Each year we open up the pastures and host two festivals that celebrate the changing of the seasons.

In October, when the foliage of our sugar maples is at its peak, the Harvest Festival features historic demonstrations such as broom and rope making, open hearth cooking, and blacksmithing. It's also a time to try your hand at some traditional crafts like pumpkin decorating, cornhusk doll and grapevine wreath making, and beeswax candle rolling.  

In mid-May the Founders' May Fair is a time to welcome the return of the growing season. Our pastures come alive with Maypole dancing, Morris dancing, sheep shearing, sheep dog demonstrations, spinning and other traditional crafts. Each year we feature a special guest and in 2011 Hope Douglas of Wind Over Wings did a birds of prey demonstration.