Holiday Warm-up — Watercolor Holiday Cards!

Indulge your creative spirit!

Relax and let your holiday creativity flow with Calgo's in-house watercolor instructor, Cindy Allen. 

Cindy will be available in the farmhouse the day of the event and will provide advice and instructions for your own holiday card watercolor.

Free

Holiday Warm-up —Mushroom Cultivation with Drop the Beet Farms

Learn something new in this unique workshop led by Cody Parker of Drop the Beet Farms!

With years of experience in mushroom cultivation, Cody will show the step-by-step process of straw pasteurization, sterilization, and inoculation in this hands-on workshop.

The fee includes materials for two mushroom grow kits which participants will watch fruit up to three times! 

Registration is required. Please call 609-273-4042 or email [email protected].

This 90 minute workshop will take place in the Calgo Greenhouse, so dress accordingly.

$35

Calgo’s All Day Open House

Enjoy a magical & merry day of holiday shopping, festive ambiance, good friends, & more!

Descriptions and pricing for each offering or workshop are listed separately in this events section.

• Holiday Kissing Ball Workshop!

• Beer Tasting with the Bradley Brewery Project!

• Holiday Pet Portraits with Diana Lang!

• Tour Drop the Beet's Aquaponics Farm! Free Family fun!

• Watercolor Holiday Cards with Cindy Allen!

• Dessert Tastings & Warm Apple Cider with Chef Heidi of the Tulip Tree Café!

• Holiday Discount Roulette—Calgo Gardens & The Barn

All Day Open House — Sample & Order Holiday Desserts!

The Tulip Tree Café’s Chef Heidi says you can have your cake and eat it too! 

Sample holiday desserts while placing your orders for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Chef Heidi will be available to discuss your holiday treats during the Holiday Warm-up event, or you can contact her at 732.256.9649 or by visiting tuliptreecafe.com.

Holiday Bonus!

Patrons of the café* will receive a $25 certificate toward a portrait session with Diana P. Lang Photography to be used during the 2019 season!

*A minimum purchase of $16 is required.

All Day Open House — Create Your Own Watercolor Holiday Cards!

Indulge your creative spirit!

Relax and let your holiday creativity flow with Calgo's in-house watercolor instructor, Cindy Allen. 

Cindy will be available in the farmhouse the day of the event and will provide advice and instructions for your own holiday card watercolor.

Free

All Day Open House — Beer Tastings / Bradley Brew Project

Owners and operators, and husband and wife duo, Chelsey and Mike, of the Bradley Brew Project will be at Calgo for an amazing beer tasting experience!

The Bradley Brewery Project is a nanobrewery with a vision to provide a community focused, education based customer experience. Their unique approach to recipe formulation and focus on assorted fermentation processes provide them with the opportunity to create various types styles, products and services.

Today that all can happen at Calgo! Stop by for a taste and a chat!

Gift Cards and merchandise will be available for purchase.

All Day Open House — Pet Portraits

Capture the essence of your pet's spirit in a photograph you will always cherish.

Photographer Diana P. Lang is an expert at capturing the best of your pet!

Fee includes one 8x10 print.

MUST schedule in advance. Call 609-462-1519

$75

All Day Open House — Aquaponics Facility Tours!

Take a fascinating up-close tour of Drop the Beets Farms’ aquaponic facility.

See the 15,000 gallon fish tanks and learn about the sustainable ecology of an aquaponics closed loop system. Understand the symbiotic relationship between fish, bacteria, and plants (food), and the roll each organism plays in nutrient cycling.

This tour will leave you thinking about the big ideas: how aquaponics farming as a sustainable alternative to conventional soil-based farming methods can be applied to world hunger issues. Examples: the impact of climate change has on agricultural crop production, or conditions needed to create an agricultural system in urban "food deserts”

Tours will run at 11 am / 1 pm / 3 pm

Please call 609-273-4042 to choose a tour time.

Free

Art-Full Tuesdays—Mosaic Wine Glasses with Nancy Frank

Cheers to creating the perfect gift with which to toast the holiday season!

Explore your creativity while artist and instructor, Nancy Frank, shows you the technique for applying colorful mosaics to the base of wine glasses.

TWO CLASSES AVAILABLE—Choose the time that's most convenient for you!

• 3–5 PM > Register here!
• 6–8 PM > Register here!

The fee includes all materials. Space is limited, so register today!

$40

Open Late Wednesdays!

From the Garden Gift Shop / Honey Tastings – Local farmers from From the Garden will be available to talk about, share, and sell their amazing raw honey that is not only unprocessed but straight from the hive! Local honey is known for its health benefits in addition to its natural sweet goodness! Stop by and learn more!

Bee Stamped by Dawn – Local artist, Dawn McGarry will be in with her one-of-a-kind, handcrafted spoon rings and other cool spoon creations! From hand-stamped wedding flatware to quirky keychains and fork elephant necklaces, if you like your grandmother's old silverware, you'll love Dawn's unique upcycled pieces.