Presenting legendary folk musician Richie Havens in the 2010 Strolling of the Heifers New England Farm Relief Concerts!

Two great shows:

Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at the Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, NH. PURCHASE TICKETS: www.lebanonoperahouse.org, or the theater box office, 603-448-0400. Tickets: $45, $35 and $25
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. PURCHASE TICKETS: www.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets: $45, $35, $25. Following the Brattleboro show, there will be a post-concert reception, with tickets available at $15 in combination with any ticket level.

Opening both shows for Richie Havens will be singer-songwriter Meg Hutchinson, whose new album, "The Living Side," was released in February.

MORE INFO.

Great parade, great festival, great weekend!

Thanks to everyone who joined us for Strolling of the Heifers Weekend — June 4-5-6, 2010. If you missed it, mark your calendar now for the Tenth Anniversary Stroll, June 3-4-5, 2011!

Bread baking contest results:

Jean Sarnie, with her Dante's Blueberry Quick Bread, is the Grand Prize winner in our Pro-Am Bread Baking Contest. We've posted the full list of winners at the contest page.

Photos and news coverage:

Our Facebook Fans have posted a bunch of 2010 Stroll pictures. (Thanks Roger Katz, Mary Stromberg, Susan Lampe-Wilson, Sandra Thomas!) Please visit our Facebook page, become a Fan (click "Like"), view photos, video and comments of other Fans about this year's Parade, Festival and other events, and post your own!

We've started posting our own pictures on Flickr — this is work in progress; more are on the way, and we need to add titles to most of them. Here's our parade set as a slideshow.

More photo, video and news coverage links:

Chris Garafolo wrote the wrap-up in Monday's Brattleboro Reformer.
Check out Caleb Clark's iReport for CNN.com.
View the Reformer's parade video.
Jeff Potter, editor of Brattleboro's new weekly newspaper, The Commons, has posted 24 pages of pictures!
The Rutland Herald headlined its piece "Let's Rock and Stroll" — thanks to Patrick McArdle for the coverage!
Josh Stilts wrote "The Cows Come Home" forthe Keene Sentinel, with photo gallery.
Stevil has posted some pix at iBrattleboro.com, including a few of our favorite "living statue" from New England Youth Theatre.
Phil Innes of Vermont Views magazine has posted 54 nice pictures taken at the Stroll.
Save Your Ass Donkey Rescue posted a video of its parade unit.
Our friends from groSolar had a precision (sort of) umbrella team in the parade — here they are practicing their routine.
Check out Flickr photos and sets from Hadleygrass is Asparagus, Storm, Ashuelot03441, Amy Boemig (2010 pix at end of set), Kaymoshusband and Alniebel — and more via this Flickr search.
Check out this bird's eye view of the parade from Ryan Storm.
Ellen O'Connor has posted a nice set of photos on Facebook.

Program Book

To download a copy of our 2010 Program Book, click here (2.73 MB PDF).

Merchandise:

If you missed the chance to stock up on Heifer Gear at the parade, please visit our online store!

BUHS Band photo by Bob Gaffney, used under Creative Commons License.

Win $100 in Strolling gear in our Facebook teeshirt contest!

We want to see where you're wearing your Strolling teeshirts! Are you visiting exotic locations like our friend David at the Eiffel Tower? Or just hanging out in your own backyard? Either way, post your Strolling teeshirt photos at our Facebook page, and we'll pick the most interesting, creative photo to win $100 in gear from our Strolling of the Heifers Online Store.

Get your camera out and enter today! Deadline for entries is July 31.

(Truth be told, David is in Paris courtesy of Photoshop, but we're really looking for undoctored photos!)

No need to provide contact info — we'll notify the winner via a Facebook message.

The Strolling of the Heifers Microloan Fund: A credit resource for New England's farmers

In partnership with Chittenden Bank and The Carrot Project, we have created The Strolling of the Heifers Microloan Fund for New England Farmers.

The mission of the fund is to address the difficulty that some New England farmers have in obtaining credit for projects that improve their operations and increase their income, as well as for emergency needs.

Several sources contributed initial capital for The Microloan Fund for New England farmers: four “Farm Relief” benefit concerts generously given by the legendary folksinger Pete Seeger, his grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, and bluesman Guy Davis in September, 2008 and by the Paul Winter Consort in September, 2009; major grants from the Thomas Thompson Trust and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters; and private investments made through The Carrot Project.

What's a heifer?

That's a question we're often asked. The answer is simple:

A heifer is a young cow who has not yet had a calf of her own. And who is very cute, as you can see.

Come to the Strolling of the Heifers Parade on Saturday, June 5 to see nearly 100 heifers, bedecked with flowers, ambling up Brattleboro's historic Main Street. Be prompt — the parade starts at 10 a.m. sharp, and the heifers lead the parade!

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