Hi Folks! In the interest of us starting to find each other AND have fun, Sat., June 23 is Free-Range Picnic Day! I’m hosting one in Monroe, New York (an hour and 20 mins from the city — reachable by car or bus), and some of YOU are hosting picnics, too! Below are the invites so far. If you would like to organize a picnic in YOUR neck of the woods — great. Just put the info in a comment, below. In a few days I’ll post about this again, with all the latest parties. Welcome summer!
LENORE’S POTLUCK PICNIC: MONROE, NY 10950
Date: Sat., June 23 (rain date: Sunday, June 24)
Time: 2- 10 p.m.
Place: Rosmarins Cottages, 12 School Road, Monroe, NY 10950
Directions by car (and pix of the place!): Bungalowsummer.com.
By bus: Take the Short Line bus from Port Authority to Monroe, NY at 1:15 or 3:10 (an hour and 20 min ride). We’ll pick you up from the bus (a 5 min ride).
Bring: Something yummy and bathingsuits!
RSVP and questions: heylenore3@gmail.com
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TACOMA, WASHINGTON
Date: Sat, June 23 (rain date: Sun. June 24)
Time: 2 – 5 p.m.
Place: Titlow Beach
Bring: A dish to share, shoes and towels for the kids who go crabbing on the rocky beach.
RSVP: soulemarilyn@yahoo.com
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SAMMAMISH, WASHINGTON
Date: Sat., June 23 (rain date: Sun, June 24)
Time: 11 a.m . – 1 p.m.
Place: Ebright Creek Park (1317 212th Ave SE, Sammamish, WA 98074)
Bring: Kids ready to play and have fun with new friends AND a picnic lunch for your family.
Hosts: Adam and Melanie
RSVP and questions: adamel@comcast.net
Official online invite, click here.
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ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
TIME: Anytime after 3 p.m. and stay for the potluck.
BRING: Food and other balls and game equipment. Also, your own eating-ware (plates, utensils), as this will be a no-waste event, too. Here’s the Facebook page. (5 families already coming!)
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18 Comments
christina- im interested
I would love to attend a picnic in Logan square, chicago! If we could do a week day or Sunday late afternoon it would be best for me. My son is at his dads on the weekends.
Love this idea. Wish I could go. The best would be to drop off the kids @ 2 and come back @ 10 to pick them up.
I’m a little bummed. We won’t have moved to Alameda yet when the party happens 🙁 The week after, we’d be there….but that’s the last week of my packing. ::sigh:: Perhaps next year…….
What a fun idea! To meet your people in real life. Love it. Wish we were going to be up there then but we don’t arrive east for another week. Have fun. And that little place looks amazing!
I am in the Des Moines, Iowa area. Anyone else in central Iowa interested?
Still pining away for the Bungalow Colony.
I’d love to have a party, but it’s a kid-free weekend for us (all four with the assorted co-parents) so my husband and I will be doing the adult version of Free Ranging, I guess. 😉
The bungalow colony does sound fabulous. I’m pining for it too.
When my daughter is old enough to actually run around unsupervised, and especially if it is still effectively illegal where I live to let her, I will want to spend some time at that bungalow colony. For now it would just be nice to talk to people who wouldn’t stare at me like I am insane, when I imagine our babies at elementary age walking off together. I’ll have to see if my schedule allows me to travel to the nearest picnic.
Christina, I’m interested in a Logan Square gathering.
I’ve just RSVP’d to the Rockville, MD picnic so it should be happening. I’m looking forward to meeting some fellow free-range parents.
Lucas County, OH, would likely work for me – not sure if we’d wind up going, but as we’re pretty much straight north (south end of Milan, MI) it wouldn’t be that far out of our way…
NW Chicago Suburbs: Who’s in? I’m happy to host, and am in the Arlington Heights/Mount Prospect area. I’ve got a happy 13-month old who loves kids, dogs, and people of all ages. If nobody in the burbs is listening…then Logan Square, I’ll come to you! -Irena
How about somewhere in the Toronto, ON area? Toronto Island? Sunnybrook/Serena Gundy/Wilket Creek park (Eglinton between Bayview & Leslie)? High Park? Mississauga?
GTA folks interested can email me at ebardon@gmail.com and we’ll work out a location that’s suitable for as many as possible.
@Jennifer – does a Sunday afternoon work for you? Another Logan Square parent is interested but can’t do Saturdays.
Irena – Logan Square would be happy to have you! Would Sunday the 24th work for you?
Christina – We’ll be hosting a picnic in Mount Prospect on Saturday, from 10am-1pm. (Evite here, for anyone interested: http://new.evite.com/l/K4R26D2XHZ.Thanks) for reaching out – we’d be happy to come to your picnic on Sunday, making it a double-free-range weekend (as long as our Saturday picnic isn’t rained out, in which case it would then move to Sunday). As a side note, I love the Logan Square area and used to live in Wicker Park.
Free Range parents in Nashville TN (I’m in south Nashville/North Franklin area) email me suznericward@gmail.com
Would love to meet like-minded parents in my area