Farm • Gardens • Flowers (FGF) Festival

Saturday May 17, 2025 10am-5pm at Forrest Green Farm (Louisa Virginia)

Free Event!

Enjoy food trucks, vendors, farm tours, garden tours, healthy living workshops, 10% off all FGF plants, herbal medicine demos, kids zone and more!

Farm • Gardens • Flowers (FGF) Festival Events

Farm Tour

Farm Tour

Join Rob for a tour of the farm, walking through the fields! Explore the pastures and visit the laying hens, broiler chickens, and cattle. 
Garden Tour

Garden Tour

Join Krista for a stroll through the gardens at FGF! Discover the strip rows, circle gardens, herb gardens, and raised beds. Gain insights into various gardening methods and bring your gardening inquiries. 
Herbal Medicine Demos

Herbal Medicine Demos

Tinctures • Infused Oil & Vinegar • Elixirs • Salves • Infused Salt & Sugar • Shrubs
Healthy Living Workshops

Healthy Living Workshops

The speakers are featured below
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Artisan & Local Vendors

See the list below
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Food Trucks

Smash Burgers • Jamaican Food • Ice Cream
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Beer & Cider Garden

Southern Revere Cellars • Son of a Bear Cider
SESE Sweet Potatoes
Pre-Order Sweet Potato Slips!

SESE Sweet Potatoes

Secure your Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Sweet Potato slips by preordering now and picking them up at the Festival
Pre-Order Here

2025 Healthy Living Workshop Speakers

Schedule below

Rob Rahm: Forrest Green Farm

Livestock Guardian Dogs 101 - Join Rob as he explains the role of livestock guardian dogs at Forrest Green Farm. He will discuss their training, the unique traits of Great Pyrenees, and how we acclimate the dogs to the people and animals they are meant to protect, along with their nocturnal behaviors and more! Listen in as he reveals all the insights about Moose, Maggie, Kona, and Huck! 

Krista Rahm: Forrest Green Farm

Wellness Simplified! - Join Krista as she explores integrating herbs and supplements into your daily life. She will share straightforward techniques, tips, and tricks for using specific herbs and the best preparations for common ailments. Additionally, she will discuss the recommended daily intake of herbal preparations. Join her as she simplifies wellness! 
How to Grow, Harvest, Cure, Store and Use Homegrown Sweet Potatoes: Delicious, nutritious, and easy to grow, sweet potatoes thrive in hot, humid areas, but are easy to grow. The vines provide an edible green and the sweet tubers can be served baked, boiled, steamed, or as fabulous fries. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) rates sweet potatoes as the overall most nutritious home garden vegetable: low in fat and sodium but high in fiber, carbohydrates, potassium, manganese, and vitamins A and C. The attractive vines make an attractive ground cover or container plant. Learn how to grow and use your own homegrown sweet potatoes. Secure your Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Sweet Potato slips by preordering now and picking them up at the Festival. Scroll down to preorder.
Acupuncture for Alpha Gal Facts vs Fiction - This talk will provide insights into why not all acupuncture procedures are effective for Alpha Gal allergy, explain that Alpha Gal is not solely an allergy to meat, and discuss the most successful acupuncture treatment for this condition. Additionally, we will clarify what your blood work really signifies and explore why some symptoms you experience may not actually be related to Alpha Gal but could stem from entirely different issues.

Angel Shockley: Herb Angel

Dyeing with Plants - Learn the basics of natural dyeing with plants you can grow in your own garden!
Growing Your Green Thumb - A talk inviting you to get growing in your garden.
Lessons in Beekeeping - Discussion of lessons learned in my years of beekeeping. I will go over the basics of starting and apiary, ideal locations, equipment options and what to consider before starting an apiary.
Ancestral Eating For Resilience and Longevity

Abigail McDonnell: Black Door Farm

Growing Bouquets with Regenerative Practices - A discussion on gardening in a way that will give back to you. Learn about regenerative growing practices, maximizing your growing space, and how to begin and maintain your own cut flower garden.
Growing Lavender in Central VA - A discussion on successfully growing lavender in VA, including a brief introduction to lavender, the different varieties, harvesting and propagation, and some of the many ways lavender can be utilized.
Mushrooms: Grow Them, Eat Them, Heal with Them - Learn how easy it is to grow your own mushrooms to add diversity to your garden and different ways prepare them for your diet and health.

2025 Vendors

Our specialty lies in crafting the juiciest, most flavorful smash burgers in Virginia. Each patty is lovingly smashed and seared to perfection.
Let the flavor begin. Imagine a taste explosion! Whether you’re bringing a slice of Jamaica to your next big bash or you just want to spice up your next gathering, we are here to cater to your cravings. Don’t stress about fancy language, just be yourself and let the love for delicious Jamaican food shine.
Hersheys ice cream, sundeas, and floats as well as freshly squeezed lemonade.
Rooted in Tradition, Crafted with Ambition. A family owned winery and brewery serving finely crafted beers and beautifully blended wines in Louisa, Virginia.
Son of a Bear Ciders are produced and bottled by Teaghlaigh Vineyard in Rapidan, Virginia. Teaghlaigh Vineyard is owned and operated by the McMahon family. “McMahon” means “son of a bear” in Irish Gaelic. “Teaghlaigh,” pronounced “tay-la,” means “family” in Gaelic.That’s what we’re about: 1 great grandmother, 2 grandparents, 6 parents, and 6 children all working on our family vineyard. We infuse our Irish heritage and United States Air Force foundation into unique Virginia ciders.
Bring your kids to enjoy a bounce house and snow cones! We will have a bounce house for older kids and a separate one for children under 4. The all-day jump pass is only $5 and is subject to timed sessions based on the number of participants.
Egg Brigade Black Soldier Fly Larvae - Veteran Owned - Always grown in the USA!
Handmade Goat milk & castle soaps, bath Salt and oils, salves, balms and scrubs. Honey from the apiary when available
The Toy Barn Homestead, where we craft luxurious goat milk soaps using locally sourced oils and natural ingredients. Discover our unique, aromatic blends that nourish your skin and elevate your everyday skincare routine.
Extension Master Gardeners are trained volunteer educators. We work within our local communities to encourage and promote environmentally sound horticulture practices through sustainable landscape management education and training.
Locally owned and operated face painting business; Paint, Pixels, & Pixie Dust will bring the SPARKLE to any event!
Local potter specializing in unique, functional and decorative pieces, inspired by nature and her love of the outdoors.
Providing gardening, landscaping and design services to Richmond and central VA.
Locally owned business selling handmade hair bows and accessories.
Deep Roots Milling is worker owned and operated. We mill-to-order one week every month and offer a variety of flour and meal, bolted and unbolted. Virginia grown grains, regenerative agriculture, quality milling and working as a direct link between farmers and bakers are our primary concerns. All products are milled within the walls of historic Woodson's Mill in Lowesville, VA. We are driven by water, making flour with purpose.

Weston A Price

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (SESE) is a cooperatively-owned seed company based out of Mineral, Virginia. SESE is a source for heirloom seeds and other open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds with an emphasis on vegetables, flowers, and herbs that grow well in the Mid-Atlantic region. Secure your Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Sweet Potato slips by preordering now and picking them up at the Festival. Scroll down to preorder.
Windsor Lavender Farm is an organic lavender farm located in Amelia, VA, open seasonally to visitors every June. We grow, harvest, and process our lavender by hand, distilling our own essential oil and handcrafting a variety of lavender products for home and bath.
We are a micro farm located in Louisa,Va that focuses on the year round cultivation of gourmet mushrooms, and functional mushrooms, as well as naturally grown seasonal produce.
Providing seasonally inspired, high quality, small batch herbal products.

Healthy Living Workshops Schedule

SPEAKER SCHEDULE

KIDS ZONE

Bouncy House*

Face Painting*

Plant a Seed

Crafts

Flower Crowns*

*requires a small additional fee (bring cash)

Pre-Order SESE Sweet Potato Slips!

Secure your Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Sweet Potato slips by preordering now and picking them up at the Farm • Gardens • Flowers (FGF) Festival on May 17th, 2025 from 10am-5pm. Don't miss out on this limited opportunity to get your hands on these sweet potatoes slips! Pick them up at the SESE festival booth on May 17th between 10am-5pm.

LOCAL PICK UP ONLY. Orders MUST be picked up at Forrest Green Farm on May 17th! No shipping available. 

Sweet Potato Varieties: 

Beauregard Certified Organic, Small-Farm-Grown, Heirloom. 100 days. Farmers rely on this reliable, high-yielding variety. Crack-resistant roots and deep orange color with flavorful dry flesh. Compared to other varieties even big roots will bake quickly.

All Purple Certified Organic, Small-Farm-Grown, Heirloom. 120 days. Traditional Japanese variety. True to its name, All Purple has dark purple flesh and skin. One of the hardiest roots in our collection, a fast and strong grower sure to give a generous harvest at season’s end. Roots are starchy, dry, slightly sweet, and store well; good in savory dishes and mixed mashes.

Carolina Ruby Certified Organic, Small-Farm-Grown, Heirloom. 100 days. A reliable variety with high yields. Dark orange flesh when cooked and a smooth ruby skin. Perhaps the most strikingly red of the red-skinned sweet potatoes. High level of resistance to Fusarium wilt and soil rot. Moist texture and moderate sweetness. Stores well. 

Hayman Certified Organic, Small-Farm-Grown, Heirloom. (White Haymon, White Hamon) 100 days. Vining plants with cream-colored skin and white flesh that turns slightly yellow when cooked. Like O’Henry, this variety is a great substitute for “Irish Potatoes,” but with a sweeter flavor. Produces large uniform roots. Traditional heirloom of Eastern Shore Maryland.

Georgia Jet Certified Organic, Small-Farm-Grown, Heirloom. 100 days. Sweet, moist, mildly fibrous bright orange flesh makes this classic sweet potato perfect for baking. This cold-tolerant variety can be grown successfully even in areas with short growing seasons. 

PRE-ORDER HERE

Raffle to Support Waylon's Fight Against Brain Cancer!

We will hold a raffle on festival day to support Tori Hinnant's son, Waylon! Tickets are $5 each, and the prize basket full of FGF goodies is valued at $150. Please bring cash to enter the raffle. All proceeds will go to the Hinnant family. #WaylonStrong

Frequently Asked Festival Questions

Yes! There is no cost for entrance, the farm tours or the workshops.

Yes! Keep an eye on our Facebook event page for all the latest festival news.

Yes, please do, we have frozen and cold items in the Market on the Farm and the vendors have cold items as well.

Yes!

Yes, we have food trucks, beer, wine, cider and desserts!

Yes, the Market on the Farm does. We can not gauruntee all of the vendors will though. If you want to enter the raffle to support Waylon's fight against brain cancer please bring cash!