Date: Friday, September 24
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm - Pizza orders accepted, 6:30pm - Walking Farm Tour
Cost: Free, with food and beverage available for purchase
Event Details
A pizza night on the farm is a dining experience for the whole family featuring artisan pizzas made with ingredients from the farm and baked in an outdoor, wood-fired brick oven.
Pizzas may be taken home as carryout or enjoyed tailgate-style on the farm. Orders accepted 5:00 - 7:00pm.
A Local Food Week Walking Farm Tour will begin around 6:30pm.
Fridays on the Farm Pizza Nights
Hawkins Family Farm Pizza Nights on the farm are very popular, and were even recently featured in the New York Times. Plan to arrive early to choose your tailgating site. After you order your locally sourced pizza and local beer, enjoy the views of the farm while you wait for your pizza. Read all about “How it Works” and bring everything else you’ll need to enjoy a relaxing and delicious evening at the farm.
Email Jeff@hawkinsfamilyfarm.com with questions or visit hawkinsfamilyfarm.com
Hawkins Family Farm
We are a fourth-generation family farm outside of North Manchester, Indiana. We rotate cattle, hogs, poultry, field crops, and produce around our 99-acres using a whole-systems approach, and market our products through Community Supported Agriculture, an online store, and to restaurants. The farm also hosts weekly Fridays on the Farm pizza nights during the summer, which feature artisan pizzas made with locally-sourced ingredients and baked in an outdoor, wood-fired brick oven.
We use the health and wholeness of soils, waters, plants, animals, and people as the standard by which we farm. In practice, this means we grow our crops without the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides. Our animals are raised outdoors on pasture without subtherapeutic doses of pharmaceuticals, and our hogs and chickens are given a non-GMO feed ration that we mix on the farm.
While our farming could be called natural, biological, agroecological, or regenerative, due to the fact that we have chosen not to pursue USDA certification, we cannot legally call it “organic.” Instead, we opt to be "customer certified" (to borrow a phrase from Virginia farmer Joel Salatin). This means that our CSA members are always able to contact us with questions or visit the farm to see for themselves how their food is raised. In fact, we encourage it by hosting weekly pizza nights in the summer and occasional work parties. One of the reasons we love CSA is that it gives us the opportunity to see members face-to-face, during which we’re more than happy to talk your ear off about soil health, cover cropping, minimum tillage techniques, crop rotations, raising animals on pasture, and other practices we use.