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Speak Easy Farm, 1214 France Street, New Orleans, LA (2026)

09/27/2024

🌟SUNDAYS & MONDAYS🌟
+++🌿 10 am - 1 pm 🌿+++
…. are Farm OPEN Hours!

Wow — so much has transformed at the farm in this first week of fall! THANK YOU to each of you who brought your time and muscles since Equinox to turning cover crops for new garden beds, clearing weeds, pulling vines off of trees, planting out seedlings, and having heart-to-hearts with the soil! Persimmons, coneflowers, cypresses, habañeros, fritillaries, teenage chickens, orange cat... all the notes are sounding! 🎶

🌿OPEN HOURS are open drop-in times to visit the farm, learn, tend the plants, harvest, be with the land, and rest the mind, heart, and spirit…

🌿No experience necessary to help in the garden! We put up a farm task list for open hours each week, with projects large and small to choose from, for anyone who wants to help tend the garden. Beginner friendly!!

🌿This quarter acre of biodiverse living beings is cared for by many hands in collaboration, so that harvests can be shared freely by all of us in community. In this way, we seek to grow relationships with plants and earth as living beings, rather than as commodities with prices for purchase... Open Hours is where this happens!

🌿All are welcome to pick your own harvests to take home from the medicine and food plants in season, make bouquets of flowers and herbs, collect seeds, take plant cuttings for propagation, and be at home at the farm...
..Or just come to visit. You can also look through the garden library we’ll have set out, peruse the at cost apothecary (once we refill it...), or bring your own projects to work on outdoors. Hope to see you!

~ 1214 France St. ~ no dog friends please - plz lock bikes on the street ~

09/20/2024

🌖🌘 EQUINOX OPEN HOURS 🌒🌔

Come celebrate Fall Equinox by visiting the farm this upcoming Sunday and Monday mornings, to open the new farm season together! We’ll be clearing overgrown vines and brush, but we’ll also be planting for Fall!

🌿SUNDAY | sep 22 | 10 am - 1 pm
🌿MONDAY | sep 23 | 10 am - 1 pm

This Sunday the 22nd is the date of astronomical equinox, when length of day and of night are exactly equal, so at this special moment in the growing season, we’d love to ask for all who visit the farm to think about bringing blessings, prayers for the land, intentions, protections, and dreams for the community season ahead, and to offer them to the land as feels appropriate to you.

We’ll set up a shared altar space to add to and tend together as one form of invitation, and we also welcome other forms of offering that may be more private or personal or take other shapes. (I like to bury written intentions under my favorite trees, for example).

🌒 Open Hours are weekly open drop-in times to visit, learn, tend, and harvest at the farm. No experience necessary to help in the garden. All are welcome to pick your own harvests to take home from the medicine and food plants in season, make bouquets of flowers and herbs, collect seeds, take plant cuttings for propagation, and be at home in the garden. This quarter acre of biodiverse living beings is cared for by many hands in collaboration, so that harvests can be shared freely by all of us in community. In this way, we seek to grow relationships with plants and earth as living beings, rather than as commodities with prices for purchase... Open Hours is where this happens!

We put up a farm task list for open hours each week, with projects large and small to choose from, for anyone who wants to help tend the garden. Beginner friendly!! Or just come to visit. You can also look through the garden library we’ll have set out, peruse the at cost apothecary, or bring your own projects to work on outdoors.

🌿 Any herbs or eating greens or flowers that are ready to harvest are available to you to pick and take home for you, family and friends, or community projects. Happy Equinox!

05/15/2024

🌀DIRT MAKES CLAY🌀
�✨this SATURDAY | may 18 | 2 - 5 pm✨ FREE✨

Children of the speak easy community are invited to participate in a one day workshop offering introductory hand building and glazing ceramic techniques. This month we will be creating small flower vases. We will talk about the flowers we see in the garden, using them as inspiration for our design. The workshop will end with making a small bouquet to take home. Participants will be required to pick up fired pieces two weeks to a month after completion. Snacks included!

Limited to 8 children, ages 7-12

🌀TO SIGN UP: please email Ariel at [email protected]. Each child must be registered separately by their guardian. Confirmation emails will be sent before the workshop.

04/17/2024

🌀DIRT MAKES CLAY🌀
✨this SATURDAY | april 20 | 2 - 5 pm✨FREE

Children of the speak easy community are invited to participate in a one day workshop offering introductory hand building and glazing ceramic techniques. This month we will construct mugs and decorate them with a scrafito technique. The children will also be invited to harvest a small tea blend which will be dried and ready to pick up with completed and fired mugs.

Going forward, each workshop will use the farm as inspiration for creation. Participants will be required to pick up fired pieces two weeks to a month after completion. Snacks included!

Limited to 8 children, ages 7-12

🌀TO SIGN UP: please email Ariel at [email protected]. Each child must be registered separately by their guardian. Confirmation emails will be sent before the workshop.

04/04/2024

✨✨You’re invited!!✨✨
💧RAINWATER Catchment💧
As a Way to Relate to Land
~ a speak easy farm series with Alleyn Evans and guest teachers Eleanor Warner & Nick Boyd ~

~ 3 DATES ~

💧April 13 - Rainwater Catchment ~ In Ground
with Alleyn Evans & Eleanor Warner
~ Learn how vital in-ground rainwater collection can be to soil health, garden ecology, and local water cycles. Explore and implement practical solutions to soil erosion, land loss, and flooding, with a focus on swale building ~

💧April 27 - DIY Rainwater Catchment ~ Above Ground
with Alleyn Evans
~ DIY options for building functional rain catchment tote systems to best fit your space and usage needs ~

🌞April 28 - DIY small-scale SOLAR
with Nick Boyd
~ Trying to unplug from the dirty grid? Looking for new ways to power your water filter pump, community fridge, or outdoor space? Come learn the basics of small-scale, off-grid solar, no experience necessary! We’ll cover some fundamentals, like volts, amps, and watts, and learn all about the major building blocks of an off-grid system, including solar panels, batteries, charge controllers, and inverters. By the end we’ll understand how these systems work, their benefits and limitations, and be ready to upgrade the system at Speak Easy Farm! ~

ALL classes are at 2:00 - 4:30 pm,
Speak Easy Farm, 1214 France St.

💧TO SIGN UP: Email [email protected] to register or with any questions. Please include your name, email address, best way to contact you, and which topics/dates you're signing up for.

COST: $5 - 30 sliding scale donation (per class)

Flier artwork by Sage Franz

03/26/2024

✨✨KIDS class THIS Saturday✨✨
~~🌀DIRT MAKES CLAY🌀~~�a FREE ceramics offering for ages 7-12
🌿outdoors at Speak Easy Farm🌿�with Ariel Claborn🔸rsvp required
�SATURDAY | mar 30 | 2 - 5 pm

🌀Children of the speak easy farm community are invited to participate in a one day workshop offering introductory hand building and glazing ceramic techniques.

🌀We will discuss the history of clay’s uses and explore its composition compared to the garden soil thick with plant life.

🌀In our first meeting, interpretations of the plants and their caretakers will be the final focus of our ceramic sculptures. Going forward, each workshop will use the farm as inspiration for creation. (Keep an eye out for next workshop dates to be announced in April….)

Participants will need to pick up fired pieces two weeks to a month after completion.

Snacks included!

Limited to 8 children, ages 7-12

🌟To Register* (or for questions): please email Ariel at [email protected].

*Each child must be registered separately by their guardian. Confirmation emails will be sent in reply before the workshop✨

03/22/2024

🌿OPEN HOURS🌿 ~ weekly hosted drop-in time to visit, learn, tend, and harvest ~

🔸You’re invited! Come pick your own harvests to take home from the medicine and food plants in season, make bouquets of flowers and herbs, collect seeds, take plant cuttings for propagation, and make yourself at home in the speak easy garden.

🌱This quarter acre of biodiverse living beings is cared for by many hands in collaboration, so that harvests can be shared freely by all of us in community. In this way, we seek to grow relationships with plants and earth as living beings, rather than as commodities with prices for purchase... Open Hours is where this happens!

🔸We put up a farm task list for open hours each week, with projects large and small to choose from, for anyone who wants to help tend the plants. Beginner friendly!! Or just come to visit and relax. You can also look through the plant books library we'll have set out, peruse the at cost apothecary, or bring your own projects to work on outdoors.

🌱Any herbs or eating greens or flowers that are ready to harvest are available to you to pick and take home for you, family and friends, or community projects.

🔸Open Hours are hosted by a rotating farm team made up of , , , August, , and me (Eleanor). We’d love to see you!

++++ no dog friends please - plz lock bikes on the street ++++

02/21/2024

⚡️⚡️UPDATES from Rachael⚡️⚡️
—>> Yall, we've got an amazing guest teacher line up! & The plants are coming out, it is sooo exciting!

🔹Top left >>> Peach flowers
🔹Top right >>> Oxalis AKA sour flower
🔹Bottom left >>> Calendula
🔹 Bottom right >>> Cleavers

>>> Want to know about these plant friends' healing properties?

02/01/2024

>> Now open for registration!
✨🏵️•Roots & Remedies •🏵️✨
Herbal Foundations Course, Spring 2024
at Speak Easy Farm, 1214 France St.
🔹with Rachael Reeves 🔹

March 4th ~ April 29th
MONDAYS | 10 am - 1 pm
+ 3 field trips, SATURDAYS

🔹 This course will focus on:
• Traditional healing properties & uses of Southern plants
• Seasonal remedies
• Tea & plant tasting
• Energetic & elemental approaches
• Medicine making
• Story & wisdom sharing
• Ecosystems, field study & plant id
• Ethical harvesting
• Plants as teachers & allies
• Immersive & hands on experience

In an outdoor classroom we will delve into elemental relationships of ecosystems; our bodies, the plants & landscapes around us. We will experience these elements with our senses and awareness, cultivating a deep understanding of the properties and energetics of plants & foods we use for nourishment, restoration, and balance.

Everyone will leave the class with the beginnings of a home apothecary and the skills to make more medicine!

Availability of two partial scholarships & work trade ~ First priority for these spots are - single parents, BIPOC, LGTQ+, service workers & low income folks from/ live in NOLA

🏵️Cost: $500 - $650, sliding scale
Deposit: $100 to register

🏵️To register & for more information:
[email protected]
504-444-6003

RACHAEL REEVES, RH(AHG), a Community Clinical Herbalist & Health Educator, has been in a life-long relationship with the plant world, nature & community. She is a radical gardener, nature lover, activist, mother & plant nerd. C0-founder of Maypop Community Herb Shop, offering access to plants, education and the radical notion of self-care & healthcare and nurturing, safer community spaces. She currently runs the Do-Drop-In Herbal Clinic, 2703 St. Claude Ave.
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01/26/2024

>>🌿 Working Title: A Collaboration of Language, Land, and Liberation 🌿

01/13/2024

Join the Krewe of Frijolitas 🫘 as we learn how to make a sofrito with Lila! This Sunday from 2-4 pm at the speakeasy's kitchen table, let's talk about the sauce! 🌱💦

Nuestras madres have taught us in the way of making something sabroso con lo que hay / with what we got on hand; in this spirit, we welcome friends to bring any veggies they may have in their kitchen to offer to the collective sauce making (celery, onions, garlic, peppers, limes, cilantro are all welcomed).

Barter exchange or a suggested donation of $10-20 welcomed. $ sliding scale is self selected and can be made cash, Cashapp or Zelle during or after our time together (details will be shared at workshop). No one turned away if unable to pay $, bartering welcomed!

Please RSVP to give us an idea of head count for prep via IG DM or at [email protected] 💓

01/10/2024

🌟SAVE THE DATE🌟 >> Community propagation, restoration, + experimentation OPEN HOURS - with Eleanor

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