Hanley Farm - Summer Thursdays
SOHS HANLEY FARM PRESENTS: SUMMER THURSDAY EVENT
Explore the Hanley Farm and gardens, bring a picnic and take a tour of the Hanley House museum. The outside portion your Hanley House tour will be in-person, and there will be video-tour of the interior. There is a modest fee for house tours, but everything else is free! June 3 is the first Summer Thursday at Hanley Farm, featuring guided tours of The Bard’s Garden and a mini–Heritage Plant Sale.
Come explore Shakespeare from a botanical perspective! The Bard’s Garden features hundreds of flowers, herbs, vegetables, fruit and nut trees, berry bushes and grasses mentioned in five of Shakespeare’s plays: Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, plus the entrance features the Temple Rose Garden from Henry VI, Part 1.
As you stroll the garden paths, immerse yourself in the sights, sounds, smells, and tactile experiences of this unique botanical garden. Learn the name of each plant in the garden and its accompanying verse in the Bard’s play. Then treat yourself to Shakespeare-inspired tastings made from farm-fresh produce.
The Bard’s Garden is an ongoing horticultural project designed, planted, and maintained by local garden writer and educator, Rhonda Nowak. Rhonda will be on hand to answer questions and tell stories that will make you wonder if Shakespeare was a gardener in his spare time!
Did you miss Hanley Farm’s April Heritage Plant Sale? Thursday evening, June 3, there will be a smaller plant sale, featuring leftover plants from the April sale. These plants have grown bigger, and many are blooming. Perennials, herbs, and special one-of-a-kind plants are available, including Native trees and shrubs, gorgeous yellow daylilies, dusty miller, goldenrod, and sunchokes. Fall bloomers and more are ready to fill in your garden spaces. There are even some pumpkin/sunflower pots ready!
June 3: Rhonda Nowak gives guided tours of the Shakespeare Gardens. And there will be a mini-Hanley Heritage Plant sale!
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Date and Time
Thursday Jun 3, 2021
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
June 3: Rhonda Nowak gives guided tours of the Shakespeare Gardens. And there will be a mini-Hanley Heritage Plant sale!
June 10: Early 1900’s Fashion Show, models representing Hanley friends and family showing costumes of the age and talking about the farm’s and Alice Hanley’s history.
June 17: There will be all kinds of hands-on activities at the Family Heritage Fair, from laundry to faux calf roping!
June 24: The Randall Theater present readings of a play or skit based on regional history. Perhaps local history vignettes, or an original play?
Location
Hanley Farm
1053 HANLEY ROAD
Fees/Admission
$3 to $5 fee for the house tours, but everything else is free!
