Saturday & Sunday
September 14-15, 2024
11am-4pm daily
Harvest Celebration! 2024
Smeck Park
7395 Basil Rd
Baltimore, OH 43105
Watch as members of Fairfield County Antique Tractor Club bring in the crops using early farm machinery. Share in some of the work such as bagging just-dug potatoes, pick and shuck maize or popcorn, then take home some of the fresh goodies! Pick your own pumpkin and gourd – one each, please.
There will be activities and games for all ages, demonstrations, displays, vendors, music, and food trucks. Come, have fun with us!
Click image to get a printable copy of Harvest Celebration! 2024 Flyer with Schedule of Activities and Event Map
HAYRIDE & PARKING SHUTTLE
Parking is available at Smeck Park. Parking is also at Liberty Union High School. Those who park at the school will enjoy a free hayride to and from the event. The shuttle/hayride will leave the school parking lot at 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30 (times are approximate).
ACTIVITIES & GAMES
There are many family-friendly activities for all ages! Here are a few highlights.
- Harvesting Potatoes
- Pick Your Own Pumpkin, Gourd, Colored Maize, Dried Sunflower Heads
one pumpkin, gourd, and sunflower per person - Candlemaking
- Pumpkin Painting
- Cornhole (play cornhole and other games with Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office Deputies!)
- Coin Scramble (ages 3-10)
- Gravity Wagon Basketball
DEMONSTRATIONS
- Rope Making
- Spinning Wheel
EXHIBITS, COMMUNITY PARTNERS & MORE
- Antique Tractors
- Antique Farm Implements
Tractors, Wagons, Hand Tools, Cider Press, more. - Visit Fairfield County (Sunday only)
What is there to do in Fairfield County? - Fairfield County GIS Map Room
Maps comparing Basil-Baltimore of 1820 to Basil-Baltimore of 2020, The Ohio Canal in Lockville, and more! - Baltimore Community Museum
- Fairfield Soil & Water Conservation District
Skins and skulls of Ohio Mammals, Field Tile Displays - Fairfield County Beekeepers Association
- OSU Extension, Fairfield County
How to Spot a Spotted Lanternfly
FOOD
- Carroll Lions Food Truck
Their hamburgers, fresh-cut fries, and fried baloney (bologna) sandwiches are a must – mmm! - Girl Scouts of Ohio Heartland, Troop 7501
baked goods including cookies - Boy Scouts Troop 106
flavored popcorn
PETS
Well-mannered pets are welcome. They must always be under control and on a leash no longer than 6’. For the health and safety of all, you must pick up and properly dispose of pets’ waste.
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