
Grain Harvest + ‘Tractor Wars 2’
Our original community event! Saturday, July 25 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. All activities included with General Admission Every year since 1970, we’ve invited guests to help us bring in the harvest using methods from centuries past. A key part of the harvest was threshing, or separating seeds from stalks. 1850 Pioneer Farm: Try threshing by hand with an old-fashioned flail 1900 Farm: Watch demonstrations of a gasoline-powered thresher Walnut Hill: Tractor display and parade display End the day with a screening of the Iowa PBS documentary “Tractor Wars 2” and a panel discussion of women in agriculture
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