Remember a post from a while back that referenced the Burundi Farmers who started a farm project on a parcel on New Street in Decatur?

Well it’s comin’ on harvest time in the South, and you know what that means.  It’s festival time!

Buy your tickets HERE for the October 23rd “Our Community Farm Project” Harvest Festival and Picnic and head over to the New Street urban farm “for a celebration, featuring Burundi and regional African cuisine, restaurant-sponsored side dishes, and a ceremonial roasting of an animal. The event will also feature farm tours, a farm stand, music performed by refugee artists, locally created crafts, a lucky numbers auction, face painting, henna, and a children’s garden activity.”

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 after October 20th.  Children tickets are $10 a pop.  The farm is located at 121 Sams St, next to Avondale MARTA Station.  More info on tickets and the “Our Community Farm Project” can be found HERE.

If you can’t make the event, but would still like to support these farmers in our community, there’s currently a wish list of items you can donate on their website.  The list currently includes: 5 gallon buckets, compost thermometer probe, hanging scale, chain link fencing, bales of hay, organic fertilizer, shovels, hoes, pitchforks or other garden tools.

Thanks to Andisheh for the event info!

THIS is great.

Our Community Farm Project is located at 121 Sams Street in Decatur, GA. We are a start-up, urban farm led by experienced Burundi farmers who’ve come to metro-Atlanta as refugees and supported by a group of Burundi women, joining together to grow food, exchange farming knowledge, and to develop a greater understanding of farming practice in the ATLanta area. The farm will also provide the families who are often facing food security risks with healthy food for their tables.

Our Goal: Working in partnership with Susan Pavlin and Refugee Family Services, our mission is to provide these women with practical farm experience, workshops and trips to local farmers markets in order to create new opportunities in production, distribution and marketing.

Stop by their blog for recent updates and pics – including the one above – of their latest efforts and harvests. 

Thanks to “For the Birds” for forwarding. (for, for, for!)