2009 Events
July
1: Programs for Preschoolers will be offered in July on Wednesdays: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Each program will feature a different farm theme with a story, special visit to the farm, hands-on activity, and snack. Fee and preregistration required.
4: Old Vermont 4th - A traditional celebration featuring the reading of the Declaration of Independence at noon, wagon rides, historic debates, making 1890 flags, a spelling bee, ice cream making, and the egg toss.
7: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
8: Programs for Preschoolers will be offered in July on Wednesdays: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Each program will feature a different farm theme with a story, special visit to the farm, hands-on activity, and snack. Fee and preregistration required.
14: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
15: Programs for Preschoolers will be offered in July on Wednesdays: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Each program will feature a different farm theme with a story, special visit to the farm, hands-on activity, and snack. Fee and preregistration required.
17: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
18: Cow Appreciation Day – Dairy education programs, judging Jerseys with the farm manager, butter and ice cream making. Have fun with dairy trivia in the Cowlege Bowl competition for all ages.
21: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
22: Programs for Preschoolers will be offered in July on Wednesdays: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Each program will feature a different farm theme with a story, special visit to the farm, hands-on activity, and snack. Fee and preregistration required.
24: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
25: Sheep Herding with Border Collies – Border Collies demonstrate their instincts and training as they herd sheep in the farm fields. Learn how we care for our Southdown flock and why this breed was important on this farm a century ago. Spinning, carding, and weaving.
28: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
29: Programs for Preschoolers will be offered in July on Wednesdays: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Each program will feature a different farm theme with a story, special visit to the farm, hands-on activity, and snack. Fee and preregistration required.
31: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
August
1 - September 27: Quilt Exhibition – Our 23rd annual juried exhibition of colorful and exquisitely designed quilts made in Windsor County, Vermont. Quilting demonstrations and activities for children and adults.
4: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
7: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
9: Antique Tractor Day – See tractors dating from the 1930s to the 1960s and learn more from the folks who restored them; narrated tractor parade at 1:00 p.m. Tractor-drawn wagon rides and tractor activities for children. Plan to purchase lunch at the Teago Volunteer Fire Department.
11: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
14: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
18: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age! Offered each Tuesday through August 25th.
21: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
25: Time Travel Tuesdays - Lend a hand with 19th century chores and past times in the farmhouse. There's plenty of work - and fun - for every age!
28: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
September
1 - 27: Quilt Exhibition – Our 23rd annual juried exhibition of colorful and exquisitely designed quilts made in Windsor County, Vermont. Quilting demonstrations and activities for children and adults.
4: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
5: Traditional Craft Saturdays – Explore a series of Vermont crafts from experienced crafters, learning about the history, process, and uses of these utilitarian and decorative items through hands-on learning. Each Saturday in September.
7: Labor & Leisure – Work and fun on the farm! Horse-drawn wagon rides, building a split rail fence, ice cream making, and laundry the old-fashioned way – using a washboard and wringer!
11: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
12: Traditional Craft Saturdays – Explore a series of Vermont crafts from experienced crafters, learning about the history, process, and uses of these utilitarian and decorative items through hands-on learning. Each Saturday in September.
18: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
19: Traditional Craft Saturdays – Explore a series of Vermont crafts from experienced crafters, learning about the history, process, and uses of these utilitarian and decorative items through hands-on learning. Each Saturday in September.
25: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
26: Traditional Craft Saturdays – Explore a series of Vermont crafts from experienced crafters, learning about the history, process, and uses of these utilitarian and decorative items through hands-on learning.
October
2: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
3 & 4: Pumpkin & Apple Celebration – Hands-on activities and educational programs highlight these two versatile fall crops. Apple and pumpkin displays, apple tasting, cider pressing, pumpkin bowling, apples-on-a-string, making pumpkin ice cream, cooking apple butter and wagon rides. Annual Pumpkin Sale begins!
9: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday. Each Friday through October 16th.
10 & 11: Harvest Weekend – A Top 10 Fall Event! Join in this celebration of the Vermont harvest featuring a traditional husking bee and lively barn dance; cider pressing, putting food by, and historic games; spiced cider & homemade doughnuts.
16: Foodways Friday - Discover how we use our heirloom garden vegetables in historic recipes prepared in the farmhouse kitchen each Friday.
17 & 18: Wagon Ride Weekend – Capture the colors of a Vermont autumn on a narrated wagon ride around the fields; farm programs and activities.
25: A Family Halloween – A not-so-scary celebration designed especially for young children. Doughnuts on a string, pumpkin carving for families, Halloween tales, plus wagon rides. Costume parades at 12:00 and 2:00 p.m. Children in costume accompanied by an adult admitted free!
November
7 & 8; 14 & 15; 21 & 22: Wagon Ride Weekends - Horse-drawn wagon rides; visit the dairy farm and farmhouse; programs and activities. 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
27-29: Thanksgiving Weekend – A Top 10 Winter Event! Join us for traditional Thanksgiving activities and programs in the 1890 Farm House. Horse-drawn wagon rides. 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
December
11: 1:00 - 3:30 p.m., 12 & 13 - 10:00-3:30 p.m. Wassail Weekend - Tour the 1890 Farm House – authentically decorated for the season – and make a historic Christmas ornament. Special activities: Saturday: traditional music performed in the parlor at noon. Sunday: horse-drawn sleigh or wagon rides.
December Weekends & Dec. 26-Jan. 3: Christmas at the Farm – A Top 10 Winter Event! Visit the authentically decorated farmhouse and enjoy the aroma of holiday baking; tour the working dairy farm; make a historic ornament. Traditional music performed in the parlor on selected days. 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Dec. 26-Jan. 3 - horse-drawn sleigh ride or wagon rides (weather permitting).
2010 Events
January & February Weekends: Visit the working dairy farm and tour the restored & furnished 1890 Farm House – a model of efficiency in its day. A Place in the Land, an Academy Award-nominee film which chronicles the development of the Billings Farm is shown each hour in the theater. 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Sleigh Rides – January 16, 17, 18; February 13 - 21 Horse-drawn sleigh rides and sledding with jack jumper sleds; visits to the working dairy farm and restored farmhouse. 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
