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Henhouse Visits

Saturday, March 30 | 10:00–4:00

Children's Craft:  Natural Dye Egg Coloring (11:00–3:00)


Step inside a working henhouse where the farm's Barred Rock chickens are busy laying and help a farmer make their feed: then reach into a nest box and take out an egg to bring home! Visitors will learn egg candling and grading, and can also visit the farm's 50 new baby chicks in the brooder coop.



Maple Sugaring (January–March)

What is sap and why is it in the tree? Can you tap any tree to make syrup?  Enter the sugarbush areas to tap trees, collect sap, and learn about the different modern and historic sugaring methods used in the woods. At the sugar shack, see a working evaporator and learn how the final steps in the process have changed in the last century.

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Sheep Shearing (March–April)

Watch up close as a farmer shears a sheep by hand. Meet ewes and lambs in the barn and find out why special pens are sometimes needed for a mother sheep and her newborn. Learn how raw wool is cleaned, and prepare clean wool for spinning using cards to straighten the fibers. Try your hand at spinning yarn and weave a souvenir to take home.

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March


Winter in the Farmhouse

Quilt Design 


Visit from the Horse Doctor, Dentist & Shoer

Horseshoe Dreamcatcher 

16  Workhorse Rides

Log Bird Feeder


23 Sawmilling & Orchard Care

Pine Needle Sachet


30 Henhouse Visits

Natural Dye Egg Coloring




March 27

Baby Chicks Arrive Via the USPS!


March 21

Black-eyed Lamb is born... too cute!  


Hours

Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

70 Woodens Lane

Hopewell Twp., NJ 08530

Main: 609-737-3299
Fax: 609-737-6524

info@howellfarm.org

U.S. Mail
101 Hunter Road

Titusville, NJ 08560


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Howell Farm is owned by the County of Mercer and operated by the Mercer County Park Commission

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