{"id":9783,"date":"2022-10-23T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lomavistafarm.org\/lomavista\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:26:17","slug":"loma-vista-farms-harvests-family-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lomavistafarm.org\/lomavista\/loma-vista-farms-harvests-family-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Loma Vista Farms harvests family time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yearly fall event includes apple cider, train rides, puppet shows and a ton of kids
\n<\/strong>By Thomas Gase
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Per usual, Loma Vista Farms in Vallejo was full of animals, apple cider, train rides and puppet shows on Saturday. However, when Loma Vista Farms Events Chair Jennifer Shinar was asked<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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what her favorite part about the farm\u2019s annual Harvest Festival was, she didn\u2019t hesitate.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, the kids. No doubt. Seeing their faces light up when they see everything here,\u201d Shinar said. \u201cThat\u2019s what keeps me coming back year after year. I especially like seeing them with the old-school cider house. I love watching the kids crank it up and then crush it and then taste it. We do it every year and I love watching the kids\u2019 reaction to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event also featured wool spinning, plenty of pumpkins and a bean bag toss. The wool from the spinning comes from the sheep and the alpacas at the farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really gives the kids an opportunity to see what everything comes from,\u201d Shinar said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the grocery store.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I like is that you see families spending time together,\u201d Executive Board member John Muras said. \u201cAnd we make things low cost. It\u2019s nice to come to events like this and not spend thousands of dollars. There are fun games for everyone to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shinar said that the yearly event takes about two months of planning, but this year\u2019s event was a little easier, with 55 volunteers featuring Cal Maritime cadets, Vallejo High School students and even a couple from Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really hectic in the morning setting everything up, but the volunteers help so much,\u201d Shinar said. \u201cThere is no way this can happen without them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirsten Caesar was at the event with her kids, Rory (5) and Kaylee (10 months), as well as Kristi Clover. Rory said his favorite part of the day was \u201cthe robots, petting the bunnies and the train rides.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my God, he loves trains, so we knew we had to come here when we found out about this,\u201d Kirsten said. \u201cWhen we were on the train his eyes were all wide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nadia Caludatos was at the event with her young son.<\/p>\n

\u201cA friend of mine told me about this and we knew we had to come,\u201d Caludatos said. \u201cWe had been to the farm before but not for this event. We had come to spring events and summer events but nothing for the fall. He really loves pumpkins so this was very nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event helps raise funds to help the site\u2019s infrastructure. Next week the site will begin construction on a new lower pasture fence, scheduled to be completed in about two weeks.<\/p>\n

Saturday, however, was all about families and children.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a generational thing as well,\u201d Muras said. \u201cSomeone came here and said they used to come here 20 years ago, but this time they brought their own kids. Twenty years had gone by, but she still knew a lot of the names of the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in Vallejo, so I used to come here as a kid,\u201d Shinar said. \u201cSeeing everything go down today really brings everything full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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