Community Outreach

Each April, the Stars and Strides family opens the farm to the community for a low cost, family friendly Spring Farm Festival! Our largest event of the year, the Spring Farm Festival has grown significantly and last year included approximately 650 individual attendees from all over Catawba and Lincoln Counties and beyond! Featuring a wide variety of family friendly activities, there is something for everyone. Activities include pony rides by trained professionals, a petting zoo, bounce houses, face painting and balloon artists, a craft table, family and farm friendly vendors, a photo station and even a dunk tank (featuring our intrepid teen volunteers, ready to get wet!)! Most activities are free for the cost of admission. Food and coffee trucks provide the lunch of your choice (for a fee) that you can enjoy while listening to our DJ harass the dunk tank participants and piping out family-friendly music or browsing our exclusive, small group of vendors. Need a breather from the crowd? There’s even a place your family can challenge each other to a game of corn hole, all by yourselves.