Country Crossroads to hold annual Farm Show

Country Crossroads to hold annual Farm Show
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All donations go back directly into the grounds and upkeep of the equipment to keep the program going each year.

                        

Though COVID is still going around, the 16th annual Farm Show at the Country Crossroads Education of Yesterday in Dresden is continuing as planned.

Owned by the Moore family, the farm’s mission is to preserve old machinery and teach and show the younger generations how things were done in the past.

Located at 3685 Cass Irish Ridge Road, admission to the Oct. 17-18 event is free, but a parking donation is requested. Tickets for the train ride and digger are $1 each. Hours for the event are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

All donations go back directly into the grounds and upkeep of the equipment to keep the program going each year.

“We feature all types of working antique farm equipment and construction equipment, as well as large displays of tractors, trucks, fire trucks and equipment. There is something for everyone,” said Kendra Moore, one of the owners.

Moore said the event is outside rain or shine, and they are spacing the displays further apart for social distancing. There also will be sanitizing stations, and they will wipe down areas that are touched, as well as limit the amount of people allowed in the Grist Mill each time.

Many events will be held throughout the day including shelling corn using a belt-driven sheller, a silo filler demonstration making feed for cattle, making miniature round bales of hay using the first round hay baler ever made, square hay baling with stationary and pull-type balers, picking corn with a two-row corn picker and a pull-type picker, chopping corn with an ensilage cutter-blower, and harvesting soy beans with a AC pull-type combine.

Many of these demonstrations will happen in the early afternoon to allow for dew to dry. A cord saw will be used to make firewood for the wood burner stoves. A sawmill will be running, tractors plowing and discing, and a blacksmith and forge on the grounds.

Displays will include Hit & Miss gas engines and large engines, as well as construction equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, track hoes, shovel loaders, road graters, and running dump truck and backhoes. There will be a small backhoe that young children can run under adult supervision.

Kids’ games and activities will run throughout the day, as well as train rides and tractor wagon rides.

The Captain Bryant’s Grist Mill Museum also will have a large farm toy display on the second floor and displays of antique tools and machinery on the first floor.

Arts and crafts and toys will be available for sale, as well as food such as a hog roast, mini doughnuts from Dresden Masonic Lodge and the S&A Food Stand.

Country Crossroads farm was owned by late Kenny Moore, Jr., who grew up on a farm in Killbuck and came to Dresden when he was 19 to start a farm machinery business, which he ran until his death in 2013.

“The Cracker Jack Railroad and Captain Bryant’s Grist Mill were some of his biggest projects,” Moore said. “He made several trips to Barbaroo, Wisconsin to bring home the train engines and to take up the narrow gauge railroad and ties, then laying it on the grounds.”

Moore said the mill was originally located in Dresden, and with a limited crew, they took it down and reassembled it at the farm. “He wanted to share his dream with everyone and to see the faces of young children light up.”

Moore said he lived his life with two words, “think” and “LERM” (life, education, responsibilities and memory).

For more information about the event, visit their Facebook site at www.Facebook.com/EducationofYesterday or call 740-754-6248.


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