Feast in the Field- featuring Tim Fain Live at the Farm!

Join us on the Farm for a magical evening with the musical genius of Tim Fain, an amazing all Montana-grown dinner, our unique Re-Purpose Silent Auction, Farm Tours, and much more.

A unique Fundraiser to support Cultivating Connections Montana and our youth programming.

Join Cultivating Connections Montana (CCMT) and Tim Fain for a fantastic evening on the farm! Have fun and support our efforts to engage youth in agriculture and cooking to help expand local food production & food access, share knowledge, and put our mission of 'building community through food' into action.

*Treat your ears and heart to the creative genius of Tim Fain, world renowned Violinist and Composer!

*Enjoy a delicious all Montana Buffet Dinner Picnic featuring local meat, vegetarian specialties, as well as a scrumptious dessert.

*Contribute to and bid on the Silent Auction.

*Local Beer by Donation.

*Wine Wheel of Fortune!

*Explore the farm and get a taste of life on a working farm- meet the animals, admire the vegetables and flowers, and learn about and experience local food and agriculture in action.

*Hear from our Youth Farm and Food Interns and be inspired to support Cultivating Connections Montana!

Silent Auction!! RE-Cycle, RE-Use, RE-Gift: Bring your gently used treasures that you just don't use anymore. Share yours and Bid on theirs!

Ideas: Those lovely earrings your sister sent you from Bali, that painting that is in the closet, the namebrand jacket you never actually wear, that specialty kitchen tool that is just gathering dust, the pretty pottery bowl, the quilt, the garden tool, the birdfeeder, the houseplant, or the game or toy that are well kept but just need a new home... bring them along for the Silent Auction and help support our good works.

Bring your Silent Auction items along with you on Saturday the 12th, or drop off in advance at the FarmStand- If you cannot attend the show but have items for the Silent Auction, please drop them off at the FarmStand and everyone will enjoy-!

Important Information:

Parking - Parking is at Canyon View Church, just South of the farm. Thank you Canyon View Church for sharing your parking lot! Park at the church and walk about 100 yards to the Farm entrance. Mobility-impared parking available at the farm. Or, Drop-off then park.

Casual Attire - Please wear closed toed shoes! We recommend light-weight long pants, too. High Heels are strongly discouraged and won't be any fun.

Seating- Its picnic-style seating for the buffet dinner and the Tim Fain performance in and around the party tent. Bring your own blanket or lawn chair, sun hat, shades, and whatever else to be comfortable on the meadow.

No Dogs, please.

Timing- Doors Open at 5PM. Buffet Dinner starts at 6:30PM. Tim Fain Live at 7:30PM! Silent Auction closes 15 minutes after the end of Tim's performance.

Being Aware- Our working farm has weeds and thistles, uneven ground, sun and wind exposure, open water, insects, and all the other things that live in a wild place or on a working farm. Please dress accordingly so that you have the most fun possible. All participants take responsibility for themselves while attending this event and agree to hold harmless CCMT and Homestead Organics Farm. thanks-

Why Support Cultivating Connections MT?

Cultivating Connections Montana’s work is about ‘Building Community Through Food’. Acting as a catalyst, our goal is to empower youth, grow food and share knowledge, foster well-being, provide mentorship & job training, and bring people together through education, participation, and celebration. In a world where there is so much to disagree about, food is something we can all agree on, and it’s a place to start a new conversation.

We say ‘Change Your Food, Change the World.’

*We offer paid, hands-on engaged learning internships for teens in organic farming, cooking, and serving the community.

*We sell produce By-Donation at Farmers' Market, helping to get Montana foods to people of all income levels. In our commercial kitchen, teen interns and staff work together to produce salads and soups for donation to the Food Bank. In addition, they produce other ready-to-eat foods using and featuring Montana-grown ingredients, to sell at our Farmstand, Farmer’s Markets, and for donation.

*Our unique ‘Mayday! Gardens’ program, now in its sixth season, has gotten nearly 1000,000 free vegetable seedlings into gardens and yards around Western Montana. Using Montana grown seeds, Mayday! Gardens offers opportunities for school kids and community members to participate in the seeding and care of the plants. Its Mayday! Gardens, as in Mayday! Mayday! We all need to grow food-

*We host over 500 local school kids each spring and fall as well as multiple different homeschool groups where Farmers Laura and Henry share their ‘Tour-Taste-and Task’ format for Farm visits and tours.

*CCMT acts as a model for Montana Agritourism by using our Farm-Classroom to engage and educate.

*Special Abilities Camp is our day camp designed especially for kids on the autism spectrum. We pair our teen interns with kids and teens on the spectrum for an afternoon of adventure on the farm- petting animals, boating on the pond, visiting plants, games, snacks, and time to just Be. Special Abilties Camp is a collaboration between HEARTism and CCMT and 2024 is our 12th year of Special Abilities Camp on the farm.

*CCMT engages the broader community through events such as Farm Fun Day, Feast in the Field, Brunch and Yoga, Harvest Fest, Volunteer Day Thursdays, Earth Day Volunteering and more.

*CCMT runs a FarmStand that is stocked with our own produce and products as well as a growing variety of Montana ingredients and food products, an apothecary of self-care products, seeds, and more. The FarmStand features about 4 products from each producer, allowing for a fun variety of Montana goods. All profits from sales directly support the CCMT general operating budget, as we work to create a long term financial backbone for the organization.

*In 2023 we built a Learning and Sensory Garden that invites people of all abilities and ages to smell, taste, touch, and experience.

*In spring of 2024 we purchased and erected a new events tent that provides us with nearly 2000 square feet of shade right with unobstructed views of the very middle of the farm and all that’s going on.

*In March of 2024 we introduced our new Heritage Skills Workshop series. We’ve got over 30 workshops scheduled for this year- from Sourdough Baking to Vermicomposting, Willow Basketry to Backyard Chicken or Pig Butchering, Soap Making to Canning, Old German Easter Eggs and Straw Stars, Seed Saving, Plant Identification, Fermenting, and more.

Cultivating Connections invites YOU to get involved and participate in community, food, and farming! Change Your Food, Change the World!

The Cultivating Connections (CCMT) Farm-Classroom is located at Homestead Organics Farm, which was started in 1999 by Laura Garber. It began as an experiment in Organic food growing, and over time the farm has developed a strong educational focus and began hosting workshops, classes, and youth at the farm. CCMT was born to house these programs, as we have shifted away from a transactional model into a relational one: one that prioritizes creating a space for everyone to learn, grow, and share.

Our good works need your financial support.

Please help us reach our Fun-raising goal of $20,000!