Spring Fling celebrates the season with live music, local organic cuisine, and farm and craft activities for everyone!  You and your family can have fun with our chickens, baby goat kids, and lambs.  Watch a sheep shearing demonstration, learn to card and spin wool, experience our organic garden, have your face painted, make a spring craft, or just go for a hike along the coast on one of our beautiful trails!

Fee:  $20/person in advance; $25 at the gate; $75 for families of 4 or more; age 2 & under free.

At Spring Fling, Slide Ranch will have a silent auction that includes an exquisite work of art in glass by renowned artist Dale Chihuly. To place an early bid (min. $3500) on this piece for the benefit of Slide Ranch, please email Charles Higgins: charles@slideranch.org:

As part of his Basket collection, inspired by Native American basketry, Dale Chihuly made this extraordinary piece. It is a delicate translucent gem that you will rarely find in galleries. Dale Chihuly is known all over the world for his innovative sculptures and installations, his use of vibrant colors, his experimentation with scale, and his integration of art into varied environments. Inspired by his mother's love of plants, and fascinated by the architecture of glasshouses, Chihuly has transplanted his monumental installations in recent years into gardens. The donor of this piece bought it at the 2006 New York Botanical Garden installation where they offered "Studio Edition Glass by Dale Chihuly - exquisitely colored, hand-blown pieces using the basic forms his art has revolved around for nearly forty years.” WHAT A MEMORABLE HOLIDAY GIFT! This item was donated by a generous collector to Slide Ranch, an environmental and sustainable agriculture education program on the Northern California Coast. Proceeds from the auction will help more than 6000 children experience the wonder of life and nature each year. If you want to discuss details, please call 415.381.8758 or email charles@slideranch.org. Item will be shipped from San Francisco, CA. Because of the delicate nature of this piece, we will need to arrange for special packaging, shipping and insurance. Buyer is responsible for arranging and paying for a service that meets his/her expectations Seller will release piece to shipper when payment is received and cleared.

EVENT ARCHIVES

What a Wonderful Evening !

Slide Ranch Silver Trowel Award Dinner in Honor of Founder Doug Ferguson
Thursday, November 1, 2007
142 Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley

Thank you to everyone who supported this special evening of music, memories and inspiration!  We raised more than $85,000.

  
Huey Johnson, left, who was regional chief with the Nature Conservancy in 1970 and worked with Doug Ferguson, right, to engineer the tricky purchase of 134 acres of coastal land for Slide Ranch, presents the Silver Trowel to his longtime friend.  At right, Willie Brown Academy 5th grader Mika Henderson tells of her experience at Slide Ranch.

Warren Hellman, left, plays banjo with Nate Levine during a rousing set performed by The Wronglers.

If you are interested in supporting the Silver Trowel Award Dinner in 2008 , please call Charles Higgins at 415.381.8758 or charles@slideranch.org

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