33rd Annual Harvest Weekend Featured at Billings Farm & Museum

33rd Annual Harvest Weekend Featured at Billings Farm &Museum
 
     WOODSTOCK, VERMONT... The Billings Farm & Museum, gateway to Vermont’s rural heritage, will host the 33rd Annual Harvest Weekend on October 7 & 8, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  The weekend features a husking bee and barn dance, plus a variety of 19th century harvest activities and programs for the entire family.
      A traditional husking bee will begin at noon each day, followed by a barn dance from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.  Lend a hand pressing cider, preserving apples, threshing grain, and making butter and ice cream.  Harvesting the heirloom vegetable garden will be nearing completion and children can help dig potatoes and other root crops and learn how crops are “put up” for the winter.
     Other activities include:  shelling beans, fence building, apples-on-a-string, and 19th century games. Hot-spiced cider and homemade doughnuts will be on hand for all!  Admission includes all programs and activities. 
     The Billings Farm & Museum is owned and operated by The Woodstock Foundation Inc., a charitable non-profit institution.  For further information: 802/457-2355 or www.billingsfarm.org.
 
     Billings Farm is an operating Jersey dairy farm that continues a 146-year tradition of agricultural excellence and offers farm programs and historical exhibits that explore Vermont’s rural heritage and values.  The Farm & Museum has served as a gateway to Vermont’s rural heritage for over 1.7 million visitors and 340,000 of the region’s school children. Open daily
April  1 through October 31, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., weekends Nov. – Feb., and Christmas & Presidents’ weeks, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Admission: adults: $15.00; 62 & over: $14.00; children 5-15: $8.00; 3-4: $4.00; 2 & under: free.  The Farm & Museum is located one-half mile north of the Woodstock village green on Vermont Route 12.  For information: 802/457-2355 or www.billingsfarm.org.