Bovina Farm Day

Bovina Farm Day
Bovina Farm Day returns Sunday, September 4th

ENTER OUR CONTESTS
Enter your best traditional apple pie, or your best non-traditional apple dessert.
Pies must be received at Bovina Farm Day by 1pm.
Winners will be announced at 2pm.

Enter our Scarecrow Contest
Build a scarecrow during Bovina Farm Day. We will provide the stake, cross-arms and hay.
Use our clothing or accessories or bring your own. $10 to enter.
Scarecrows must be completed by 2pm.
Winners will be announced at 3pm.
Bovina Farm Day Schedule

Scheduled Events

Maple Candy Making Demonstration by Karen LaFever, Maplewood Farm & Orchard - 1PM
Celebrating the Divine Swine: A Butchering 101 Demo by Andersen Morse, Butcher - 1:30PM

Best Apple Pie Contest Entries by 1PM
Best Apple Pie Contest Judging - 2:00PM
Judges: Ed Weber, Gary Simmons, Derek Curl

Scarecrows completed by 2PM
Scarecrow Contest Judging - 3:00PM
Judge: Brooke Alderson, Scott Hill, Peter Schjeldahl, Judge Emeritus

Multi-Basket Raffle Drawing - 3:30PM
Farm Tour at Milking Time - 4PM

Displays
Jergen Farm Family Antique Truck

River Valley New Holland Farm Equipment

Tony and Kyle Gabriel's Collection of Tractors

Dan Dysenroth's Antique Engines

Ongoing Events
Pamela Cooley - Butter Making Demonstration - 11AM - 2PM

Peter Buchanan-Smith & Nick Zdon: Knowing, Buying, Using, Hanging, Restoring & Adorning Axes

Tours of the One-Room Maynard Schoolhouse - 10:30AM - 12:30PM & 2:00PM - 5PM

Food & Crafts to Buy

Animals to Visit

Mark Wilbur's Antique 2-Stroke Engine and Antique Wooden Shingle Maker Machine
For the Kids

11:00 AM
Lawn games: egg toss, sack races, wheelbarrow races, three-legged race, farm charades, poison frog

12PM
Ed McGee of the Andes School and Mark Kline of Delaware Academy: How to build a vermicompost bin

12:30 PM
Tug-of-war
- Children
- Adults
- Adults versus children

1:30 PM
CRAFTS
(1) Corn husk doll making
(2) Popsicle stick tractors

2:00 PM
Lawn games: egg toss, sack races, wheelbarrow races, farm charades, tug of war

3:00 PM
CRAFTS
(1) Corn husk doll making
(2) Popsicle stick tractors

Corn Maze

Farm Themed Treasure Hunt

Food Concessions:

Kru Coffee Collective

Ty's Taco-Ria

Cross Roads

A-maize-ing: Bovina's Best Sweet Corn

Wandering Wagon
Our Farmers & Vendors

Bovina Historian
Bovina Historical Society
Bramley Mountain Beef
Burnett Farms
Bye Brook Farm
Catharina Kessler
Catskill Botanicals
Catskills Comfrey
Crystal Brook Farm
Deanne Stewart
Echo Hill Farm
Farmer's Wife
Farming Bovina
Fleurs du Bien
Hoods Baked Goods
Kortright Kritters 4H Club
Livestock Foundation
Maplewood Farm & Orchard
My Magical Farm
Nancy Kulikowski Designs
Old Soul Botanicals
Rock Royal Farm
Second Chance Farm
Shepherds Meadow Farm
Tenfold Family Farm
The Wood Butcher
Webcrest Farm
Bovina Farm Day Volunteers
We're looking for volunteers to join the committee planning Bovina Farm Day, as well as to set up the event and work at the festival (September 4). Volunteering includes helping to hang signs, throw hay bales, sell tickets, coordinate kids' games, cut corn stalks, park cars, staff a booth, etc.,
If interested, please use the form below, email farmingbovina@gmail.com or call Peter Pockriss at
914-450-4754. It's a great way to meet your neighbors!

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Bovina Farm Day
This fantastic event happens every Labor Day weekend. Here is a little taste of previous years.