Spring Fling 2026 recap
This past Saturday, Slide Ranch hosted its annual Spring Fling celebration. More than 500 visitors from all over the Bay Area flocked to our little oasis on the coast to dance, craft, eat, and explore all that this place has to offer. For a majority of these visitors (including ~80 babies and toddlers), it was their first time coming to Slide Ranch! It’s never too early to introduce your kid to a goat!
It was a day of engaging activities, wonderful music, and delicious food from local vendors like Tacolicious, PizzaHacker, Kinoko Japanese, and Nadia’s Desserts. Equator coffee, Numa Tea, Madrona Bakery goods, Lagunitas beer, and Marin Kombucha were also available for purchase. Visitors enjoyed their meals to live music in the garden by LoWatters and One Man Gone.
Activities were led by our staff and an amazing team of volunteers and volunteer organizations. Experiences ranged from milking our goats, making natural salves, flower crowns, fairy wands, or indigo tie-dye to cheffing up chapati and pesto with ingredients from the garden or enjoying our cob oven demonstration and the fresh hot foccaccia it produced. Families wearing flower crowns of nasturtium filtered into the yurt to learn how to make finger puppets out of wool. Marin Beekeepers enthralled visitors with their live hive and tasty honey samples. Zero Waste Marin and Recology educated about how we can all tread more lightly on this earth and The Marine Mammal Center provided engaging educations about our local seals.
Families learned what it takes to run a sustainable ranch and why these efforts are so important. Slide is a place for everyone. It’s a place where people from all kinds of backgrounds find common ground – delighting in a shared appreciation for the outdoors and all of the ways we are intimately connected to it. At our largest event of the year, surrounded by a community of new faces and old, this magic was on full display.
When kids and adults explore the garden, sampling different varieties of lettuce and crunching on fresh celery, they reconnect to their food and the processes that produce it. When they must work the wool in water for at least five minutes before they can decorate it, they relearn the patience that comes with working with your hands. Exploring, learning, and engaging with Slide Ranch means slowing down and grounding yourself in the rhythms of the natural world. It means working with the materials of the Earth, breathing in crisp, sweet-smelling air, and laughing with your friends. These experiences are both important and profound for humans of all ages – it’s what keeps me coming back!
Thank you to everyone who attended Spring Fling 2026 and made the day a success! Save the date for Spring Fling 2027 on May 1. It’s going to be the best one yet!
Enjoy a selection of photgraphy by Laura Jaeger, of Laura Jaeger Photography.
PS - Huge shoutout to all of our Sponsors without whom we would not be able to pull this event off - Pizza Hacker, Vintner's Daughter, EO, Laura Jaeger Photography, Recology, Dodge & Cox, Equator Coffe & Teas, Montecito Plaza, Good Earth Natural Foods, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Marin Kombucha, Numi Teas, Madrona Bakery, Strauss Creamery, Johnny's Doughnuts, Pt. Reyes Cheese, Rustic Bakery, and Clean Living.
