Sat 6/12-Sun 6/13 @ 10AM-5PM
This year’s edition of Hale Farm & Village’s Sow & Grow Festival & Plant Sale — and yes, it’s live, not on Zoom — has a theme, one that’s critical to all sowing and growing: pollinators.
While the festival will still feature their usual demonstrations of the crafts and skills people practiced in 19th-century Ohio, such as draft horse plowing, chicken keeping, gardening, blacksmithing, pottery making, spinning and weaving, it will increase the focus on those essential pollinators. You can learn all about beekeeping, as well as how to use beeswax and honey, and planting milkweed to support Monarch Butterflies and the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer district will talk about how to plant a pollinator-friends rain garden so you can help the environment in a several different ways.
There’ll also be demonstrations of natural dyeing, mead production, both traditional and contemporary uses for herbs and honey, and hands-on projects for kids.
This year’s Citizens of Hale Plant Sale will also focus on pollinators, with plenty of the native and heirloom plants they need to thrive. Admission to all activities is $12 for adults, $6 for ages 3-12. Café 1810 in the Visitor’s Center will be open for lunch, and the Marketplace at Hale Farm & Village will have handcrafted items made at Hale Farm and other Ohio-made items.