Sorghum Festival: Music Festival & Community Harvest

The Haki Farmers Collective is proud to announce the first annual Sorghum Festival taking place on October 11 & 12 on the collective farm just 20 minutes south of Olympia.

Join a vibrant weekend filled with music, vendors, camping, and sorghum learning and harvesting!

What is Sorghum? Sorghum is an African indigenous cereal grain that holds rich food traditions for Black and Brown communities across the world. The communal hand harvest of sorghum is a time-honored tradition throughout the African continent, where sorghum is a staple grain that predates corn and wheat. While sorghum is native to North Africa, its cultural and culinary impact spans the world, holding a significant place in the foodways of peoples from South East Asia, the Middle East, the American South, the Caribbean, and beyond! Sorghum is high in nutritional value as a milled grain as well as its unique sugar-filled stalks, which we press and boil into sorghum molasses.

This festival will be a celebration of this indigenous African grain that the Haki growers have been learning to cultivate. Growing sorghum gives us the opportunity to keep this legacy alive, while reconnecting the wider public to regenerative grain cultivation that is inherent in traditional African foodways.

Live music by:
- Trust Fall
- Montgomery Brown & the Cowboy Apocalypse
- Mazigazi
- The Beehees
- Siempre Bruja
- Lace Bass N’ Suitcase
- Sunflower Season
- Desejo
- Yarrow
- Catch
- Fed Soul
More artists to be announced!

Art Installations by:
Revolutionary Grains & the Solidarity Art Collective

Vendors:
Enjoy local food, arts, crafts, education, and seed swapping from the vendor market!

Cash is highly encouraged as service can be spotty on the property. Interested in becoming a vendor? Email the organizers.

Camping:
Enjoy both days of the festival and camp out on the farm!

Seeking volunteers:
Want to help the Sorghum Festival run smoothly? Send an email to join the volunteer team!

Tickets:
- Adult Day Pass: $25
- Adult Weekend Pass: $40
- Youth 13 - 18 Day Pass: $15
- Youth 13 - 18 Weekend Pass: $25
- Kids 12 & under FREE
- Group ticket discounts and equity scholarship tickets available, email us for details.

Location: Near Littlerock Elementary (address revealed at checkout)

Learn more about our work at Hakifarmers.org