2010 Harvest Festival

On October 2nd, we attended the Agricultural History Farm Park Harvest Festival as a early family celebration for my birthday that was the next day! :-)  Yeah for turning 29! 

The Fall Harvest Festival is a family fun day of old-time crafts, live music, food and tons of down-home on the farm fun.

The Alpacas were interesting to watch, especially when they were being rounded-up and were running in the opposite direction of their herders!! :-)

The other day Jillian told me she wanted a cat "just like the one we saw at the farm".  I was super surprised, because our friends have a cat and whenever Jillian sees it, she literally screams and runs the other way.  Then she added quickly, "I think we should keep it in a cage just like the one we saw in the barn."  LOL! She wanted our family to have a cat that we could keep locked up.  

We enjoyed discovering what a typical barn includes and what tools a farmer uses to tend his farm! 

Jillian first had a try at churning cream into butter

Then it was Faith's turn to churn the cream into butter.

One of the passport stations for the children was "Goat Education" and we got to brush the hair of a goat! Faith and I were the only ones willing to do it, and we had a great time! 

Then we went to go look at some of the gardens and Jillian and Faith both made butterflies as a craft. 

Faith with one of the sweet volunteers and helping choose the flowers she wanted in her own tussie mussie.

I have since forgotten, but while there, we learned about the different meanings of the flowers and why the tradition of tussie mussies was important in the Victorian Age. Ladies would keep the tussie mussies close to their nose while walking down the smelly streets (lots of sewage...YUCK).  Its funny because I had a lot more romantic view of the Victorian Age than that, but the reality is it really STUNK! :-)

The girls were so proud of their beautiful flowers. 

A historical steam-powered tractor.  It was loud and whistled just like a steam locomotive for a train, but it is actually a tractor!  How Cool!!!

It was the perfect day to enjoy the farm and we are looking forward to going back next year and experiencing even more of the FARM FUN.