Join us for this community tradition! The Harvest Festival offers visitors an experience combining history, Ozark culture, and a natural setting with modern amenities and entertainment. Visitors to the 2024 Festival can enjoy a country breakfast, food truck provisions, live music, an Arts and Eats market, sorghum pressing demonstrations, craft demonstrations, tours of historic buildings and a quilt show. Join us this year for a brand new, LIVE pie auction!
Enjoy the Ozark Country Breakfast 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
$8 – Adults – (Adult festival & breakfast ticket bundle only $12!)
$5 – Kids (12 & under)
Food Trucks (prices vary by truck) 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
3 Chicks Cones- Concessions and Catering
Blue’s Concessions
Deep South BBQ
Nolen’s Kettle Korn and Cinnamon Roasted Nuts
The Notable Noodle
Yummy Yang’s
Put on your dancing shoes or bring a chair to enjoy a full lineup of live music, including:
8:00 AM Tara and the Gift Horses
9:45 AM Boonsboro Bandits*
10:45 AM Mountain Gypsies
12:30 PM Squirrel Jam
2:00 PM LIVE Pie Auction
2:30 PM Raising Cane*
*Historic Cane Hill Roots Music Groups
Bring your sweet tooth and your pocketbook to ensure you can take home a pie from a community member or local business. This LIVE pie auction is sure to entertain as well as satisfy.
Kids Zone
Activities from Crystal Bridges, Washington County 4-H, the University of Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, free face painting, and more!
Arts and Eats Market
Shop for goods and gifts from local artisans and crafters
Historic Building Visits
Take the unique opportunity to peek inside the 1886 Cane Hill College and 1891 Cane Hill Presbyterian Church, winner of the 2020 Arkansas Preservation Award for Excellence in Preservation through Restoration.
Sorghum Pressing Demonstration
See the process of pressing sorghum cane with an antique press using local draft horses to transform the cane juice into sorghum molasses!
Craft Demonstrations
Including lace tatting, textile spinning & weaving, blacksmithing, beekeeping, antique tractors, and more
Community Creative Center’s Wheel Mobile
Have a “wheel of a time” as you try your hand throwing pottery.
Free 30-minute mini-workshops are available to ages 10 and up.
Quilt Show & Drawing
Featuring antique and contemporary quilts from the region
Ozark Folk Paintings of Essie Ward
Often called the “Grandma Moses of the Ozarks,” Essie Treat Ward (1902-1981)
painted scenes of the often-humorous everyday life of fictional Ozark characters Miranda and Hezzakiah. A selection of paintings and a painting activity are offered in the Gallery courtesy of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History.
Buddy Up with the Bur Oak
Did you know that the state Co-Champion Bur Oak tree grows on HCH’s campus? In addition to its impressive size, this tree is a “witness tree” to the Trail of Tears.
Ask a Plant and Habitat Expert
Washington County Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists are on site with other plant and habitat experts near our wildflower gardens to answer questions about how to incorporate native plants and wild areas into your garden.
Don’t forget – Historic Cane Hill members receive 2 free Festival Admission tickets (not including breakfast). Need to become a member? Join today and get your discount!
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The Cane Hill Harvest Festival wouldn’t happen without our amazing volunteers! From working the info table to making sorghum molasses, there are opportunities for everyone.
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The Cane Hill Harvest Festival is a time-honored tradition and fundraiser supporting the work and educational programs of Historic Cane Hill. Historic Cane Hill is dedicated to the preservation of the many historically significant structures of Cane Hill and western Washington County, as well as the trails, creeks, and bounty of nature found on our properties.
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