Welcome to the
4th Annual
Hudson Valley
Nut Fest!
Sunday, Nov. 16 11am - 6pm @ Rose Hill Farm in Red Hook, NY
Nut Fest Activites
Screen printing and black walnut dyeing with Lou Marie Judge
Join Lou at the merch station for hands on black walnut dyeing and screen printing! We will have screen printed t-shirts featuring the 2025 nut fest logo and plain bandanas for sale that can be dyed on site. Attendees are welcome to bring fabric from home to dye. We will also have the screen printer on site, so folks are also welcome to bring t-shirts, sweatershirts, and other clothing they would like to screen print.
All Day
Seed engraving with Sergey Jivetin
We are honored to be hosting “Furrow”, a seed engraving project by Sergey Jivetin. This project highlights and celebrates the wondrous stories of plant seeds and seed-savers, and memorializes these narratives into seeds themselves. Sergey will uncover and highlight the deep connections between plants and humans by engraving seeds from the nut community. Attendees are invited to come witness the engraving, and some attendees maybe be asked to participate in storytelling.
All Day
Acorn processing workshop with Mark Ressl
There is no one we know who has processed more acorns for flour than our dear friend Mark Ressl. Learn all the ins and outs of acorn processing at his workshop. Mark and his partner Sage also run an inspiring project called Giving Trees. Based in the Hudson Valley, it is a project rooted in reciprocity where buying acorn flour helps plant epic nut trees in the region. They will be one of our vendors this year selling seriously delicious acorn products.
11:30 AM - 1 PM
Cooking demo with Chef Renee Baumann
Forager, chef, and basket weever Renee Baumann will demonstrate how to make gnochi with chestnut flour from Breadtree Farms, one of the vendors of Nut Fest. Samples included, of course!
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Presentation on “Northeastern Native Peoples and Nut Bearing Trees” By Justin Wexler
The abundance of oaks, hickories, and walnuts in many parts of the Northeast can be directly traced to millennia of indigenous land management practices. For this presentation, Justin Wexler of Wild Hudson Valley will take a crack at describing the many different ways in which Northeastern Native peoples have relied on these beautiful, useful trees.
A life-long resident of the Hudson Valley, Justin Wexler has dedicated his life to learning everything he can about the lives, land management practices and ethnoecology of the region's original human inhabitants. Through his organization, Wild Hudson Valley, Justin regularly hosts Lenape/Mohican visitors on ancestral homeland visits from their contemporary displaced communities. He and his wife Anna Plattner also work tirelessly to connect the area’s current residents to nature through guided walks, boat tours, presentations and workshops.
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Kids activites with Nicole Brodeur
11:00 am - 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Activites include: nut scavenger, storytime with “Because of an Acorn” by Adam Schaefer and Frann Preston-Gannon, and arts and crafts