Focus on Hanley Farm – November 2019

The holidays are absolutely here at Hanley Farm! Make your own holiday wreath on Saturday, November 30, from 11:00am-3:00pm, using all-natural materials clipped from the trees and bushes that grace the farm. Wreath-making kits that include all you need will be available for only $15 for non-SOHS Members, and $10 for SOHS Members. The kits include grapevine base, choice of greens and berries, and wire and clippers, plus ribbon is available. If you haven’t made a wreath before, there will be volunteers to help you and give wreath-making advice. There will be children’s activities, and Santa accepted our invitation to visit Hanley Farm again this year. Children will definitely want to spend some time with Santa, whispering their holiday secrets in his ear. This is a great photo opportunity! And that’s not all… those who participated in the October Scarecrow Festival at Hanley, also had the opportunity to purchase delicious food prepared by Crepe Me. They were so well received and their food so absolutely delicious, we invited them back!

Windows in Time Lecture Series presents, “The Bounty of the Land: Southern Oregon Agriculture, 1850-1920.” Wednesday, November 6, at the Medford Library, and Wednesday, November 13 at the Ashland Library, noon-1:00pm. Guest speaker Larry Mullaly will explore the geographic and economic conditions that enabled Southern Oregon farming to thrive as early as the 1850s, and eventually enter the international market. Larry will contrast the culture of the Valley’s older ranching and mixed-use farms with the orchard industry.

The Sixties Come to Southern Oregon at the November 5 First Tuesdays Pub Talk, 7:00pm at the Four Daughters Irish Pub in Downtown Medford. Ben Truwe will take you on a journey back in time to 1960s Southern Oregon, sharing film footage taken in the late 1960s in Jackson County, capturing the arrival of the counterculture, students protesting the Vietnam War, and Rogue Valley Police and National Guard preparation for rioting that, thankfully, never came. Also shown will be some of the last footage ever taken of Bobby Kennedy, taken during his 1968 visit to Medford.