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
$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.
3:00 PM Lisa Lavagetto, Ramekins Culinary School
4:00 PM Larry Vito, BBQ Smokehouse & Catering
Everything you wanted to know about wine tasting, presented by Bruce Snyder.
Your "One Stop" Shopping experience. Purchase the award winning wines at great prices.
10% off 6-bottle purchase, 15% off case purchases.
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.
Music
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
Explore a hay maze, play farm-style games in the Barnyard Scramble, view early day gas engines, and a fire prevention display.
Learn about Sonoma County’s dairy industry: visit the mobile dairy classroom, milk a cow, sip milk samples, see dairy cattle.
Meet farm animals. Watch spinning and sheep shearing demonstrations.
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
$30 entry fee per Team. Sign up ahead, or on site if space is available.
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.
Special Kids Shows & Activities
Not a whole house, just a fairly spooky room.
Inflatable rides & jump rooms, plus other rides & games. Purchase tickets at the Carnival Ticket Booth.
Shopping Opportunities
Start your Christmas shopping early; visit over 150 arts and crafts booths both in the Hall of Flowers and around the grounds.
Enjoy the fine art works in all media by Sonoma County Artists. Purchase one to take home. All are for sale.
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 |