October 4-5, 2025

Farming for Freedom Trail

FREEDOM WEEKEND

Get Your Tickets

The Farming for Freedom Trail FREEDOM WEEKEND includes two days of celebration, shared dinner and presentations, and activities at each farm. Each farm hosts a gathering with activities and opportunities to volunteer and purchase products from the farm. Freedom Weekend participants from the community and outside Ithaca enjoy eating and drinking, touring, and making merry at each farm. Live music, arts and crafts for children, and farm workshops are provided along the way!

There will be farm visits on Saturday and Sunday. Visitors will meet the farmers and their farms and get their trail passport stamped as they go, eating and drinking and learning about each farm's unique history and work.

Farm Visits

Craig & Debbie Livermore
Nature walks on 3 miles of trails, and a workshop on land and ancestral connection.
Music and food: plant-based pies!
Party with us and plant some trees! Story sharing by Chino Hardin, founder of NuLegacy
Chuck & Madi Aldridge
Enjoy local food and animal care lessons
Terrance and Keyanna Vann
Free range your children, dance, eat, drink, and stroll the forest

Farm Tours and Delicious Food
Sarah Gotowka
Hands-on botanical printing experience on silk scarves to take home
Juliana Quaresma
Needle felting demonstration and Icelandic sheep visit
Joe and Wendy Rizzo
Tastings and more!

Where To Pick Up Tickets

To pick up your tickets, trail passports, and swag bag:

visit Sustainable Passion in Downtown Ithaca on

Friday afternoon 4-7pm

or

Saturday morning 9-11am

Sustainable Passion

311 N Meadow St, Ithaca, NY 14850

(607) 280-5950

Farm addresses will be provided in the trail passport

Schedule

Please see your ticket and passport for details on each farm’s address and time.

Saturday & Sunday October 5th & 6th ~ Farm tours and activities

Loving Farms

Nature walks on 3 miles of trails, and a workshop on land and ancestral connection. Music and food with plant-based pies. *wear layers and boots or semi-waterproof shoes*

NuLegacy The People’s Land

Farm work party and story sharing by Chino Hardin, founder of NuLegacy *wear layers and boots or semi-waterproof shoes*

Jasper Meadows Farm

Eat, drink, be merry, and enjoy the land *wear layers and boots or semi-waterproof shoes. We will have booties to slip on over your boots to protect the chickens from farmland cross-contamination*

The Learning Farm

Free range children paint party while you eat, drink, dance, and stroll the forest *wear layers and boots or semi-waterproof shoes*

Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming

Farm tour and Burmese food sampling.

Luna Fiber Studio

Dye farm tour and hands-on botanical printing experience. Participants will create and take home your own natural-dyed silk scarf!

Viva Acres

Needle felting demonstration and Icelandic sheep visit.

Mushroom Spirits Distillery

Tastings and high spirits downtown to close the festivities out with a splash!