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[Bill London]

MaryJanesFarm Sponsors Farm Fair 

Everyone is invited to the second annual Farm Fair at MaryJanesFarm, on Saturday, July 2, from 11am to 6pm, and Sunday, July 3, from 11am to 4pm.  Admission is free for children under 16, and $3 for all adults.  

Admission includes self-guided tours of the farm, face-painting and other children's activities, a hog-calling contest, hopscotch, and a full schedule of musical entertainment.  In addition, vendors will be offering antiques and farm collectibles, fresh vegetables and flowers, and prepared lunches.

MaryJanesFarm is located eight miles southeast of Moscow, and is the home and business headquarters for MaryJane Butters and the organic prepared food business she created there in 1990.  Her book, "MaryJane's Ideabook, Cookbook, and Lifebook for the Farmgirl in all of us," was recently released by Random House.

Musical entertainment will be headlined by Beargrass, the Watkins family country and bluegrass dance band from Deary, Idaho.  Julie and Delvin Watkins, with their son Shayne and his wife Alane, have played together for four years, and recorded their first CD, "Storm Moon," in 2003.

Sharing the stage will be Noi and Friends from Moscow, featuring 11 year old Noi Yocum, who has been playing violin professionally since age 7.  With her father, Cleve Yocum, on button accordion and mandolin, and Dave Bezdicek, playing guitar, Noi plays old American and Irish reels and jigs.

Champion fiddle player Mabel Vogt of Potlatch is also scheduled to perform at Farm Fair.  Vogt will be playing old-time fiddle music.  Dick Warwick of Oakesdale will recite his heartland poetry.  Ray Gillis, an 8 year old from Pullman, will be performing his Celtic dancing. 

The MaryJanesFarm u-pick fields will be available for those who want to gather the rare Sweet Lena super-fragrant iris, lettuce, peas, strawberries, or garlic scapes.  Garlic scapes are the tender flowerstalks that curl from garlic plants this time of year. 

The favorite food from the inaugural fair last year will be returning: an all-organic strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream and fresh strawberries.

Self-guided tours of the farm will be encouraged, and free maps will be available. A 4,000 square foot tent will be set up to house the vendors and entertainment stage, so rain won't dampen the fun. Lawn chairs or picnic blankets are suggested.

MaryJanesFarm and the Farm Fair are located about eight miles southeast of Moscow.  Head east from Moscow on Highway 8, toward Troy. Two miles from Moscow, turn right onto Lenville Road. From there you can follow the signs over Paradise Ridge on Blaine Road to the farm on Wild Iris Lane. 

For more information, call Dory at 208-882-6819 or see the website, www.maryjanesfarm.org. 

 
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