Event Program
Treat your taste buds to a sampling of free food prepared by Executive Chef Scott Commings. Find your way to a thirst-quenching tent featuring local beers and wines, and linger for a leisurely afternoon set to the backdrop of live music. Your celebration of a fall harvest awaits!
Learn about the Retreat and Ecology Campus’s educational and environmental features, including our sustainable farm (complete with garden, bee-keeping, chickens, and composting), restoration efforts, Challenge Course, and more.
In addition, enjoy the following planned events:
Tours
- Facility
- Restoration
- Challenge course
- Farm (garden, chickens, bees, worm composting)
Activities
Harvest Festival will offer fun for all ages, including:
- Bonfire
- Helping hand with harvest
- Pressing cider
- Apple stamps
- Leaf tracing
- Face painting
- Pumpkin painting
- Wheat processing
- Shed painting
- Build a scarecrow
- Frisbees/bags sets
- Sticker art (great for young kids)
Retail
- Loyola farmer's market
- Apple cider sampling
- T-shirt sale
