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Summer 2018 Newsletter Volunteer Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Summer 2018 Page 1 Summer 2018 Newsletter Inside This Issue Page 1 – Volunteer Award Banquet Page 7 – Anne Arundel Bird Club Happenings… Page 2 – Volunteer for the Fall Harvest Festival Page 9 – Visit the Woodland Garden Page 3 – We Don’t Want No Naked Scarecrows Page 10 – Blue Bird Monitors Needed Page 3 – Temporarily Under New Supervision Page 11 – A New/Old Tractor Page 3 – Farm Education Livestock News Page 13 – Pieced Together Page 4 – Tips from the Chartwell Garden Club Page 14 – Fall Harvest Festival Page 5 – The Genesis of the Friends of Kinder Page 15 – Life in the Park Photo Competition Farm Park Page 16 – FoKFP 12 Month Calendar Page 6 – Summer at the Apprentice Garden Page 18 – Business and Organization Support Online viewing feature: You can control-click on the title in the index and go directly to the article. Volunteer Award Banquet present this would be the last time we By Mike Lowman, Friends of Kinder Farm Park Board Member would see Paul, This year’s who passed away a Volunteer Banquet few weeks later. took place on a Hosts Bill Offutt beautiful Friday and Carrie Fielder evening on the 1st presented the following awards: of June at the River Birch Pavilion. Special Friends Award: This annual event The FoKFP Farm Education Livestock Groups is given to thank volunteers for their continued This group of families that care for our permanent support of the Kinder Farm Park. This year, to breeding livestock here at the park and help assure everyone’s delight, Mission Barbeque catered the that our 4H have access to affordable animals for food. their projects. Additionally, the families work on After bellies were full, it was time to present special projects that improve the farm by adding new recognition awards to individuals and groups for shelters and pastures for the animals. their efforts. Good Neighbor Award: This year’s presentations began with a very special Maryland Farm Bureau presentation of an Anne Arundel County For continuing support of the Farm Education Citation to Paul Downey in appreciation for the Committee's projects through a series of grants over use of his knowledge and wood crafting skills to the past several years. support the park over the years. For most of those (Continues on next page) Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Summer 2018 Page 2 Volunteer Award Banquet (Cont.) Volunteer Family Award: The Christie Family For their outstanding service to the Farm Education Committee and the Friends over Volunteer for the Fall Harvest Festival the last several years. Mark your calendar, this year’s Fall Harvest Festival is on Saturday, October 13th. This event is Golden Horseshoe Award: the Friends of Kinder Farm Park’s biggest fund Karen Haghighi raiser of the year and planning and preparing for the Karen’s influential impact on the Friends in the past event takes several months. However, the real key year is laying the groundwork for the Sponsorship to the continued success of the festival is the program, which is providing a structured way that volunteers that help out on the day of the event. businesses and groups can help to achieve so much It takes roughly 400 volunteers (7th grade to Adult) more at the park. Karen is a person you can depend working various length shifts between 9:00 AM and on to always be there to help-out, over the past 5:00 PM, helping with games, crafts, selling tickets several years she has served on the Fall Harvest and volunteer food. Volunteering for the Fall Planning committee helping to find food vendors Harvest Festival is a great opportunity to give back and assuring they have their licenses. Additionally, to the park in appreciation for all that it offers over the past couple years she has helped with the throughout the year. Jingle Bell Hayride and the Zombie Fun Run. It only takes a few minutes to access and submit the Forever Vigilant Award: volunteer form from our website at www.kinderfarmpark.org, and use the following Chris Mowery instructions (if you are viewing this article Chris is one of those persons who are always there electronically, skip to step 4): when needed, as secretary she goes beyond just 1. Select the menu item labeled Support, taking notes and is in the process of documenting which will display a sub-menu how the Friends operate; as our webmaster she 2. Select Volunteer, a page of Volunteer keeps our site updated and responds quickly to Opportunities displays requests, and, if she is not on the planning 3. Scroll down to view the section for the committee for an event, you can be sure she will be Annual Fall Harvest Festival. at the event to lend a hand. 4. In the very last sentence of the section Golden Hammer Award: which reads: To help the day of the event> select Volunteer Here, the 2018 Kinder Steve Keefer and Dave Barry Farm Park Fall Harvest Festival Volunteer Steve and Dave are the go-to handymen for the Form displays Kinder Family Farmhouse Museum, taking care of 5. Complete the requested information on the odd jobs that recently included replacing the floor in form and select Submit at the end of the the second-floor kitchen area and painting the room. form (Continues on next page) Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Summer 2018 Page 3 Volunteer…(Cont.) Kinder Farm Park. And, Park Ranger Ockeem Ellis is the Acting Supervisor at Downs Park. If you have been on the fence about volunteering for the Fall Harvest Festival, here are a couple These temporary assignments should last about thoughts that might help push you off the fence. In three months until a permanent replacement for the morning volunteers are treated to coffee, tea, hot Chief of Park Operations is hired. chocolate, juices, donuts and fresh fruit. At lunch time they can enjoy a a hot dog (or two), a bag of chips and a snack. And at the end of the day, after clean-up volunteers can enjoy pizza in the Visitors Center. School age volunteers can earn credit for community service hours. And then there is the self- satisfaction of knowing you have helped people enjoy a day at the park. We Don’t Want No Naked Scarecrows By Mike Lowman, Friends Board Member www.alexanderanimalhospital.com Another way that you can help with the Fall Harvest Festival is to donate any old long sleeve shirts and long pants to help cloth the scarecrows that folks can 410-777-8678 make at the festival. We certainly don’t want any naked 160 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD 21146 scarecrows at the festival, this Monday – Friday: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM is a family event. Saturday: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM If you have some old shirts and/or pants you would like to donate, please drop them off in the box at the Farm Education Livestock News Kinder Farm Park Visitors Center which is open By Roy Fielder, Farm Education Livestock Group Leader weekdays (except Tuesdays when the park and This summer has been quite busy for the Farm office are closed), from 9 AM – 4 PM, weekends 10 Education group. We are finished with building AM – 3 PM. and setting up of the rabbit house. We also welcomed our first litter of bunnies. Temporarily Under New Supervision Total of seven As of July 23, 2018, Kinder Farm Park has been little ones that still under new supervision as Bill Offutt fills the Anne have their eyes Arundel County Department of Recreation and closed. Parks position as the Acting Chief of Park The quail are laying Operations. plenty of eggs and have become a big draw with the In turn, Nolley Fisher the Supervisor of Downs Park people that visit the park. is temporally assigned as the Acting Supervisor of (Continues on next page) Friends of Kinder Farm Park Newsletter – Summer 2018 Page 4 Farm Ed. News (Cont.) trees and shrubs which had browned out and had nd some dead branches have come back sooner than We have bred Dot the pig for a November 2 birth. expected. On the down side many seeds did not We struggled this time getting her bred. She did not germinate, and some seedlings rotted in the cold, cooperate at all. wet soil. It is always best to wait until conditions are favorable. On a better note, Snickerdoodle the heifer was bred, and I feel real good about her chances. Look for a Visitors to the Kinder Farm Park have asked about calf in March. the peonies planted in the farm house garden. Peonies are among the most dramatic spring We also have some of the goats working on clearing perennials. Peonies mile-a-minute vine in the back of the park. Gazelle prefer a rich, well the dairy goat should give birth early in August. drained, neutral soil Helen the Park Ranger did a great on the park in full sun. Peonies are not native. The program about goats in July. In addition, a goat and old flowers are a couple chickens visited Anne Arundel Community unattractive and College for their Kids at the Farm program. should be removed to discourage disease. We were also honored to be awarded group of the Red flowers are year by the Friends of KFP and The Christie family particularly won family of the year and deservedly so. We have susceptible. Even if worked hard this spring and summer to make the foliage begins to everyone’s visit to the Park a memorable one.
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