The annual Farming for Freedom Trail FREEDOM WEEKEND includes three days of celebration, shared food and drink, presentations, and hands-on activities at each farm. Farms are based in the Ithaca, New York area. Each farm hosts a gathering with activities and opportunities to learn, volunteer, and purchase farm products. Freedom Weekend is open to all, including Ithaca locals and visitors from afar. Participants enjoy eating and drinking, touring, and making merry at each farm. Music, dance, arts & crafts for children, and hands-on farm workshops are provided along the way!

There will be farm visits on Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday, and the weekend will end on Sunday afternoon with a film screening at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca. Throughout the weekend participants will visit farms and get their trail passport stamped as they go, learning about each farm's unique history and work from the farmers themselves.

Farm Visits

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

Party with us, plant some trees, and enjoy story sharing about our land and work! — Wear layers and boots or semi-waterproof shoes

Jasper Meadows Farm

Animal husbandry activities. — 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

Welcome dinner, line dancing in the barn, waterfall meditation, and alpaca walks. — Wear layers and boots or semi-waterproof shoes

Viva Acres

Needle felting demonstration and Icelandic sheep visit.

N’dor Ecovillage

Hands-on agroforestry activities.