Spring has always been a symbol of growth and rebirth in the world. As our movement of love begins to take strides across the globe, we've witnessed the prosperity of new Desert Hearts communities fostering love and positive intentions. Our ultimate goal is to create communities world-wide that give artists and patrons a platform to express themselves and be the best people they can be. Our festivals are the light which guide this movement of love and our community is a role model for what can happen when people put their differences aside and come together in the name of love.
For our Spring Festival 2016, our intention is more clear than ever: Love. The world needs more love and that’s why Desert Hearts is here. Let’s shout from the mountain tops and practice what we preach. It’s time to make a difference in the world and it starts in the hearts and minds of our family.
Gates open for General Admission, Friday at 10am. Thursday early arrival passes allow admission Thursday at Noon. Music starts at 4pm on Friday and bumps nonstop until Monday at 4pm. Tickets include entrance, camping, and access to all open kitchens, theme camps, & art installations.
We are expecting a much larger response for our Spring Festival 2016 than ever before, but we have decided to limit our capacity to maintain our intimate One Stage, One Vibe philosophy of Desert Hearts. We highly encourage you to sign up for our family mailing list because everyone on our mailing list will have first priority to buy the cheapest tickets possible hours before tickets go on sale to the public. Our goal is to reward our most loyal Desert Hearts Family who have been so incredibly good to us as we've grown over the years.
For each tier we have a limited number of tickets for sale. After the tickets sell out at each tier, the price will increase to the next tier. Our last three festivals sold out relatively quick so act fast to ensure your spot is safe in the dust.
If you are planning to camp in the campgrounds with your vehicle, you will need a Car Camping Pass. If you are arriving in a RV or bus, you will need a RV pass or else you will not be allowed entry. If you don't need to camp directly next to your car, there is a huge parking lot about a 2-5 minute walk to the campgrounds where you'll be able to park and leave your car. It is literally the shortest festival walk you'll ever do so don't even trip when Car Camping Passes sell out.
Early Entry Passes allow entrance to the festival grounds on Thursday before music starts on Friday. If you would like to enter on Thursday you will still need a regular general admission pass as well.
*Note: All cars & RVs will have to pay the standard $20 Environmental Impact Fee upon arrival, even if you bought a Car or RV Camping Pass.
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HATTON — When Jeff Jones drove out to his pasture Monday with three buckets of barley and other grains for his cattle, the livestock couldn't wait for him to pour it out.
By the time he had emptied the second five-gallon bucket, several cows crowding around his pickup truck had already knocked over the third and were quickly finishing it off.
The field looks green from the road, Jones said, but there is little nutrition there for his animals. The tallest plants were rat's tail, an invasive weed with little nutritional value that cows avoid, with stunted Korean lespedeza.
“That grass this year ought to be about this tall,” Jones said, holding his hand at his thigh. “They would be standing knee-high in the grass and you can see that there’s hardly any grass there at all.”
The drought affecting Missouri farmers this year has driven up hay prices and forced farmers to switch from ponds to well water or public water supplies. Farmers are selling livestock, sending beef prices to one of the lowest levels in the past decade, and cut estimates of corn yields by about 20 percent.
On Monday, Gov. Mike Parson, along with several cabinet officials and representatives of farm groups, announced steps to make state grass and water available. Farmers and ranchers will be able to haul water from several state park and conservation areas and enter a lottery to mow hay on almost 900 acres of state-owned grasslands, Parson said.
During a news conference, Parson said the actions will help farmers manage the higher costs of sustaining their operations through the drought.
“Maybe we save some people’s businesses and farms out there and that’s what we are trying to do here today,” Parson said.
The Department of Natural Resources will conduct a lottery for hay cutting at 14 state parks and conservation areas, including 80 acres at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park in Boone County. Water may be taken from lakes and ponds at more than 30 locations, including Rudolf Bennitt Conservation Area, Rocky Fork Lakes Conservation Area and Finger Lakes State Park in Boone County.
Much of Missouri received rain Sunday evening and early Monday, and while participants in Parson’s news conference said it was helpful, it wasn’t enough. The National Weather Services recorded 0.31 inches of rain in Columbia overnight, bringing the total for the month to just under 1 inch. Since June 1, Columbia has received only half the average rainfall and the deficit for the year is more than 10 inches.
“These forages out in the field – just because we are getting some rain now doesn’t mean these forages are going to come back,” said Lloyd Gunter of the Missouri Dairy Association.
When the growing season began, Missouri was already short of rain but most of the state was not yet feeling drought conditions.
In mid-May, when most planting completed, only half the state was experiencing dry conditions and only a small fraction, 15 percent, was actually in what is termed moderate drought. Corn farmers rated their crop 71 percent good or excellent and 84 percent of livestock producers said they had enough water.
As of last Tuesday, 25 percent of the state, including most of Boone County, was in extreme drought and the fraction listed in exceptional drought included the Rocheport area and most of Howard County. Corn farmers are far more pessimistic about their fields, with 44 percent calling their crop poor or very poor in the weekly U.S. Department of Agriculture crop condition report released Monday. Fewer than half of the state's livestock producers had enough water and 80 percent were short of hay and other feed.
For cattle farmers, the drought means there is little grass to mow for hay for the winter and pastures are not producing enough to sustain herds through the summer. Jones runs Jones Angus Farms in Callaway County, where he and his family manage 300 cows and several hundred acres of row crops used to feed them.
“It is having a major impact,” Jones said. “It takes a lot of water to raise grass and there’s not a lot of water out there.”
During the last major drought, in 2012, Jones connected watering troughs to public water supplies and it's his last option if his wells go dry.
Importing hay from other states means prices have shot up and the transportation costs also are expensive, he said.
Parson owns a cattle farm in Polk County and is experiencing the effects of the drought himself. He is now using hay to feed livestock.