Event Details
- Date: –
- Venue: Riverdale Farm
- Categories: Fairs & Festivals
- Cost: Free
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This community gathering provides a taste of the farming lifestyle. Highlights this year include:
- corn roast – Saturday and Sunday noon–4
- wheelbarrow race – Saturday, 3:30 pm
- corn-shucking contests and hog-calling and chicken-calling contests (Saturday and Sunday noon–1 pm)
- meet the farmer demonstrations with goats (10 am), horses (noon), cows (2 pm), chickens (11 am), pigs (1 pm), and sheep (3 pm)
- face painting and games
Don’t miss the pancake breakfast Sunday 9–11:30 am, which includes two pancakes, two sausages, and coffee/tea/juice. While you’re there, tour the farm’s scenic 7.5 acres along pathways through wooded areas, around ponds, and into butterfly-herb-flower-vegetable gardens.
Admission is free, corn is $1.50/cob, pancake breakfast is $5/person. For more info, call 416-392-6794 or email farm@toronto.ca.