Mother’s Day Celebration: Honoring Corn Mother (Make • Taste • Plant)

🌽💐 A Celebration of Mothers

Mother’s Day is a celebration of love, nourishment, and the many ways care is given through families, community, and the earth itself. In many traditions, Corn Mother is honored as a life-giver: a symbol of abundance, nourishment, and the sacred relationship between people, seeds, and soil.

At Cultivating Connections Montana, we’re gathering on Mother’s Day to celebrate corn as a teacher and a gift and to honor all forms of mothering: mothers, grandmothers, aunties, mentors, caregivers, and anyone who helps life and love grow.

✨ What You’ll Do (Activities)

Drop in, wander, and join activities at your own pace. There will be multiple stations running throughout the event:

Hands-On Stations

• Corn Husk Doll Making + Storytelling
  Make a traditional-style corn husk doll and enjoy stories that celebrate corn, gratitude, and seasonal connection.
• Freshly-made Corn Tortilla & Snack Tasting
  Enjoy tasting fresh corn tortillas while learning the basics of turning corn into something delicious and also enjoy other yummy snacks!Seed Mandala Making
  Create a beautiful, meditative seed mandala design ~ an artful way to reflect on abundance and the cycle of life.
• Origami Flower Making ~ fold beautiful paper blooms to take home (all ages welcome).
• “All Things Corn” Mini-Talk
  A fun corn chat about its history, varieties, uses, and why corn remains a cornerstone food around the world.
• Three Sisters Seeding (Corn • Beans • Squash)
  Plant Three Sisters seeds into cups to take home! Starts not taken home can be shared or distributed so more gardens can grow across our community.

🌱 Bonus: Guests are welcome to tour the farm during the event and soak in the amazing views of the Bitterroot Valley surrounding the farm!

🦆🐓 Farm Tour + Animal Visits

This gathering takes place on a living, working farm. You’re invited to enjoy the beauty of the land and meet the farm residents: ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys, pigs, and goats.