Oh Christmas Tree Event

Come and enjoy a special festive lunch at Alderlea
Farm Café.  After lunch, Farmer John will take your
family on a tractor ride to Middlemas Christmas Tree
Farm to choose and cut your beautiful Christmas tree.
Enjoy a delicious roast turkey or pizza luncheon.
Christmas Tree in the Cowichan ValleyADULTS                                                                           $15.00
CHILDREN                                                                       $7.50
TRACTOR RIDE and CHRISTMAS TREE is only  $40.00

 

 

Please reserve your date for this special family event:

Sunday, December 18th     12:00 pm or 1:30 pm
Saturday, December 24th  12:00 pm or 1:30 pm
The beautiful Christmas trees at Middlemas are premium trees and sustainably grown.

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7th Annual Borscht Festival

Saturday, Sept. 17
11:00 am -5:30 pm

Enter your best borscht in our tasty competition or just come be your own judge.
Judging will begin at 12:00 noon, contact us at Alderlea Farm to enter.

Borscht at Alderlea Farm

  • Music and dancing with Orkestar Slavonika!
  • Borscht Cooking Demonstration
  • Farm parade led by Farmer John, Jersey the Cow, and our borscht competition champion.
  • Hayrides for all

Admission: $3/individual, $10/family

Click here to download poster: Alderlea Farm Borscht Festival

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Father’s Day at Alderlea

     Alderlea Farm Café
Special Four Course Farm Luncheon
Father’s Day
Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Reservations Required
 

Alderlea Father's Day Fun

Roast Organic Beef and Potatoes
or
Vegetarian Lasagne
or
Freshly made Pizza for the Whole Family
 or
 Smokies on the Barbeque
All menu selections include soup, salad, and desert.  Mostly all ingredients are certified organic and from the farm

The family friendly farm and café is a wonderful place to celebrate

 

For reservations call 250-715-0799

or email johnkaty@shaw.ca

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Mother’s Day at Alderlea

Mother’s Day

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Stinging Nettle Festival 2011

Bernice, Master Herbalist, on the Nettle walk

Bernice just got stung

Freek leads the hay rides

The Stinging Nettle Wine was better than the Dandelion Wine, imho.

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Stinging Nettle Festival Schedule

11:30a Stinging Nettle Walk with Farmer John and Master Herbalist Bernice Wollam
12:30a Stinging Nettle Wine Tasting and Demonstration with winemaker, Ray Bodnar
1-3p Marimba Bopoma
3p Stinging Nettle Gnocci Cooking Demo with Chef Linda

Children’s Activities—Hay rides, Magic forest, Baby Goat Petting

Lunch available in Farm Cafe– Stinging Nettle Soup, Quiche, Pasta, Pizza, Tea, Desserts, including Farmer Katy’s Pumpkin Pie!

Admission: $10 per family and $5 per Individuals
50% off for CSA members

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stinging nettle festival

Stinging Nettle Festival
Saturday
April 16
11 am – 4 pm

Welcome in Spring at Alderlea Farm CSA
Come and enjoy the wonders of Stinging Nettle

  • Enjoy delicious stinging nettle soup, pizza, pasta, tea and dessert in the Cafe.
  • Brew Stinging Nettle wine.
  • Walk and talk about Stinging Nettle.
  • Stinging Nettle cooking demonstration.
  • Children’s activities.

Marimba music by BOPOMA

Proceeds towards the purchase of deer fencing to support Community Supported Agriculture at Alderlea Farm.

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