Ladew Garden Festival - May 4, 2024
Ladew Topiary Garden’s Annual Garden Festival (Star Bright Farm AT LADEW)
Ladew Topiary Garden’s Annual Garden Festival (Star Bright Farm AT LADEW)
We are beyond thrilled to have Priya (of Priya Means Love Body Care) coming back to Star Bright to teach a salve making workshop!
In this two-hour workshop, you’ll create a medicinal salve of your own design to add to your home apothecary!
We’ll cover the process of infusing herbs into oils to create potent herbal medicine, smell and feel our way through a variety of medicinal herbs grown at Star Bright Farm and their respective infused oils: calendula, comfrey, yarrow, lavender, and chamomile. We’ll discuss the herbal medicinal properties of each herb, you’ll formulate and craft an herbal salve of your own design using oils infused with Star Bright Farm’s herbs, beeswax, and essential oils distilled on the farm, with materials chosen to fit into your family’s medicine cabinet — whether for itchy skin and bug bites, for bumps and bruises, or for sleep.
You’ll leave with a 2 oz tin of an herbal salve of your own design, plus the knowledge to create your own herbal salves at home.
Before the workshop begins, we will meet and mingle while enjoying refreshments. We look forward to growing this community of friendship!
$75 per person, all materials and refreshments provided.
Mother’s Day Lunch at Star Bright Farm
Eco Printing Workshop with Marta Riemer
First Annual Gypsy Jazz Festival - featuring Michael Joseph Harris, The Hot Club of Baltimore, and Alfonso Ponticelli.
DIY wreath making with our English Lavender. All materials provided.
Day One of Lavender Festival. Music, Food, Shopping, and Wagon Rides
Day Two of Lavender Festival. Music, Food, Shopping, and Wagon Rides
A unique cocktail crafting experience with award winning chef Daniel Stevens.
Understanding your energetic body through reiki and yoga. In this workshop, you will learn how to practice energy healing through self-reiki, as well as move through a guided yoga practice focused on opening your chakras and guiding the flow of healthy energy. There will be moments to reflect and manifest to create the reality that meets your desires. We will conclude our practice together to share our experience with others and leave to bring all of the good energy with us into the New Year. Participants will be provided with materials to write. Ticket price includes a Refresh hydrosol facial mist.
Jessica Velky, a Baltimore-native, mother of two mini yogis, a certified yoga teacher and reiki master. Her practice of yoga builds on both the physical and subtle body to create a deeper connection with oneself. She focuses on energy and drawing the group of different people together, that may have not connected before, at a higher-level tapping into the collective consciousness.
$50 per person
Like wild streams through mountain forests, Golden Aster’s harmonies wind their way through lush indie-folk soundscapes. Vocals take the spotlight, supported by unapologetically mellow grooves and spacious electric guitar.
After the tours of their respective projects were waylaid by the pandemic, Baltimore-based folk musicians Laura Wortman and Letitia VanSant each found solace in the woods, Laura hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and Letitia exploring the nooks and crannies of Herring Run Park. In the midst of both societal heartbreak and personal grief, they started writing songs that felt medicinal to sing and play. As friends who enjoyed harmonizing together, they decided to cozy up and record an album.
The results are contemplative, intimate, and easy to take in. Each song shares a different aspect of the healing and lessons they found in nature, with themes like letting go of control, embracing humility, and breaking free of others’ expectations.
Each established musicians in their own right, this project allows exciting new aspects of their artistry to shine. Laura Wortman has over a thousand shows under her belt as part of the celebrated experimental folk duo the Honey Dewdrops, but this album debuts her intuitive ease with the electric guitar. Letitia VanSant is known for well-considered lyrics, yet with this project she got out of her head and leaned on melodic sensibilities. The new album, Marcescence, released on September 8, 2023.
Tickets: $25 per person
Come early to shop The Barn Market (open 11:00am-8pm) and grab your refreshments before the show. Music begins at 6:00 and ends at 8:30.
This WILL be in the barn so no need to bring a chair. We will have tables and chairs provided and the space will be heated.
Dinner (menu TBA), Boordy Vineyards and Diamondback Brewery will be here serving drinks; all available for purchase.
No dogs allowed. Please consider this a date night and leave the kids at home!
** There is NO Physical ticket. At check out choose the option to pick up on the farm so that you will not be charged for shipping. Your name will be on the guest list when you check in.
The Old Part of Town returns to Star Bright Farm February 24
A unique shopping experience in our romantic 1850’s barn.
Live music, handmade chocolate, chef paired meats and cheeses.
Join us for the beautiful evening with husband and wife Americana duo The Honey Dewdrops!
Make Holiday shopping unique and special. Join us for Champagne shopping Thursday December 7, 4:30-7 pm
Join Sorrel King and Helen Norman for a cocktail and creative holiday shopping at Sorell’s Ruxton Home.
2000 Skyline Road Ruxton, MD
Have a Mimosa Morning with us while you sip and shop. Try one of our unique Tulsi ( Holy) Basil infused mimosas and discover the magic of our hydrosols as a spice splash!
Shop Small Business Saturday deals, featuring a free concert by Monkton Road Band.
Shop our Black Friday specials, complimentary champagne.
Fall Family Festival Saturday November 4
Bluegrass and Blueberry Beer, Saturday October 21 from 1:00PM - 5 PM
Big Band in the Barn : Saturday, October 14 2:30-5:30
Concert multi Grammy-Award winner Tim O’Brien and his wife Jan Jan Fabricius
It is always festive when the Mayo Family is playing on the hillside at Star Bright Farm. Join us for our last sunset concert of 2023 season! September 16 Gates open at 3:00, Music begins at 4:00 and plays till’ the sun sets
Piano concert in the barn with BSO keyboardist Lura Johnson
Piano concert in the barn with BSO keyboardist Lura Johnson
Mambo Combo comes to Star Bright Farm for a lively evening on the hillside
Join us for a Friday evening Broom Making workshop with Emileigh of Rhythm & Ritual
Michael Joseph Harris and Ensemble playing August 5, 2023. Sit on the hillside as the sun goes down and enjoy a magical evening.
Painting workshop with fine artist Patricia O’Brien
Lucky Dog Day Fundraiser with BARCS
Live Music, food, beverage & shopping
Lavender Festival Day 2
June 18, 2023
Day One of Lavender Festival. Music, Food, Shopping, Wagon Rides and Tour
Lavender Wreath Making Workshop
Sunset Concert with Monkton Road Band
Lavender Wreath Making Workshop with Sarah Malphrus
"Afternoon Tea" is best savored in the beautiful Spring "Barn Garden” whilst relaxing to the soothing sounds of Joseph Michael Harris and Alfonso Ponticelli as they summon Django Reinhardt style "Gypsy-Jazz". Please join us at 3:30 on Saturday May 20 for this very special spring treat.