Billings Farm & Museum Kicks Off 2010 Season with a New Event: Spring Farm Festival Weekend
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT . . . Billings Farm & Museum, gateway to Vermont's rural heritage, kicks off its 28th season with Spring Farm Festival Weekend on May 1 & 2, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. – featuring two days of traditional farm activities, including the shearing of the farm's Southdown sheep and plowing competitions, wagon rides, and more.
The shearing of the farm's Southdown ewes will take place in narrated programs on both days, at 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30, and 3:30 p.m., with demonstrations of the skills required to turn fleece into yarn.
Farmers from the region will match plowing skills with their teams of draft animals: oxen on Saturday and horses on Sunday. Competitors will be judged on their technical skills and how well they work with their teams in the walking and sulky categories in this spring ritual, hosted by Billings Farm for the past 24 years. Visitors can try their hand plowing behind the Billings' team. New this year! – a plowing competition for visitors, which will begin at 1:00 p.m., each day; no prior experience is necessary!
Additional activities include horse-drawn wagon rides, ox programs, butter making, and historic games. The Teago Volunteer Fire Department will sell lunch and snacks, with all proceeds to benefit the fire department.
Admission: adults: $12.00; over 62: $11.00; children 5-15: $6.00; 3-4: $3.00; under 3: free.
