2009 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sunday • October 4

Buildings & grounds open at 10:00 AM and close at 7:00 PM unless otherwise noted.
Click here for map of fair grounds.

Wine & Food Tasting & Related Displays & Activities

Taste Medal-Winning Wines poured by staff of the winery that made them. $7 admission includes your commemorative tasting glass and 2 taste tickets. Additional tickets are 4 for $6, or $2 each. Pre-sale tickets are on sale at the Racing Grandstand from 10 to 11:30 AM. Must be 21 to Enter Grace Pavilion; identification required. (Ticket Sales End at 4:45)

$4 per paired taste.

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

Everything you wanted to know about wine tasting presented by our local wine experts.

Watch the experts prepare their favorite wine country cuisine. Pick up tips for doing the same thing at home!
12:00 Tim Vallery-Executive Chef/ Peloton Catering, Healdsburg, Savory Wine Country Dish
1:00 Shelly Kaldunski-Pastry Chef/ SRJC Instructor, Santa Rosa, Ice Cream, from the pages of her new book
2:00 Mairin Rossi- Pastry Chef / Costeaux Bakery, Healdsburg - Mouth-watering Costeaux dessert
3:00 Jeff Mall –Executive Chef/Zin Restaurant, Healdsburg, Sonoma Wine Country Dish

Learn about Sonoma County’s Dairy Industry. Free Milk Samples!

Music

Farm & Harvest Fun for All, On Stage & Off

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

Hay maze, and other free barnyard activities for kids.

This is the 5th Annual State Invitational Search for the Giant Pumpkin.
Come and watch these giants get weighed and judged for a top prize of $1,000.00

You bring a team of carvers, and we provide everything you need to carve a pumpkin.

We provide everything you need to build a scarecrow.

It’s a race to take apart the scarecrows!

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.

More Fun for All, On Stage & Off

Create a work of art Martha Stewart would be proud of! Open to adults & kids. Meet under the big tent, by the Barnyard Scramble. You can create your work of art any time between 12 & 4 PM.

Free! Not a whole house, just a fairly spooky room.

The Redwood Empire Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America proudly display their classic cars.

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.

Buy the pretty apples that have been on display for three days. Great taste, great prices.

Special Kids Shows & Activities

Your group wraps one of your own as a mummy!

We provide the Easy Bake Oven and everything you and your team needs to bake a cake. Ages 5 & up.

For children 13 and younger. $30 team entry fee. Sponsored by The ToyWorks.

You match the pasta with the name & win! Pasta provided by Traverso’s Gourmet Food & Liquors.

Comedy, Magic & Fun for All Ages.

Apple Tree Morris Dancers, Kids Area