars left! The calendars are now available for a reduced price of $20. Each month’s page features suggestions specific for East Tennessee with information for which crops to start indoors, transplant, direct seed, and harvest. Every month also includes season specific tips for improving your garden and has ample room for taking notes—whether they are about your garden, or just everyday events. For more pictures and more information on the calendars click here.

Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria, 200 East Jackson Ave.

Admission: $7   |   Soup Tickets: $3

Snow Day is CAC Beardsley Community Farm’s largest fundraiser of the year! Snow Day will feature live music, a “soup-off” between local restaurants, a homegrown and homemade beard pageant and silent auction.

Featured musicians: The Hotshot Freight Train, The Lonetones, The Theorizt, Yunglife, TimLee3, Kelsey’s Woods, and Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuego

Soup with Bread: A soup-off featuring some of Knoxville’s finest restaurants including the reigning champion Coolato Gelato, Bistro at the Bijou, Just Ripe, Plaid Apron, Harry’s Deli, and more!

Beard Pageant: Come participate in Beardsley Farm’s 2nd annual Homegrown and Homemade Beard Pageant! All participants, both men and women, are welcome to strut their finest beards before a panel of beard and hair connoisseurs.

Silent Auction: In past years our silent auctions have included a cabin rental in the Smokies, CSA shares to local farms, a YMCA household membership, musical instruments, and gift certificates to local restaurants and businesses.

Last year 900 people attended Snow Day, helping us raise 20% of our operating budget for the year. Don’t miss out this year!

Sponsors for Snow Day include: 91.9 WUOT, 90.3 WUTK, 89.9 WDVX,  Metro Pulse, and Three Rivers Market

Snow Day will be at Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria in the Old City and feature live music, a “soup-off” between local restaurants, Beard Pageant, and silent auction. In past years our silent auctions have included tickets to Bonnaroo, CSA shares to local farms, musical instruments, and gift certificates to local restaurants and businesses.

Last year 900 people attended Snow Day, helping us raise 20% of our operating budget for the year. We will announce the music line-up very soon, so stay tuned and join us in January to help make this year’s Snow Day even better!

We have made important steps towards this goal:

- The great folks at Elizabeth Eason Architecture have designed a beautiful building to meet our needs. Please see the design below.

- Former Mayor Victor Ashe has generously pledged $5000 towards a building at Beardsley Farm. Beardsley was started during Victor Ashe’s tenure as mayor with support from his team at the City of Knoxville, and we are honored by his continued generosity.

- We have set up a Donation Pay button on our website to generate community support.

Last year, Beardsley Community Farm attracted over 2,000 people of all ages to visit, volunteer, and learn. A building not only would help us better organize, but it would help provide a facility for our many visitors to use the restroom, a sheltered area for workshops and classes, especially during times of extreme temperatures, and an ideal environment to store and preserve vegetables. We are so excited about the prospect of a facility that would help us better serve the community. Please support Beardsley’s goal and make a contribution today!

The calendar also features many stunning photos of Beardsley Farm, many of which were taken by our own Daniel Aisenbrey—Russell Printing Options in Fort Sanders really did a fine job with making the colors vivid and beautiful. The calendar is printed on 11×17” cardstock, and is available for $25. It would make a great gift for anyone who appreciates gardening, local food, and the outdoors. Each purchase of the calendar will also support Beardsley Community Farm. To purchase a calendar, contact us at beardsleyfarm@gmail.com.

Check out a couple sample pages below!

Raindate will be Thursday, December 1st. Same time and location.

Please look for more information on how to purchase a book through Beardsley Community Farm or check out more information online at http://tanyadencklacobb.com/.

The exhibit will be on display throughout the month of November; afterwards the show will move to The Tomato Head in Maryville for December.

Print of the artworks are available for purchase: $45 for a 16×20 and $15 for a 8×10. Please preview thumbnails below and click on the image to view in full.

Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/200875

CAC Beardsley Community Farm is happy to announce a day of workshops—SkillShare. We hope to bring together individuals with different levels of experience in gardening for a day of learning and connecting. We have three workshops scheduled for the fall SkillShare; please see the following for more in-depth descriptions. Activities will be provided for kids, too! Bring the whole family for this fall community event.

To purchase tickets visit: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/205551

CAC Beardsley Community Farm is located at 1719 Reynolds Street, behind the Boys and Girls Club

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Schedule of Events

10:00 AM – Tour of CAC Beardsley Community Farm and refreshments

11:00 AM – Vermicomposting with Shannon Elliott

Participants will learn how to build a basic worm bin to compost moderate amounts of household kitchen scraps. Each person will take home a simple 5-gallon bucket sized worm bin and a handful of worms to get started. The workshop will discuss creating and maintaining a bin; worm health; potential problems; and uses for the finished vermicompost. Shannon has been composting with worms for 10 years and it is the best way to give seedlings and established plants a growing boost.

Brown Paper Ticket Cost: $10
Walk-in price: $15

1:00 PM – Basics of Beekeeping with Jeff Wyrosdick

Learn the basics of beginning beekeeping: honeybee ecology, start up needs, how to set up your hive, and general tasks for maintaining your hive year-round. Weather permitting, participants will have the opportunity to look inside the hive. Jeff Wyrosdick and his family have over 4,000 hives; Jeff has been keeping bees since 1959.

Spaces are limited so buy your ticket early!
Brown Paper Ticket Cost: $10
Walk-in price: $15

3:00 PM – Cold Weather Gardening with Khann Chov and the Beardsley Farm Team

CAC Beardsley Community Farm is holding a Cold Weather Gardening Workshop to give gardeners some tips for extending the growing season. The workshop will address cold weather growing techniques, with a primary focus on building low-tunnels and cold frames with salvaged materials. In addition to showing how these systems are built, workshop attendees will also get some tips on when and what to plant in early spring and late fall.

Brown Paper Ticket Cost: $5
Walk-in price: $8

Advance tickets through Brown Paper Tickets for all three workshops: $22
Walk-in price for all three workshops: $30