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SUMMARY:Exchange Place Living History Farm: Spring Garden Fair
DESCRIPTION:Kingsport\, TN – After a cold winter\, our reward is spring\, and in its time-honored area tradition\,\nExchange Place Living History Farm will once again celebrate the planting season with its annual Spring\nGarden Fair. The oldest garden fair in our region will be celebrating its 38th year on Saturday\, April\n27\, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.\, and Sunday\, April 28\, from noon until 5 p.m.\, at the 1850s\nfarmstead\, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport. Admission is $5 for adults and is free\nfor children under the age of 12.  Proceeds from the event helps keep our animals fed\, and also goes\ntowards the restoration and upkeep of the site\, which is proudly listed on the National Register of\nHistoric Places. \nAlways eagerly anticipated by area gardeners (beginners as well as experts)\, the Fair will feature\nthousands of plants for sale\, ranging from old favorites to rare and hard-to-find varieties. Growers will\noffer perennials\, annuals\, trees and shrubs\, with an emphasis on herbs\, natives and heirloom plants\,\nincluding a wide assortment of heirloom tomatoes. And what makes this festival so popular is that\ngardening experts are available throughout the weekend to answer questions and share their knowledge\nabout plant selection and care. Another inimitable feature is that folk and yard artisans are also found all\naround the campus\, displaying unique plant and garden-related arts and crafts. \nTrue to its mission\, Exchange Place will offer slices of 19 th century life in almost every corner. Over on\nthe Roseland side\, the Burow Museum will be eagerly welcoming visitors\, while just a few feet away\, in\nan area between the Museum and the barn\, our sheep will be getting their hair cut! T.J. Dewitt will be\nperforming this shearing the sheep spring ritual both days: on Saturday\, you can see it at 10:30 am\,\n12 noon\, 1:30 and 3:30 pm\, while on Sunday it will take place at 12 noon\, 1:30 and 3:30 pm. The\nOvermountain Weavers Guild will then take that wool and continue their long “Sheep to Shawl”\ntradition of carding (cleaning\, separating and straightening) the wool\, spinning it into yarn and weaving\nthat yarn into scarves and\, perhaps\, other beautiful and wearable items. \nAcross the road on the historic farm side of Exchange Place\, the hearth kitchen will be filled with\nwonderful aromas supplied by the Eden’s Ridge Hearth Cookery Society. On Saturday\, they will be\nchurning butter\, to be used on Sunday when they make pound cake. They will also be making hoecakes\,\njumble cookies\, and fried eggs with asparagus in the Cook’s Cabin. Other Junior Apprentices will host\nthe annual Tennessee Dancing Gourd spinoff\, as well as perform chores in the barn\, woodshed and\ngarden — a glimpse into how life was lived on an antebellum Northeast Tennessee farm. \nA special feature this year will be the presence of noted broom maker John Alexander. A graduate of\nBerea College\, he has been making brooms\, and teaching this craft\, for nearly half a century\, and he will\nbe giving demonstrations at his booth all weekend (as well as having traditional Appalachian brooms\,\nbroomcorn seed\, and broomcorn woven walking sticks available for sale).  He is also offering workshops\nin Cobweb broom-making. The Saturday class is already filled\, but Mr. Alexander is willing to add one on\nSunday\, from 3 pm until 5 pm. The cost will be $30\, with all materials supplied. If interested\, people\nshould write to epfestivals.gf@gmail.com to see if spots are still available\, and send their checks\n(payable to Exchange Place) to us at 4812 Orebank Road\, to reserve their spot. \nAnother unique event will be the sowing of buckwheat on the cane patch. Weather permitting\, longtime\nvolunteer Mark Selby plans to offer up times when festival attendees can help sow buckwheat.  This\nwill serve as a cover crop that not only helps build healthy soil\, but will also serve as a food source for\nbees and other beneficial insects.  He also plans to give away small packets of buckwheat seeds so that\nfolks can sow them at their homes\, which will help the endangered bees. \nAs you can see\, we have come to expect the Spring Garden Fair to be filled with fascinating events\, and\nthere are more to report. A wide variety of hands-on children’s activities will be found all around the\ngrounds\, including Cynthia Holt offering lessons in basketmaking. The blacksmith shop will be up and\nrunning\, demonstrating the necessity of this skill in the years before the Industrial Revolution. The Boy\nScouts will guide visitors in making rope. The joyous Maypole decoration and dance will take place at 2\npm on Sunday. Brought to this country by our European ancestors\, it is a traditional and colorful\ncelebration of spring\, and will feature the Junior Apprentices Old-Time Band. Everyone always enjoys\nseeing our resident animals\, including Delilah (our cow)\, Jenny (our donkey)\, plus the sheep\, pigs and\ncats who will be scattered about. As always\, music will fill the air during the Spring Garden Fair\, as an\noverabundance of local talent is scheduled to perform throughout the weekend. (A complete schedule is\nlisted below\, though it is always subject to last-minute changes.) And don't worry\, if you get hungry or\nthirsty\, baked goods\, lunch\, drinks and snacks (including the ever-popular kettle corn!) will be available. \nThe Spring Garden Fair strives to be as environmentally friendly as possible with recycling\, composting\,\nand re-using.  Visitors are encouraged to bring their own plant carriers and to bring used nursery pots\nfor recycling/reusing. \nExchange Place is a non-profit\, volunteer-run living history farm\, educational facility and regional\nattraction that seeks to preserve\, protect\, interpret\, and manage the history\, heritage\, and artifacts\npertaining to mid-19 th century farm life in Northeast Tennessee. For more information\, please call\n423-288-6071\, or visit our website: www.exchangeplacetn.org.
URL:https://northeasttennessee.org/event/exchange-place-living-history-farm-spring-garden-fair/2024-04-27/
LOCATION:Exchange Place: Living History Farm\, 4812 Orebank Rd.\, Kingsport\, TN\, 37664\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts/Crafts,Festivals,General,Outdoors,Shopping
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