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Mother’s Day Spring Faire at Cascade Garden!! Live music, food, beautiful gardens, awesome vendors, activities, beer and wine garden with our signature mimosas, complimentary photobooth, dance performances, a free flower for every mom …. and that’s not all. We donate proceeds to support local foster kids.
Here's a brief history of Spring Faire. Before it became the amazing fundraiser for local foster kids that it is today, the old Cascade Nursery kicked off the summer season for theor nursery and garden center. The tradition of celebrating Mother's Day was legendary! Everyone was welcomed to the nursery with live music and a bottomless pot of chili as they shopped for their spring plants and toured the amazing grounds. Many would bring their own lawn chairs and spend the whole day.
When we bought Cascade Garden in 2008, we received many calls in the spring asking if Mother's Day would be celebrated. So we decided to make an event of our own. We transformed this fun old yearly ritual into an NEW annual event, officially dubbed "Mother's Day Spring Faire." It's everything you might expect from a "fair" with an "e". We invite local artists and artisans to exhibit and sell their creations and handmade items. You might look forward to glass blowing, jewelry, repurposed goods, garden furnishings, bakery treats, fresh gourmet food, hand sewn items, and much more! All day live music, wine and beer garden, and flowers for sale.
By now, Mother's Day Spring Faire has truly become a legendary tradition in its own right. It's one of the few events actually hosted by Cascade Garden with the gardens are open to the public for all to enjoy. Generations of moms come to experience music in the gardens, do a little shopping, and eat good food. (Well, it's true, sometimes they come for the mimosas, too.) Every mom is presented with a free flower at the gate and everybody is treated to complimentary photobooth. (Thanks Photo Tap!) The festive atmosphere is undeniable.
But there's more to it than that. At Spring Faire, Mother's Day is all about supporting local foster kids. All of the proceeds from Mother's Day Spring Faire go directly to Voices for Children Foundation of Yakima, a local non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of local foster kids. Mother's Day Spring Faire was born out of our desire to give back to our community, and it has blossomed far beyond our imagination. We are grateful to a generous community for your outpouring of support for local foster kids. It's a joyous event and a great way to treat mom on her special day. But beyond that, the stories of how the funds raised on Mother's Day are used to enrich the lives of the most vulnerable children in our area are tremendous. We set the stage, but it is all of you who make Mother's Day Spring Faire so special and so successful.
PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION TO VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION AT http://voicesforchildrenyakima.org
Cascade Garden is located at 5704 W. Washington Ave, and can be reached at (509) 654-8788
Voices for Children Foundation
Dedicated to improving the lives of foster children in the Yakima Valley
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