Staff Reports
Friday, October 3, 2014 8:40 am
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MILTON - Farm Harvest Day is set for Saturday at the New Hampshire Farm Museum with a focus on interaction with children in showing the cultural history and flavor of local farming.
Children will be able to join in the harvest and dig up potatoes, press apples to make cider, enjoy a living history farmhouse tour and learn about preserving the harvest.
There will also be bobbing for apples, corn grinding and applesauce making.
Horse-drawn wagon rides around the farm with the team from Belgian Meadows Farm in Lebanon will also be available.
Farm Museum volunteers will show how to make corn husk dolls and potato prints to take home, while a blacksmith will be pounding metal down in the blacksmith shop.
Admission to the day's activities including the horse drawn wagon rides is $7 per adult and $4 per child ages 4-17 yrs.
The New Hampshire Farm Museum is located on White Mountain Highway halfway between Milton and Milton Mills. For more info go to www.farmmuseum.org.