Mother’s Day Celebration: Honoring Corn Mother (Make • Taste • Plant)

🌽💐 A Celebration of Mothers

Mother’s Day is a celebration of love, nourishment, and the many ways care is given through families, community, and the earth itself. In many traditions, Corn Mother is honored as a life-giver: a symbol of abundance, nourishment, and the sacred relationship between people, seeds, and soil.

At Cultivating Connections Montana, we’re gathering on Mother’s Day to celebrate corn as a teacher and a gift and to honor all forms of mothering: mothers, grandmothers, aunties, mentors, caregivers, and anyone who helps life and love grow.

This is a family-friendly, farm-fest style event with hands-on activities, storytelling, food-making, and planting you can take home (or help distribute to others).

✨ What You’ll Do (Activities)

Drop in, wander, and join activities at your own pace. There will be multiple stations running throughout the event:

Hands-On Stations

• Corn Husk Doll Making + Storytelling
  Make a traditional-style corn husk doll and enjoy stories that celebrate corn, gratitude, and seasonal connection.

• Freshly-made Corn Tortilla & Snack Tasting
  Enjoy tasting fresh corn tortillas while learning the basics of turning corn into something delicious and also enjoy other yummy snacks!

  Seed Mandala Making
  Create a beautiful, meditative seed mandala design ~ an artful way to reflect on abundance and the cycle of life.

• Origami Flower Making ~ fold beautiful paper blooms to take home (all ages welcome).

• “All Things Corn” Mini-Talk
  A fun corn chat about its history, varieties, uses, and why corn remains a cornerstone food around the world.

• Three Sisters Seeding (Corn • Beans • Squash)
  Plant Three Sisters seeds into cups to take home! Starts not taken home can be shared or distributed so more gardens can grow across our community.

🌱 Bonus: Guests are welcome to tour the farm during the event and soak in the amazing views of the Bitterroot Valley surrounding the farm!

🦆🐓 Farm Tour + Animal Visits

This gathering takes place on a living, working farm. You’re invited to enjoy the beauty of the land and meet the farm residents: ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys, pigs, and goats.

Please note: Animals may be moved or resting depending on farm needs and animal welfare. So remember our farm-animal mottoes are: "When animals rest, be a quiet guest" and "Don’t chase birds. They like quieter words".

🎟️ What Your Ticket Supports and Impacts

Your ticket purchases help Cultivating Connections Montana Build Community Through Food and strengthens our local programs that make farming, food, and learning accessible to more people in the Bitterroot Valley.

Ticket sales directly support CCMT programs like:

• our Youth Internship program (paid, purpose-driven learning for local teens)

• MAYDAY! Gardens (free or by-donation garden starts and kits that help families grow food at home)

• Greenhouse Share (seedling starts that expand local growing capacity and food resilience)

• GIVEBACK! / Ladles of Love community food initiatives (food-making and sharing for neighbors facing food scarcity)

When you buy a ticket, you’re not just going to have a fun day ... you’re helping grow skills, confidence, access, and connection for youth and families.

👟 Important Info: Working Farm Guidelines (Please Read)

This event is hosted on a working farm, which is beautiful and also comes with real-world farm conditions.

What to Wear / Bring

• Close-toed shoes required (uneven ground and farm materials)

• Weather-ready layers (sun, wind, and spring conditions)

• Optional: water bottle, picnic blanket or camp chair for relaxing

Farm Safety + Hazards

Please be safe around & aware of:

• uneven ground, mud, irrigation hoses

• farm tools and equipment

• fences/gates

• animals and animal areas (manure, feed, and farm materials)

• hot surfaces / cooking tools at the tortilla station

Kids & Supervision

All children are welcome to enjoy the farm! For safety:

• All minors must be supervised by an adult at all times.

• Please do not climb fences or enter restricted areas.

• Do not feed animals unless a host gives permission.

• Handwashing is encouraged, especially after animal visits.

🌦 Weather Plan

This is a rain-or-shine style farm celebration. Some stations may move under cover depending on weather. If conditions become unsafe prior to the event (heavy smoke, extreme weather), we’ll communicate updates to ticket holders via email.

♿ Accessibility Notes

The farm includes natural terrain (grass, gravel, uneven ground). We will do our best to make key activities accessible. If you have accessibility needs, please reach out ahead of time so we can support you.

📍 Location / Arrival

Celebration Location: Cultivating Connections Montana at the Homestead Organics Farm campus, 175 Skalkaho Hwy, Hamilton MT
Parking: Parking at the farm is limited. Overflow parking is available at Canyon View Church, just south of the farm

📩 Questions? Email: Connect@CultivatingConnectionsMT.org
Website: CultivatingConnectionsMT.org