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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Fwd: Fall Farm-Fest Oct 9
  • Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 20:11:15 -0600


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>The hands-on skills it took to run an Oklahoma farm in days gone by will
>once again be demonstrated at Fall Farm-Fest, Saturday, October 9, from
>9-4,
>at the Overstreet-Kerr Historical Farm, located on highway 59, about ten
>miles south of Sallisaw, OK.
>
>Visitors can see heritage breeds of cows, horses and turkeys, tour the
>historical home, and watch “pioneers” cook sorghum syrup. Other activities
>scheduled include demonstrations of Dutch oven cooking, making butter,
>soap,
>and sauerkraut, quilting, spinning cotton, weaving, flint knapping, hooking
>rugs, woodcarving, and blacksmithing,
>
>The annual festival is noted for its friendly, down-home atmosphere, giving
>visitors plenty of opportunities to visit with exhibitors.
>
> A display of restored John Deere antique farm equipment donated largely by
>people in southeastern Oklahoma will be showcased.
>
>Hay making equipment along with planters and cultivators show visitors how
>farming changed from 1830-1930. Members of the Arkansas Valley Antique
>Tractor Club will show visitors how some of the equipment was once used.
>
> “Farm-Fest offers visitors a relaxed day in the country as well as an
>opportunity to experience a little bit of old-time farm life,” says Jeremy
>Henson, education coordinator at the farm.
>
>Sorghum was once a staple of the farm kitchen in Oklahoma, and neighbors
>gathered together each fall to press the sorghum cane and cook the juice.
>This family atmosphere is recreated at Farm-Fest. The sorghum cane, grown
>nearby, will be pressed in a mill powered by draft animals. Then a crew of
>volunteer cookers will cook the sorghum in a traditional copper pan over a
>wood fire.
>
>Cooking the sorghum juice to the right consistency, with the right taste,
>is
>an art. The crew must tend the fire, skim the froth, and keep the juice
>boiling at just the right rate as the green juice is slowly transformed
>into
>thick, sweet, brown syrup.
>
>Also scheduled to be on display will be beautiful heirloom varieties of
>turkeys. These varieties have become rare and are in danger of extinction.
>For example, fewer than 5,000 Bourbon Reds, a deep red bird with black
>markings, which originated in the U.S., are left worldwide.
>
>The Overstreets were prosperous farmers and the elegant fourteen-room home
>they completed in 1895 is listed on the National Register of Historic
>Places. Other farm buildings such as the barn, chicken house, potato house
>and smoke house will also be open to visitors. The house offers handicapped
>access.
>
>Admission to Farm-Fest is five dollars for adults and three dollars for
>school-age youth, under six free. Groups of ten or more seniors can get in
>for $3 each. Groups should contact the farm in advance at 918.966.3396.
>
> Proceeds support free year-round educational programs for school children
>at the farm.
>For more information contact Jeremy Henson at 918.966.3396 or at
>okhfarm@crosstel.net. To learn more about the historical farm and Farm-Fest
>visit http://www.kerrcenter.com/overstreet/index.html
>
>
>

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