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News from Garfield Farm |
Volunteers interested in helping at
Garfield Farm Museum's 25 Annual Harvest Days on September 29 and
October 1 need to contact the museum at (630) 584-8485 or email
info@garfieldfarm.org. School classes that would like to attend the
September 29 Student Harvest Days need to make reservations as soon as
possible as space is limited.
At Harvest Days, historic household and farm
skills are demonstrated to reflect the future operation of Garfield
Farm Museum when all its 1840s buildings are restored and hands on
participatory workshops will allow students and adults to perform
the daily tasks of an 1840s Illinois prairie farm. Volunteers are
needed to help set up for the event, to give tours of the 1846 brick
inn, demonstrate chores like corn husking and shelling, cider pressing,
wheat flailing, log hewing, soap making, laundry, or help with
parking and logistics at this educational fundraising event. Volunteers
can be trained in advance to demonstrate or interpret.
Garfield Farm Museum is a 370 acre
historically intact former 1840s Illinois prairie farmstead and
teamster inn that is being restored as an 1840s working farm museum.
Volunteers and donors from over 2800 households representing 37 states
have helped in the preservation of the site. The museum is located
5 miles west of Geneva, IL off ILL Hwy 38 on Garfield Road.