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Harvest Faire 2024

  • Marin Waldorf School 755 Idylberry Road San Rafael, CA, 94903 United States (map)

Join us for one of Marin County’s most treasured events
for more than 40 years.

Come enjoy a day of magical games and family fun on Marin Waldorf School’s 10-acre Lucas Valley campus.

  • Old-fashioned games and booths, including Tunes & Treats, face painting, The Knight’s Quest, The Sleeping Giant, and The Mermaid Lagoon (more information below).

  • Delicious picnic food for sale, hosted by our 7th grade families. Bring a blanket to eat on the lawn!

  • Creative seasonal decor and a beautiful setting in our school’s majestic oak grove, sunny playground, and expansive playing field.

  • Come dressed in autumn colors or a fun seasonal costume!

* Admission is free. Tickets (on sale at the event) are required for booths, food, and drink.

All ages welcome! Please come out ... and bring along your family and friends!


booths & Games

Tunes & Treats. Think musical chairs, but with live music and homemade sweets! Whoever is standing on the chosen number when the music stops gets to pick out a home-baked treat.

The Knight’s Quest. Test your strength and agility in a fun all-ages ropes course that includes a zip line, swing, and tight rope! When you complete the course, you’ll be knighted by a queen or king.


The Sleeping Giant
Find the courage to sneak up to the Sleeping Giant and dash away with his beloved hen without waking him! Bold souls who steal the hen will be rewarded with a golden egg!

The Mermaid Lagoon
You need patience to catch a fish in the magical mermaid lagoon. Once you do, bring your catch to the friendly mermaid or merman, and you’ll receive an enchanted gift from the sea.


2024 vendors

Wildflower Felted Fairies & Seeds
Planting seeds in children's imaginations of the local pollinators precious work they are doing. Each lovingly hand felted Wild Meadow and Forest Fairy comes with a special message and offering. (Educational resources for making wildflower seed-balls and re-wilding practices also available.)


Alliance for Felix Cove
An educational opportunity for all community members to engage with Támal-ko history and culture and join the circle of Relatives who are re-Indigenizing land in California and beyond. The Alliance for Felix Cove works to protect, restore and rematriate the ancestral Coast Miwok/Tamalko homelands of the Felix Family at Point Reyes National Seashore, also aiming to deepen all peoples relationship to Mother Earth.


Cultural Threads
Fair trader Cultural Threads empowers women in the Peruvian Andes by providing them with a link to the world market. After helping 15 indigenous women form a cooperative, they work together to create sustainable knits that are good for us and our planet. The women raise the alpaca, spin the wool into yarn and hand-knit the entire 100% alpaca collection. Designed in Tahoe. Homegrown and handmade above 14,000 ft. in the Andes. 


Luke Garrison Woodwork
I turn wooden bowls, plates, platters, boxes, vases, spinning tops, and other round objects using salvaged trees that were once growing around the Bay Area. I work in my small workshop over by the seaplane landing site in Sausalito. It’s pretty nice to be able to see the whole process through — from a tree in a yard, to a slab, to a rough bowl blank, and after a year of curing and a whole lot of wood chips, see it turn into a beautiful salad bowl.


MEK Ceramics
My work is inspired by foggy days, saltwater sunrises and the scent of the redwoods. I create small batch collections and one-of-a-kind pieces in Mill Valley, CA. The mystery of the alchemical process between elements which occurs at 2000+ degrees Fahrenheit is something that never ceases to amaze me.


Threefold Medicine Apothecary
Anthroposophic Naturopathic Doctor, offering care for the whole family. Dr. Schmitt supports Waldorf schools throughout the Bay Area. Please come visit our Threefold Apothecary where we carry Anthroposophic remedies, nutritional supplements, crystals, toys, silks, local honey, high quality hot water bottles, string games, beeswax, candles and more!


Earlier Event: October 21
An Evening with Jack Petrash
Later Event: November 13
Middle School Preview