EarthDance celebrated its 7th annual Farmer Formal Fundraiser on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at the Sheet Metal Workers Union Grand Hall. The formal affair involves a farm-inspired celebration with local food and drink, a bumper crop of auction items, and toe-tappin’ live music. Featuring a locally-grown catered dinner, live and silent auctions, and live music, guests enjoyed feasting, bidding, and dancing to benefit St. Louis’ own nationally-recognized Organic Farm School.
EarthDance comprises a 501c3 non-profit organization that operates an Organic Farm School on the oldest organic farm west of the Mississippi. Its mission: EarthDance sustainably grows food, farmers, and community, one small farm at a time, through hands-on education and delicious experiences.
EarthDance Organic Farm School offers the only part-time organic farming and gardening apprenticeship program known in the United States (and certainly in the Midwest), giving beginning growers an introduction to the skills and practices of sustainable agriculture without necessitating a complete departure to full-time living on a farm.
Since 2009, EarthDance has operated a season-long educational apprenticeship program which trains participants in sustainable agriculture from seed to market. Apprentices engage in every aspect of operating the small farm – from seed propagation in greenhouses to transplanting, weeding, harvesting and selling! Apprentices learn soil fertility principles, organic pest and disease management, proper harvest and post-harvest handling techniques, direct marketing, and CSA operations.
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- Clarice Hutchens-board member, Mike Hutchens
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- Vegetables grown at EarthDance Farms
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- Kathy Vanderselk, Mary Fava
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- Madeline Black, Grace Seymour, Monica Pless
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- Kelly Childs, Ned Dirlek
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- Lillian and Gary Giessow, Pat Senturia, Bronwem Zwirner
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- Sue and Bob Kapsev
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- Lisa Tevee, Candace Davis, Lisa Burke, Cat Neville
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- Robert Cless, Samantha Rockler
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- Chris Fava, Sonja Farmer, Kathleen Waideman, Chloe Seyer
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- Jenny Johnson, Celia Shacklepp
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- Bill Rouse, Steve Lawler- Board Chair,, Brenda Morrison, John Robinson
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- Ben Geisert, Katie Geisert
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- Pat Levon, Lisa and Aaron Young, Bob Kenkel
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- Joshua Smith, Sara Vermillion
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- Nathan Wolff, Mike, Justin Rulo-Sabe
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- Jill Allen, John Sievert
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- Dan Burn, Susan Ebling, Steve Gordon, Linda and Travis Lightner, John Sievert, Greg Keller, Jim Foster, Tori Bolton
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- Elise Foelsch, Jim Lumen
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- Soncha and Anthony Robinson, Jane Keating, Susan White
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- Lindsey and Stuart Morse
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- Mario Saltarelli, Sue and Ian Watkins, Mary Saltarelli
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- Ralph Rockamann, Susan Jackson
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- Debbie Fishwick, Jene Farmer, Tom Fishwick
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- Laurie Ann David, Wesley Fordyce
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- Anastasia Norman, Lucinda Anjali, Monica Pless-Farm Manager
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- Sue Reid, Rachel Waterman
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- Bill and Christina McConnell, Pam Klump, Debbie Croghan, Ester Gjergji
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- Kay and Bill Roush
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- Tami Korte, Roy Gross
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- Patti Trout, Ralph Rockamann
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- Kristen Coleman, Laura Caldie
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- Danielle Sallee, Rachel Henken
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- Molly Rockamann – founding director
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- Molly Rockamann
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- Moira Ross – board of directors
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- Catherine Neville – publisher and editor of Feast Magazine
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- Cat Neville
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- Moira Ross, Bob Smith-auctioneer
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- Live auction in progress
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- Staff of EarthDance Farms
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- Registration
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- Silent auction items
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- Sheet Metal Workers Union Grand Hall
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- More silent auction items
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- Silent auction items
