An annual event and fundraiser at Apifera Farm to help the farm's adopted old and needy barn animals.
Pino Pie Day 2014 will be in Sunday, June 15, 11-4
Free admission [a minimum $5 car donation is suggested - this event is to help raise money for the farm to maintain their adopted barn animals from other sanctuaries so please share what you can], Katherine's homemade pie is her gift to you as are the donkey hugs. Aprons donated from all over the country are hung on a line are are for sale. Katherine's art and the farm's lavender are also sold with proceeds going to help maintain the farm's many adopted barn animals.
Wheelchair accessible to Donkey Hug Area [not studio]
~ No smoking–it makes us cough
~ PLEASE leave your beloved pets at home. You can text them.
No pets will be allowed on premises.
~ Do not bring a pie to share–or it will be fed to the pig [liability].
~ Children must be accompanied at all times by a guardian. The Head Troll will enforce this.
Pies, donkeys and love all merge into one at Apifera. Once a year, a big pie party is thrown and total strangers come from far away to share farm energy, fresh pie, and donkey hugs. The results are magical. The event raises funds for Katherine's barnyard of Misfits.
Apifera is home to many barn animals adopted from needy situations - an old neglected donkey, an old goose and her flock of ducks, a sweetly grumpy pig and her crippled goat companion, old goats and many cats.
All ages merge here. Favorite quote from an eight year old fan of Pino, who said to her mother as she was leaving, "That was the best day of my life."
It all started when Katherine delivered a fresh pie to a nearby farm, with Pino the donkey at her side, and the gesture was so well received, that she realized she had to do it more, as a way to share two things she loved - pie and donkeys. But donkey pie deliveries took a long time, so she realized in one of her more brilliant moments, that she must bring the people to Pino, and share pie and donkey on a larger scale.
Click here to see pictures and posting about Pino and his pies, fun mail he receives and pictures from past Pie Days.
Want to help support Pino and his Pie Day?
One of Katherine's other missions is to bring the elderly, blind, physically challenged to Apifera to have healing times with donkeys and pie. She hopes to find a way to also take Pino out once or twice a year to have Pie Parties at local senior facilities. If you work with anyone in these areas, please contact Katherine if you are interested.
We are not open to the public except Pie Day and farm gates are securely closed any other time of year unless noted for other events. PLEASE leave your pets at home.
Directions to Apifera Farm: From Portland: about 45-60 minutes
99 to Newberg through Newberg to Hwy 240 [says to Yamhill, right at Fruit Market] Once in Yamhill, take right on Main St [also called Hwy 47] Go two blocks, just past school and and then the road begins to veer to the right - this is where you turn LEFT onto Pike Rd. The sign where you turn left says Pike Rd and Bailey's Nursery. It is a good idea to note your mileage as you turn on Pike.
You stay on Pike Rd [warning, you really don't see any signs saying Pike Rd after this] for about 5 miles and turn left on Tupper Rd. [if you miss Tupper Rd, Pike Rd becomes Turner Creek Rd]
Once on Tupper, our house is the 2nd farm on the right . You'll see mailbox with Dunns [14710], and white pasture fence, long driveway and house sits up on hill.
Some other notes: When you are Pike Rd, you'll go by Bailey's Nursery, and eventually you go through this little grove of trees and you'll see Rockyford on your left. That means you are almost to Tupper Rd.
Directions to Apifera Farm: From McMinnville: about 20 minutes
We are not open to the public except Pie Day and farm gates are securely closed any other time of year unless noted for other events. PLEASE leave your pets at home.
47 north up through Carlton and on into Yamhill
As you come into Yamhill, stay on 47 and it becomes the Main Street of the town. Drive about 5 blocks through town, past the school, and then the road begins to veer to the right - this is where you turn LEFT onto Pike Rd. The sign where you turn left says Pike Rd and Bailey's Nursery. It is a good idea to note your mileage as you turn on Pike.
You stay on Pike Rd [warning, you really don't see any signs saying Pike Rd after this] for about 5 miles and turn left on Tupper Rd. [if you miss Tupper Rd, Pike Rd becomes Turner Creek Rd]
Once on Tupper, our house is the 2nd farm on the right . You'll see mailbox with Dunns [14710], and white pasture fence, long driveway and house sits up on hill.
Some other notes: When you are Pike Rd, you'll go by Bailey's Nursery, and eventually you go through this little grove of trees and you'll see Rockyford on your left. That means you are almost to Tupper Rd.
