July 17, Sat.: The Friends of Quiet Valley held their 2nd Annual Yard Sale to Benefit Quiet Valley

GREAT SUCCESS!
Last year’s sale was a huge success raising $3,000 and this year topped it! Many thanks to all the Quiet Valley members who did a little “Spring Cleaning” and those who did the prepwork and run the sale and helped make this happen!

Soup Making Days! - please help

We need to make gallons and gallons of our great homemade soup for Harvest Festival -

Wednesday, August 4, starting at 9am to about 1pm - Vegetable Soup - all the goodies from our garden. Bring your favorite knife or use one of ours.

Wednesday, August 11 starting at 9am - Chicken Corn Chowder (if the weather cooperates with the corn)

Summer 2010 Volunteer Opportunities

Mark your calendars now!! We can use help for all these:

Music in the Valley - Saturday July 10th - our fourth annual
New this year - Sunday the 12th enjoy learning about music traditions and more. Good old-fashion, traditional music played around the farm. There will be hands-on opportunities and sing-a-longs for the children.

Heritage Craft Day - Saturday August 7th - our fourth annual
A day to watch heritage crafts being demonstrated and an opportunity to try them out for yourself.

Pocono State Crafts Festival - Saturday & Sunday August 28 & 29
Quiet Valley is the host site for this event. There will be no regular tours these days, but lots of fine art and crafts. There is an admission charge for all attendees including Quiet Valley members.

Down on the Farm - - -

Summer Highlights - - -

Please contact Deb DiPasquale with any questions about these volunteer opportunities or others you may think we need. Remember - Quiet Valley can’t succeed without our wonderful volunteers. You can reach me at deb@quietvalley or 570-992-6161.

Harvest Festival Happenings

Everlastings

Thursday Arranging Workshops:
Workshops will be held on Thursday’s in September to create the dried flower arrangements, wreaths and swags that will be sold at Festival. Dried flowers, containers, wreath bases and other supplies are provided. All you need to bring is your creativity and lunch. No formal instruction is provided during these workshops, but several very talented and faithful volunteers are typically on hand to lend a creative eye and/or suggestion.
• Workshop Dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30
• Time: 10 am- 2 pm
• Location: Top of the Oiler’s Garage

Weed Bunching Party: Thursday, 10/7
Help is needed the Thursday prior to Festival to make weed bunches. If you’re not sure that you have the skill or creativity for making arrangements but have always wanted to try, then making weed bunches is a perfect opportunity! 80-100 bunches are needed to fill the rafters of the Open Front Barn, so all weed bunchers or weed buncher want-to-be’s, are welcomed!
• Time: 9 am- 4 pm (or any portion of this time)
• Location: Open Front Barn

Barn Set Up & Halo Base Making: Friday, 10/8
On the Friday prior to Festival, volunteers are needed to relocate all of the arrangements to the Open Front Barn and create Sweet Annie halo bases. Sweet Annie halo’s are always a big hit and have made Sweet Annie the farm’s #1 cash crop. Having the bases made in advance, helps to ensure that our halo decorators can keep up with decorating demands during Festival. No halo base making experience is needed, but Sweet Annie is quite fragrant, so if you have allergies this might not be the best pick for you.
• Time: 9 am- 4 pm (or any portion of this time)
• Location: Open Front Barn

Clean Up: Monday, 10/11
The Monday after Festival we need help to clean up the Open Front Barn area and top of Oiler’s garage so that we can put everything neatly away for the winter. This helps to keep Pa Oiler happy… need I say more?
• Time: 9 am- 1 pm (or any portion of this time)
• Location: Open Front Barn

Other Help Needed!

TRADING POST - will need good quality crafts. Remember that they need to be crafts appropriate to the farm - no plastics please. All items should be brought to the farm on either Wednesday, October 6th or Thursday, October 7th between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

GOD’S HALF ACRE - needs homemade jams, jellies, pickles, relishes, applesauce and any other canned goods you would like to contribute. It can also use any extra vegetables that might be left over from your own garden. Also needed are pumpkins and gourds.

SET-UP DAYS - will be on Saturdays, September25th and October 2nd from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. We will be putting up tents, washing windows, cleaning out the ticket booth and open barn, raking leaves and walnuts and doing many other job. Please bring a lunch; drinks will be provided.

APPLE PEELING - Wednesday, October 6th from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. & Thursday, October 7th from 8:30 to 12:00. We need to peel and core apples for both apple pies and apple butter. Bring your lunch; drinks will be provided.

PIE BAKING - Thursday, October 7th from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. We need to bake about 20 apple, 20 shoofly and 20 pumpkin pies. Bring a lunch; beverages are provided; dessert is pie, of course!

SAUSAGE PATTY MAKING - Thursday, October 7th at 6:30 p.m. Many hands definitely make this job lighter, so please come in old clothes and help out. When we are done we will have a supper of our freshly made sausage patties. Come join the fun!

PIE AND CAKE BOOTH - We need a large amount of gooey, yummy desserts for this area, in addition to the apple, pumpkin and shoofly pies that we make on the farm. Desserts can be brought to the Education Center on Friday, October 8th during the day or with you when you come to work during festival. Cherry or blueberry pies, lemon meringue or lemon sponge pie, banana or coconut cream pies, brownies, cakes, chewy chocolate caramel bars, whatever is delicious and full of calories!!

CLEAN-UP DAY - VERY IMPORTANT!! - Monday, October 11th from 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. We need many hands to get the farm back to normal , which includes taking down signs and tents, moving all the food and demonstration supplies up to the Ed Center, taking down the fire pits and a host of other jobs. Help on this day is so vital. School children will be back on the farm by the following Monday. Please come out and lend a hand. We really need you!

We have jobs not mentioned and some can be done at times other than listed.
Call the Farm at 992-6161, because we have a job for you!
Don’t forget to sign up to work somewhere at Festival….

Membership Renewal

Click here to go to the Membership Page for more information and a Membership Form.

Harvest Festival Chair Opening - We are looking for a well organized, people oriented person or persons to work with Deb DiPasquale, Marketing and Events Director to coordinate Harvest Festival.