The Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival

The Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival
Friday through Sunday, September 27 - 29, 2013

 

The Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival is a three-day festival held annually the last weekend of September. As many as 1,500 school school children visit the farm on Friday during School Children’s Day to learn what daily life and work was like in the 19th century. Some of the crafts and skills demonstrated are pottery, basket making, woodworking, blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, soap and candle making and fringe tying.

Farm animals fill the stable; pony and wagon rides are available for the young and young at heart. Folk and country musicians and dancers entertain during the three-day event. In the meadow, Civil War reenactment troops are encamped and steam engines are demonstrated. The festival has become one of the finest intergenerational events in North Carolina.

If you are interested in becoming a crafter/demonstrator at the festival, please visit the crafter/demonstrator page.

Christmas Open House and Decking the Farm

Christmas Open House and Decking the Farm
Saturday, December 8, 2012
11:00 am to 4:00 pm

 

Come deck the Malcolm Blue Farm with holly, pine boughs and wreaths. It’s an interactive open house where the visitors participate in making the decorations and adorning the native cedar, weaving grapevine wreaths, tying bows of holly and pine and turning pinecones into birdfeeders. Relax inside stringing popcorn by the fire while listening to local musicians.

Come for the tours and stay for the day. Their will be Brunswick stew, cornbread, an old fashioned candy buffet and hot cider. Monetary donations to the farm are encouraged.

MBHS founder Martha Swaringen says, “The Blue Farm Open House has been a tradition for thirty-six years. This year we are giving our guests the chance to be active participants in decorating the farm. Guided by the Blue’s Family Cookery we have recreated tastes from the past and welcome everybody to sample old Southern recipes of Brunswick stew and homemade sweets.”

Join us at our Annual Board Meeting from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.

 

 

Malcolm Blue Farm open Friday and Saturday 1-4 pm. Please call for appointments for other times and/or dates.
1177 Bethesda Road, P.O. Box 603, Aberdeen, NC 28315 - Telephone/fax 910-944-7558 - malcolmblue@windstream.net

43RD ANNUAL HISTORICAL CRAFTS & FARM SKILLS FESTIVAL

43RD ANNUAL HISTORICAL CRAFTS and FARM SKILLS FESTIVAL

The Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival is a three-day festival held annually the last weekend of September. As many as 1,500 school school children visit the farm on Friday during School Children’s Day to learn what daily life and work was like in the 19th century. Some of the crafts and skills demonstrated are pottery, basket making, woodworking, blacksmithing, spinning, weaving, soap and candle making and fringe tying.

Farm animals fill the stable; pony and wagon rides are available for the young and young at heart. Folk and country musicians and dancers entertain during the three-day event. In the meadow, Civil War reenactment troops are encamped and steam engines are demonstrated. The festival has become one of the finest intergenerational events in North Carolina.

Hours: Fri. School Children's Day 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Sat. 10 AM-6 PM, Sun. noon-5 PM.

There is an admission fee.

Malcolm Blue Farm 1177 Bethesda Road , Aberdeen NC 28315