CULLMAN, Ala. – This Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, the Peinhardt family will open Peinhardt Living History Farm will to the public for an educational day of traditional rural life.
According to the Peinhardt Living History Farm Foundation, “The entire family can enjoy hands-on experiences from hayrides, farm animals, quilting, crafts, old-time music, antique tractors, crop picking, painting pumpkins and much more! Step back into the 1930s and 1940s for a fun day on the farm.”
The farm includes multiple preserved or reconstructed buildings including log cabins, the Red Hill Schoolhouse, working blacksmith shop, sorghum mill, saw mill, grist mill and others, museum of early 1900s rural life, antique agricultural equipment and working farm fields with pumpkins, potatoes, cotton and okra.
Saturday’s event will feature live bluegrass and old-time music, food vendors, craft and traditional skill demonstrations and hands-on activities (paint a pumpkin, make a birdhouse, try your hand with farm tools and tasks and much more), wagon rides, live animals – exhibited and working and a chance to hit the fields for harvest time.
Activities will be happening across the farm grounds, and the North Alabama Agriplex next door will also host exhibits and events.
On its website, Peinhardt Living History Farm’s mission statement reads:
America’s children are drifting further and further away from their agricultural roots and heritage. Many adults grew up in the days when visits to Grandma and Grandpa’s farm were common occurrences. But few of these farms remain and children today do not have that same opportunity. To most children, milk does not come from cows and eggs do not come from chickens; they come from the grocery store.
The goal of this program is to help fill this void in children’s experience that is creating an agricultural illiteracy. The program theme is Life and Living on a Working Family Farm. The focus is that the barnyard and animals, the house and garden, the field, the woods and the horses all have an important purpose in helping the farmer make a living for him and his family.
At a glance
Peinhardt Farm Day
Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
1711 Talley Ho St, Cullman, AL (From Interstate 65 Exit 308, take Hwy. 278 East.)
Free parking on Talley Ho Street
Adults $7, children 5-13 $5, 4 and younger free; cash only
No dogs allowed.
Walking tour with limited mobility
For more information, visit www.peinhardtfarm.com.
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