Support Local and your favorite Town Farm! Our new logo wear is in and would make a great gift for everyone on your holiday shopping list.
Please email to for pricing and pick up options. www.wakemantownfarm@gmail.com
Our Broken Food System: Pathways to Permaculture
Our food system is broken. Learn how greenhouse gas from monoculture farming is contributing to climate change. Join us for a discussion about how changing our agricultural practices can lessen the damaging effects. The talk will span soil microbiology, agricultural policy, climate change, grass-fed animal agriculture and a bit of history.
Join Kelsey Brennan for a discussion on the Challenges and Opportunities for American Food Production.
This Lecture is Free and appropriate for all ages, but please register HERE
Kelsey Brennan has bachelor's in Sustainable Agriculture and Global Development from UConn and an MS in Crop and Soil Environmental Science at Virginia Tech
Christmas Tree Sale- One Day ONLY!!
Sat December 7, 10-4
Forget the hustle-bustle of the big box stores. Come to the Farm for a great selection of fresh Douglas Firs, supplied by our dear friends at Gilbertie’s and cut and tied on your car by Staples HS volunteers.
This local tree sale is a community effort that you can feel good about. Besides supporting a beloved local nursery, your purchase will also support educational scholarships at the Farm. You get a fresh local tree and you support local!
A win for all!
Wakeman Town Farm - 134 Cross Highway Westport
Holiday Tree Lighting- A Westport tradition!
You’re invited to the Annual Wakeman Town Farm Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration on Friday, Dec. 6 from 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m.
It’s a festive, fun and free event for the whole family. In addition to the bonfire, roasting marshmallows and hot cocoa, we’re featuring a variety of local school musicians playing some Christmas and Chanukkah favorites. Join us as we light up the Wakeman tree with fellow Westporters to kick off the season. And…if you’re able, “Be an Angel” and bring an unwrapped gift for the Farm's Al’s Angels Holiday Toy Collection Box.
Holiday Lighting 4:30-6 p.m.
4:30 - Long Lots and Green Farms Elementary School Musicians Play Holiday Tunes
4:45 - Tree Lighting
4:50 - Hot chocolate, cookies, and bonfire with marshmallows
6:00 - Happy Holidays & Goodnight!
Free and open to all!
Thai Noodle and Rice Soups
In this Fall Soup/Noodle Class with North Shutsharawan, Founder of Nit Noi, a local broth company that specializes in delicious and nutrient-rich broths and Thai soups, we will learn to create two soups (one noodle soup and one rice soup) using local organic bounty from area farms, including organic vegetables and pasture-raised animals.
Sorry, SOLD OUT
Holiday Hors D'Oeuvres
Get your party started with a master of the small bite, Festivities Executive Chef/Co-Owner Bill Kaliff.
This perfectly timed class will be focused on tray-passed hors d’oeuvres with a strong emphasis on organic garnishes--all well-suited to the season!
For More info and to register, Click HERE
Thanksgiving Pumpkin Centerpiece Workshop
Join us in the Barn at the Farm to make an incredible living centerpiece for your Thanksgiving table using specialty pumpkins and succulent plants. For more info and to register, click HERE
Tues. NOV. 5 Vacation Day Camp
Join chef Annalyce and Farm Instructor Chryse Terrill for a farm-based Election Day camp.
Chef Annalyce will be creating a yummy patriotic-themed dessert with the kids.
Chryse is planning to run an election poll for “favorite farm animal” and the kids will vote to name our feisty rooster.
Of course, the Farm will offer all the usual fun activities, including animal feeding and petting, games, and crafts.
$100
For more info and to register click HERE
Organic Veggie Gardening 101 – Essential Fall & Winter Prep
Nick Mancini, UConn master gardener, author of The Complete Organic Garden, and currently the guiding light at the Grace Farms community garden, will share his accumulated wisdom from decades of growing both fruits and vegetables organically. In this Pollinator Pathway Series talk, Nick will explain the fall and winter ‘must dos’ to have a successful organic veggie garden next summer.
This talk is FREE, but registration is requested.
Wood-Fired Oven Pizza Workshop
Join Kathy Oberman & Carl McNair for a workshop in pizza-making using our new Mugnaini wood-burning outdoor oven. We will make the dough in our kitchen and then go outside to bake the pizzas in the oven. Kids can join parents in the pizza making fun!
For more info and to register click HERE
Apple Pie Class with Pastry Chef Adrianna Robles
Join us in Tims Kitchen with pastry Chef Adrianna Robles of Good Morning Cupcake for a hands-on experience!
Please arrive 10 minutes prior to your class, as class will begin promptly at 11am. Feel free to hang out on the farm grounds prior to class. Children 8 and up must be accompanied by a parent.
For more info and to register, click HERE
Seed Saving 101 for pollinator health
Join local ethnobotanist Sefra Alexandra, The Seed Huntress & Executive Director of CT NOFA, Dina Brewster of The Hickories for an evening of hands-on native seed saving instruction for pollinator health
For more info and to register click HERE
Classic Empanadas!
We'll have a great morning making empanadas together with Chef Florencia Lipton, a Weston-based chef who has her own popular cottage Empanada business.
We will enjoy a lunch together with empanadas and a simple salad. And, all will go home with your own empanadas to share with the family at dinner! For more info and to register, click HERE
Oct. 28 10:00am-12pm
Rolling in the Dough
Kids from grades 3-5 will learn to make rolled, baked and dough-based goodies from near and far!
For more info and to register, click HERE
Putting the Garden to Bed: The Pollinator Friendly Way!
Put your garden to bed for the winter with Wakeman's Master Gardening Gurus! They will share tips on what to cut down and what to leave, how to properly recycle and compost the last greens as the garden prepares for its long winter nap.
For more info and to register for this FREE talk, click HERE
Little Farmers Class
Join us for an hour of quality time each week with your child on the Farm, while connecting with other children and parents in the community. Our amazing instructors will offer different farm and nature themes and activities .Choose the 9 a.m. or 10:30 a.m. start time.
For more info and to register, click HERE
Organic Gardenng with Sal Gilbertie
Come hear from the man who turned the home-grown herb industry on its ear, providing global flavors for home gardeners for 60+ years, and recently introduced Petite Edibles
For more info and to register, click HERE
Registration is FREE
Spooktacular Holiday Baking
Jr. Chefs will bake holiday cookies, pies and treats in one or more of our two-hour holiday-inspired classes, and learn a few cool culinary tips and tricks along the way. For more info or to register click HERE
Island Vacation Cooking
Re-create mouthwatering dishes from an Island resort with Chef Darlene Banks. Thursday, October 3 7-10pm
For more info and to register click HERE
ENCORE CLASS! A Taste of Bologna: Lasagna al Ragú
Join us for an encore class of our sold out Taste of Bologna: Lasagna al Ragú.
If you didn't have an Italian grandmother to teach you how to make classic lasagna, this is the place for you! Chef Vita Palmeri will walk you through all the steps of creating old-world style lasagna completely from scratch!
For more info and to register, click HERE