Spring Plowing Day

Join us for our first ever spring event on the Farm. We'll plow the fields using draft horses and antique tractors, to get ready for spring planting. There were plenty of other springtime activities on a 1930s-1940s family farm, and you'll see demonstrations on butter making, herbal concoctions, sheep shearing, weaving and wool carding and spinning. Cooking over a campfire, a pedal tractor pull, and spring chickens will be part of the fun! Plowing depends on the weather, but most activities will… Show more take place rain or shine. You also can visit the 1890s barn that has been reconstructed at the Farmstead.

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