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CSRHC Family Farm Day
October 17, 2015, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
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Join us for antique tractors, a pie auction, and hands-on agriculture!
Plowing a garden, shelling corn and griding wheat are just a few of the activities families will experience at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center’s Family Farm Day event celebrating the proud farming heritage that built Northwest Oklahoma. This hands-on event for the whole family is made possible by the generous sponsorship of P&K Equipment. Admission to Family Farm Day is free with museum admission.
“What we discovered from children visiting the Heritage Center is that many of them didn’t know where their food comes from,” said Cody Jolliff, Education Director. “When asked, many children think that corn comes from a can or bread comes from a grocery store shelf.” Today in the state of Oklahoma only 17% of families live on a working farm, nationally, only 2%. Although we live in an area where farming is the fabric of life, fewer and fewer children are exposed to how food is grown and processed.
The new Family Farm Day annual event will provide a fun way for children and their parents to experience the workings of a farm in days gone by while also relating that experience to the advanced technologies used in farming today. The newest farming machinery will be on hand from P&K Equipment for exploring as well as historic tractors from the Major County Historical Society.
