Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sunday, June 18, 2023 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Juneteenth Tours Join the Peter Wentz Farmstead in observation of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of Black enslaved people in America. UGR3DAY Conductor Dee Patterson will be here at 10:00 am on Saturday,
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Saturday, February 25th and Saturday, March 4th from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Maple Sugaring Join our farmers as they create maple sugar from trees right here at the Farmstead! Watch as they tap the trees, collect the sap, and create the syrup. Learn about the Indigenous origins of maple sugaring and how the process
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Peter Wentz Farmstead’s Candlelight Event Saturday, December 3, 2021 from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm Lansdale, PA – Come spend a lovely winter’s eve with us at the Peter Wentz Farmstead’s annual Candlelight Event! The soft glow of candles will light your way as you explore this historic property. Celebrate the beginning of the holiday
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Keeping Seeds and the Stories They Tell Amirah Mitchell Founder, Sistah Seeds Join us to learn from Amirah Mitchell, a Philadelphia-based farmer and the founder of Sistah Seeds, a small seed-production farm that focuses on seed production of West African, Afro-Caribbean and African American heirloom vegetables and grains. Seed saving, says Amirah, is taking seeds
MoreIllustration by Kailey Whitman Whitewashing History interview by Heather Shayne Blakeslee For centuries, Americans have conflated whiteness with cleanliness. It’s so thoroughly ingrained in our culture that even during the 2007 presidential election, Joe Biden tried—and failed spectacularly—to compliment presidential candidate Barack Obama by describing him as “clean and articulate.” In his book “Clean and
Moreby Hannah Waters As the November chill sets in, it’s tempting to turn on the heat, lock the doors and curl up under a blanket for the long winter ahead. The reasons to go into an early hibernation practically invent themselves: it’s too cold; bundling up is too burdensome; the couch cushions are too alluring.
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