Join us on September 14 at King Commons Park for the 2024 Umoja Festival!! We’ll kick it off with a parade at 11 am from Carver Rec to King Commons. The opening ceremony starts at 12 pm! Live music includes gospel music from local churches and groups, Johnson City’s very own, Ishmael Nehemiah, saxophonist Rhoda G, M’Soul, and The Company Band!  Featuring a bilingual health fair, the Kids’ Zone, food vendors, merchandise vendors, arts and crafts, resources, and MORE! We can’t wait to see you!

The Sorghum Festival for Tipton-Haynes is developed around the need for sweeteners for foods in the past. Sugar was really expensive to get sent all the way up from the Caribbean and sugar cane could not grow up here. Sorghum is a different variety of this plant that can grow in our soils and produces Sorghum Molasses. The process is the same as you harvest the cane, crush it for the juices, and then boil the juice into a sticky molasses. This can then be used to sweeten just about anything you cook. We do all of this process on site, growing the cane in the garden, crushing the cane with our mill and a local volunteer's mule, and then...