Festival on The Farm event; Mason-Dixon Country hosts occasion

     On May 22, the third annual Festival on The Farm event will be hosted at Fawn View Farm in Pylesville, Maryland. This event is a free community event available to anyone who wants to attend and is family friendly. 

     The event is hosted by Amy Boegner and Mason-Dixon Country. The event will be going on from 11-4 PM. There will be an open-air market with many local artisans and farmers market vendors. Music will be played live and there will be food served regularly. Some of the food options include food served from food trucks, funnel cakes, ice cream and more.

     The food trucks selling at this event include, “the DoughSlingers funnel cakes, Fawn View Farms brand new ice cream truck, [and] Smithsons Pit Beef,” Boegner mentions. Some of the local farms will be selling their produce at this event are Apocalypse farm, Fawn View, Crooked Creek, Spore and Seed, according to Boegner.

     There are also going to be many vendors selling “jewelry, cakes, sea glass, home decor, sweets, and snacks,” she says. Due to covid, Boegner claims, “The total [number of] vendors I have at the moment is 35, I plan to close this out today in order to keep numbers lower than normal.” As for NHHS students attending, Boegner says, “There will be NHHS students in attendance through the FFA alumni, unfortunately, the school can not participate directly at this time due to covid restrictions.”

     Eats and Sweets will also be presenting a live farm-to-table cooking demo using local ingredients, according to Boegner. For children, there will be a designated kids area with crafts and animal balloons. She says that the children’s area is, “geared towards farm education of animal care and farm-to-table food. Free wagon tours of a local dairy farm will be offered as well to children or anyone. The activities at this event cater to all ages. 

     Boegner mentions, “I have met a lot of great people through Mason-Dixon Country.” She says, “I can’t take credit for the start of Festival on The Farm, my predecessor began the festival, I took over the position and kept the event going with more focus on farming and shopping local as opposed to flea market style.”

     Boegner shares that the most enjoyable part of the event is, “the opportunity to bring consumer awareness to the benefits of shopping local- keeping funds within the community and cutting down on transportation and storage for a better environment.” She adds, “There are a lot of great small businesses and farms in the area and the opportunity to provide them a space to present their goods and grow their businesses is a perk to my job.”