Events
The year, as we keep it.
The store is open all year. Around it the calendar follows the county — plant sale when the ground thaws, field day when it's hot, Chester Greenwood when it's absolutely not.
Season by season
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Summer 2026
Youth-led pop-up shops
Changemakers take their products out to markets, fairs and community events across the region. If you run a market and want a youth booth, tell us.
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Growing season
Whittier Road farmstand
Whatever the Agriculture & Culinary team has grown, sold by the people who grew it.
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Annual
Changemaker Award Ceremony
One night a year when we name out loud what each of them did. Bring tissues.
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The seasonal calendar
Four seasons, and we mean it.
Some of these have run for years. Some are new. All of them are staffed, at least in part, by someone under eighteen.
Fall
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Apple Pie Bakeoff
Bring a pie. Accept the verdict.
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Pumpkin carving
On the Whittier Road grass, before it gets too cold to hold a knife.
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Gourd drying
A slow craft. Good for the kind of kid who likes slow crafts.
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Witch broom workshop
Exactly what it says.
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Veterans Day Field of Flags
With the American Legion and our veteran community.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Trot
Run it off first.
Winter
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Chester Greenwood Celebration
Farmington invented earmuffs. We are not going to be quiet about it.
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Wreath making
On Main Street, in the snow, with cocoa.
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Tree lighting
The whole street turns out.
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Skating
A rink or a pond, depending on what the winter gives us.
Spring
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Easter egg hunt
For the small ones.
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Mother's Day event
Youth-made gifts, sold by the people who made them.
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Plant sale
Seedlings started by the Agriculture & Culinary team.
Summer
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Field Day
Sack race, dunk tank, the works.
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Father's Day BBQ
Bring an appetite.
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July 4th celebration
Downtown.
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Hot summer water event
Self-explanatory in August.
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Music event
Outdoors, at the campus.
Previously
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Some of what's already happened.
Want to host, help or bring a booth?
Events here run on volunteers. If you've got a Saturday, we've got a job.