Community Stories, Climate Realities Featured September 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm First Thursdays The Farminary 4200 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ, United States Rev. Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean joins us for a candid conversation about faithful experimentation in a fragile world. Drawing on Dean’s work in social innovation and ministry and Stucky’s leadership in ecological formation, they will explore how Christian communities discern when to act boldly, how to cultivate courage without recklessness, and how risk can become a site of spiritual growth. The dialogue will invite participants to consider how uncertainty itself may be fertile soil for hope.
Community Stories, Climate Realities — Film Screening & Q&A Featured September 10 @ 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm First Thursdays The Farminary 4200 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ, United States Set against the living landscape of the Farminary at Princeton Theological Seminary, this early screening with Allison Carruth offers a rare glimpse into her forthcoming documentary with BlueLab Media. Featuring vignettes from the California Film Project, the evening explores the fragile and resilient worlds of oysters, giant kelp, and abalone—and the human communities intertwined with them in a changing climate. Surrounded by fields, water, and wildlife, the Farminary becomes an extension of the film itself, inviting deeper attention to the stories shaping our ecological future. A Q&A with Carruth will follow.
Farminary Fest 2026 September 26 The Farminary 4200 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ, United States Farminary Fest 2026 is a day of gathering, exploration, and shared discovery at the intersection of land, food, creativity, and reflection. Set on the Farminary’s working farm, the festival brings together neighbors, friends, and newcomers from across the region for a full day of experiences designed to deepen connection—with one another, with the earth, and with the questions that shape how we live. From morning worship and hands-on workshops to a chef-led tasting of seasonal bites and an evening conversation and poetry reading with Jessica Jacobs, Farminary Fest invites participants into a rhythm of attentiveness, generosity, and wonder. It is a space to slow down, engage big ideas about faith and ecology, and experience the farm as a living place of learning and imagination.
Food, Nature, and the Creative Life Featured October 1 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm First Thursdays The Farminary 4200 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ, United States Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees, joins us for a conversation rooted in land and table. Over dinner, we will explore how attention to food and the natural world nourishes both artistic practice and spiritual formation. Drawing on poetry, personal story, and the Farminary’s working farm, the dialogue will invite participants to savor creativity as an embodied, ecological act. $120
Food, Nature, and the Creative Life — Poetry Reading & Conversation Featured October 1 @ 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm The Farminary 4200 Princeton Pike, Princeton, NJ, United States Set against the living landscape of the Farminary at Princeton Theological Seminary, this early screening with Allison Carruth offers a rare glimpse into her forthcoming documentary with BlueLab Media. Featuring vignettes from the California Film Project, the evening explores the fragile and resilient worlds of oysters, giant kelp, and abalone—and the human communities intertwined with them in a changing climate. Surrounded by fields, water, and wildlife, the Farminary becomes an extension of the film itself, inviting deeper attention to the stories shaping our ecological future. A Q&A with Carruth will follow.
