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April 2023
Let’s Farm!
Farm Tour - get ideas: Beekeeping Basics Seed Starting 101 Starting your Gardens - tips & hacks Growing your own Healing Herbs Chick Care Discovery Weed Walk Tickets are available on the website's "Farm Events" page. CA & J Farm is proud to be a Kiwanis Farm! The Mathews Kiwanis will be joing CA & J Farm, working with the Kinship Club, creating & building...Projects & Smiles! The Kiwanis do this well! https://www.kiwanis.org/home https://www.facebook.com/MathewsVAKiwanis
Find out more »May 2023
Hatchery Tours & Tastings
Looking for a cool experience where science leads to sustainable culinary bliss?! Join Oyster Seed Holdings for a hatchery tour and tasting running every other Friday, May - August. Get a behind the scenes look at what it takes to put oyster seed in the hands of farmers. On Tour Fridays, there will be 6 tours with 6 people per tour starting at 5pm. Your ticket gets you an oyster tasting and a tour through the hatchery with a staff member…
Find out more »Wellness Day
Join CA&J Farm for their Memorial Weekend Wellness Day! Schedule: 1:15 Herb Talk- All About Your Skin 1:45 Chad Fortney- Discover the Energy of the Stones 2:15 Farm Tour- Feed the Animals 2:45 Healthy Weeds & Foraging Walk 3:15 Drum Fun by the Fire! 4:15 Farm Tour- Feed the Animals Until 5 PM: Explore the Gardens, Farm & Meditation Areas, Enjoy the Yellow Barn Store, Create in the Hive, Relax & Breathe! Refreshments-Games-Nature Therapy Chad of Alternative Energy Healing of West Point,…
Find out more »July 2023
Movie Night at the Museum
Local Gloucester resident, Mary Bush Shipko, aviatrix and a violinist in the Courthouse Community Orchestra, is guest speaker at Mathews Historical Museum Movie Night, Friday, July 14. Shipko’s remarks will precede a showing of Part II of a movie detailing Virginia’s role in aviation history. “Taking Flight—Stories of Modern Virginia Aviation, 1941 to Present Day,” Part II, is produced by Dave Miller of Miller Productions of Virginia. Miller is a prize winning independent film maker who is now focusing his efforts on Virginia stories and…
Find out more »August 2023
Movie Night: Horatio’s Drive
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for a free, family-friendly movie night! The Museum is screening the movie "Horatio's Drive." In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the US in a "horseless carriage!" Doors open at 6:30 PM, movie begins at 7 PM.
Find out more »Let’s Farm!
Join your friends at CA&J Farm, for a "Let's Farm!" event, and learn educational farm skills. More details coming soon.
Find out more »September 2023
Movie Night at the Museum
Join the Mathews Historical Museum for a free movie night! Doors open at 6:30. movie starts at 7 PM. “A Voyage of Discovery,” describes the 1608 travels of Captain John Smith, who, with a small crew, set out from Jamestown on two exploratory voyages and covered the entire area of the Chesapeake Bay. The information he recorded about the indigenous peoples and the landscape introduced the region to those back home in England hoping to expand the colony, eventually triggering…
Find out more »School Board Candidate Forum
The Candidate Forum for the upcoming School Board election is coming up! Please plan to attend to hear all candidates' positions and ask questions.
Find out more »October 2023
VIMS Lecture Series: Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay
Join The Mathews Land Conservancy & VIMS for the first in a lecture series: Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay. This presentation by Rachel Dixon is on the diversity of fishes in the Chesapeake Bay, the methods used to sample and study fishes, and the challenges facing fishes and their habitats. Rachel Dixon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Natural Resources section at VIMS. This event is free and open to the Publix.
Find out more »The Haunting of the Hudgins House
Join the Mathews Memorial Library for "The Haunting of the HUDGINS HOUSE... an Ever-Evolving Tale" with Benn Trask. This free event is open to the public, and refreshments will be served! The Hudgins House tale began in the fall of 1882 when lighthouse officials in Baltimore granted Assistant Keeper Augustine F. Hudgins of the Wolf Trap station a leave of absence to tend to an unusual family matter. The issue reportedly was a malicious spirit that was tormenting the lighthouse…
Find out more »November 2023
Centerpiece Candle Making & Wine
Get ready to light up your holidays with the ultimate DIY extravaganza at Under the Stars Farm! 🕯️✨ Calling all candle enthusiasts and crafty creators – this workshop is where the magic happens! Join the Farm for a fabulous blend of candle making & wine, a combo made in DIY heaven. Picture this: flickering candles casting a cozy glow, filling your home with delightful aromas and charm. We're talking 4-wick wonders in wooden bowls – the epitome of candle luxury!…
Find out more »Gift Candle Making
Winter is here and you are looking for something fun to do... This candle workshop is perfect for candle lovers or DIY enthusiasts who want to learn something new and have a great time doing it! Sing up for Candle Making & Wine at Under the Stars Farm! Candles add warmth, scent, and ambiance to your home, and these wooden dough bowl 2-wick candles are a real treat. * These candles are smaller than the centerpiece candles and great as…
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