Harvest Festival

What is Harvest Festival?

The Mountain Sage Harvest Festival is a community gathering celebrating the abundance of the season and courage for the darkness of the cold months that lie ahead. We gather to recognize our striving, both as individuals and as a community, and ignite the light of all that is true and good so that it may radiate all through the coming winter. The fruits of the summer garden are shared with the warmth of soup made by our Gardening classes and the generosity of our community exemplified in the donation of fresh baked bread and apples. The children bring the magic of the season with songs and pageantry.

Volunteers and donations of firewood, soup ingredients, bread, and apples are needed to make this event a success!

What You Need to Know

We need volunteers! Complete the volunteer verification process if you would like to volunteer during Harvest Festival.

Firewood, ingredients for the soup, fresh baked bread, and fresh apples are key aspects to this harvest event. If you are able to donate any of these items, please click on the buttons to the left. You do not need to be a verified volunteer to donate. See below for a wonderful bread recipe.

This event takes place in the morning, but our playground gets direct sun all day. Please bring a sun hat and plenty of water for your family.

BYOD! Bring your own dinnerware. Aligning with our sustainability mission, we ask that each family bring their own reusable dinnerware: bowls or cups and spoons for soup, maybe a plate for bread and apples, and water bottles.

We suggest that you bring a blanket or chairs for your family for this event. The Dragon Pageant will run about 30 minutes long.

Plan to arrive at 10am. Once here, choose a star crown, place your food offering at the correct food station, and find a place to sit.

After the pageant, visit the School Store and with members of the Board at their booth.

Let the Sun Shine One More Day

Let the sun shine one more day
As we bend our backs and we bind the hay
As we gather in full-eared corn
When the days turn warm from a frosty morn

Pick and pile and cut and truss
What the earth has borne for us
Load it up, then haste away
For light grows shorter day by day

Chorus

Place the yield in silo and barn
Safe from snow and rain and harm
Then you reap a harvest sure
Of deep content and sleep secure

Chorus

Autumn's harvest rich as gold
Stored as winter's shield from cold
For our children, for the beasts
We now prepare a harvest feast

Chorus

Bless the earth and rain and sun
That we need to carry on
Bless the season's which have turned
And give to us what we have earned

Chorus