| Amish festival time in Adams County: Olde Thyme Herb Fair & Harvest Celebration |
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| Thursday, 17 September 2009 | |
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Although the name may have a familiar ring, this totally new festival promises to bring a tradition of herbs, crafts, and natural products to a location familiar to all, the Wheat Ridge Amish Community. “An event like this portrays a positive and true image of what Adams County really is,” said event organizer and local antique dealer, Herb Erwin, who along with his wife Kim decided this spring to bring a festival to their farm on Tater Ridge Road near the Wheat Ridge community. And the festival promises to deliver with nearly 150 vendors of quality natural earth creations, artisans, craftspeople, and herbal products, in an autumn atmosphere set among the rolling pastoral hills in Adams County’s Amish country. In keeping with the natural and local flavor of previous events, “We’re here to showcase natural products that are created by local artisans and craftspeople,” Herb pointed out. The nearby Amish community is heavily involved in the festival with one Amish family cooking up a batch of original Pennsylvania Dutch pretzels from scratch, while another family will be making fresh apple cider on the spot from apples grown locally. The Amish community schools, which are self supporting, will be setting up a cafeteria under a tent serving lunch and cooking their famous pies on site with proceeds benefiting the local Amish schools. Homemade ice cream, bake goods, and lemonade are also special Amish treats festival goers can tempt their taste buds with. Of course a host of Amish furnishings, herbal, plant, and garden boxes, plus special quilt purses are just a sampling of some of the Amish goods on display. Other venders include an array of herbal specialist, growers, and creators featuring herbal teas, butter, soaps, aloe lotions, lavenders, and other herbal and earth products. The Ohio Brush Creek Herb Guild will be serving up portions of their popular and tasty herbal soup at the fair. Metal smiths will have a place at the fair with yard art, fountains, and other unusual if not interesting metal products. A number of wood crafters creating everything from chain saw art to bird houses to walking sticks and furniture will be present. Quilters, sewer’s, knitters, weavers, pottery, honey and natural food product vendors will be displaying along with the usual fresh produce that only comes straight from the farm. Special classes and demonstrations featuring shrubbery trimming, medicinal teas, natural art, and cooking with herbal food and spices will also be featured at this event. Antiques, garden supplies, old farm equipment, historical reenactments, plenty of food, live entertainment and folk music promises to round out this two day festival down on the farm in Adams County. |
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