Harvest Fair 2009
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2010 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


Friday • October 1


Buildings & grounds open at 10:00 AM and close at 8:00 PM unless otherwise noted.
Click here for map of fairgrounds.

Friday Is Back! Join us for educational Ag-Tivities for youth, and premier flights of varietal
wine tasting for the over-21 crowd. We’ll also have retail sales, exhibits, pumpkin carving,
and continuous music.



Wine & Food Tasting & Wine Related Activities


Wine Flights – Tasting By Varietal, Grace Pavilion
Noon-2:30 PM & 4:30- 7:00 PM

$35 per flight, or both Flights for $60. Age 21 and over, only. Identification required for entry.
FLIGHT ONE with Sommeliers, Noon to 2:30 PM
Enjoy an educational tasting. Five roving sommeliers will discuss the wines, and offer tasting notes.
FLIGHT TWO with Friends, 4:30 to 7 PM
Create your own tasting notes with friends. Be your own wine judges. Sip. Socialize. Enjoy.


Chef’s Demos – Professional chefs share their secrets, Showcase
3:00 & 4:00 PM

3:00 PM Lisa Lavagetto, Ramekins Culinary School
4:00 PM Larry Vito, BBQ Smokehouse & Catering


Wine Tasting Seminars, Garden Building
3:30 & 4:30 PM

Everything you wanted to know about wine tasting, presented by Bruce Snyder.


Retail Store - Wine Sales, E.C. Kraft Building
10AM - 7:00 PM

Your "One Stop" Shopping experience. Purchase the award winning wines at great prices.
10% off 6-bottle purchase, 15% off case purchases.


Art Show Reception with Wine & Hors d’oeuvres, Finley Hall
8:00 - 10:00 PM

Your $20 admission offers unlimited wine and hors d’oeuvres while you have first look at the local art entered in the fair. All art is for sale and may be purchased this evening. The original art for this year’s Harvest Fair poster will be available for silent bid.


Award-Winning Wine Lists & Gift Baskets, Showcase Café
10:00 AM – 8:00 PM


Apple Display, Garden Building
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM


Varietal Apple Tasting, Garden Building
11:00 AM to 4:00 PM


Beekeepers Demonstrations & Honey Tasting, Garden Courtyard
12:30 & 2:30 PM


Music


Satellite Jazz Group, Park Stage
2:30, 3:45 and 5:00 p.m.


Tom Leps & The Harvest Stompers Dixieland Band, Strolling
5:00 - 7:00 PM


Farm & Harvest Ag-Tivities for Kids, Families & Classrooms

Enjoy Four Stations of Harvest Fun while you experience Sonoma County agriculture.
Classrooms will have docent-lead tours of the stations. Most of the activities are also open to the public. Ag-Tivities sponsored by American Ag Credit


Station 1: Barnyard Fun, Stomping Grounds
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Explore a hay maze, play farm-style games in the Barnyard Scramble, view early day gas engines, and a fire prevention display.


Station 2: Dairy Display, Dairy Barns
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Learn about Sonoma County’s dairy industry: visit the mobile dairy classroom, milk a cow, sip milk samples, see dairy cattle.


Station 3: Uncle Sam's Farm, north end of Pygmy Goat Barn
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Meet farm animals. Watch spinning and sheep shearing demonstrations.


Station 4: Ag Partners, Garden Courtyard
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Meet beekeepers and see their bees, learn about gardening from the Men’s Garden Club, meet Master Gardeners and get questions answered, learn about Farm Trails and where to get Sonoma’s freshest produce.




More Farm & Harvest Fun for All


Qualifying Grape Stomp—All Ages, Grape Stomp Stage
5:30 PM

$30 entry fee per Team. Sign up ahead, or on site if space is available.


Exhibits of Fair Entries, Garret Hall
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Check out the entries submitted by your friends and neighbors: arts & crafts, agricultural products, scarecrows, baked foods, preserved foods, table settings, gingerbread houses, and much more.


Great American Petting Zoo, adjacent to BackDoor Circus
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM


Free Wagon Rides, Draft Horse Barn
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM


Early Day Gas Engine Display, Stomping Grounds
10 AM – 7:00 PM


Special Kids Shows & Activities


Haunted Room, North End, Racing Grandstand
Noon - 6:00 PM

Not a whole house, just a fairly spooky room.


Terry Godfrey, Comedy Magic, Kids Area
2:00, 3:30, & 5:00 PM


Family Carnival, Stomping Grounds
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Inflatable rides & jump rooms, plus other rides & games. Purchase tickets at the Carnival Ticket Booth.


Shopping Opportunities


Crafters’ Marketplace – Hall of Flowers
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Start your Christmas shopping early; visit over 150 arts and crafts booths both in the Hall of Flowers and around the grounds.


Art Show & Sale, Finley Hall
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Enjoy the fine art works in all media by Sonoma County Artists. Purchase one to take home. All are for sale.


Harvest Fair Retail Store - Wine Sales, E.C. Kraft Building
10:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Your “One Stop” Shopping experience. Purchase the award winning wines at great prices. 10% off 6-bottle purchase, 15% off case purchases.


Livestock Area Shows


10:00 – 5:00 PM Poultry & Waterfowl on Exhibit - Poultry Building
10:00 AM Pygmy Goat Show - Wilford Ring
1:00 PM Llama Show (Halter Classes) - Lyttle Cow Palace