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, 9:30–11 a.m. and 1–4 p.m.

1900 Farm: Watch demonstrations of a gasoline-powered thresher, 9:30–11 a.m. and 1–4 p.m.

Be sure to allow time for the tractor cart ride to and from the farm sites

Walnut Hill: Tractor parade, 12:30 p.m.

Screening of the Iowa PBS documentary “Tractor Wars 2”

Learning Center, 11 a.m.

Panel discussion celebrating the International Year of the Woman Farmer

Learning Center, noon