2008 Farm Fest and Farm Fest for Kids have been cancelled
Come visit when it's fall in the hills of Oklahoma, when the sky is the deepest, cleanest blue, the hillsides are turning bronze, and the sorghum is ready to harvest.
The annual Fall Farm-Fest is held the second Friday and Saturday each October. Friday is reserved for school groups. On Saturday, the festival is open to the general public from 9 a.m - 4 p.m.Volunteers demonstrate activities and crafts common on farms one hundred years ago. At past festivals, these have included blacksmithing, herb craft, soap making, Dutch oven cookery, rifle making, quilting, and the use of antique farm equipment.
Not
to be missed is an authentic piece of Americana: sorghum cooking.
Locally grown sorghum cane is first milled by draft power.
Then experienced hands cook it down in the traditional way,
over an open fire. The result is sweet, delicious sorghum,
akin to molasses, once the sweetener of choice across America.
In the fall, neighboring farm families used to gather at the
sorghum pan to taste the new syrup. Today, cooking sorghum
is an almost-lost art, resurrected each year at Farm-Fest.
More Information:
Contact Jessica Castillo at 918.647.8749 or jcastillo@kerrcenter.com
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