Butler County Farm Tour
Free drive-it-yourself tour of local farms. Hands on and family friendly. Meet the hardworking faces who grow our food and harvest fiber. Click each farm name for more details.
Asgard Acres Alpaca Farm
180 Nursery Rd., Renfrew, PA 16053
Learn: care of alpacas and what products can be made from alpaca fiber
Do: watch spinning/weaving demos, make "alpaca soap," see the obstacle course, and work with 4-H alpacas
Shop: products made from alpaca fleece - sweaters, hats, socks, gloves and more
Eat: hot dogs and food from the Butler County Alpaca 4-H Club
Harvest Valley Farms
130 Ida Lane, Valencia, PA 16059
Learn: the parts of and life cycle of bees, and the history of the farm
Do: watch yarn spinning demo, get your face painted, take a hayride, go through the straw tunnel and cornstalk maze, meet farm animals, enjoy live music, and check out huge displays
Shop: apples, pumpkins, cider, fall squash, pies, cookies, pumpkin rolls, honey, jams and jellies, straw, and corn stalks
Eat: hot dogs, hot and cold cider, coffee, hot chocolate, hot pretzels, cookies, potato chips, pepperoni rolls, and apple dumplings
Santa's Heritage Farm
211 Hespenheide Rd., Mars, PA 16046
Learn: felting and spinning of alpaca fiber, growing fodder for animals and small-scale aquaponics
Do: felting, phone photo treaure hunt, pork raffle
Shop: rainbow eggs, hams, pork chops, bacon, sausage, alpaca socks, gloves, scarfs, felting kits, bags of topsoil and raffle tickets for 40 pounds of pork (3/$5 or 7/$10)
Eat: Twelve Oaks Mansion will serve a farm to table lunch/dinner of heritage pork on the farm, under a tent. $8 to $12 per customer. Gristmill Brewhouse will serve beer samples to pair with the pork.
Date & Time
October 1, 2016
10:00AM - 4:00PM
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Butler County Farm Tour
Free drive-it-yourself tour of local farms. Hands on and family friendly. Meet the hardworking faces who grow our food and harvest fiber. Click each farm... More info at www.northhillsmonthly.com/events/95612/butler-county-farm-tour
Butler County Tourism and Convention Bureau 310 easy Grandview Ave , Zelienople, PA 16063
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