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Special Events at Homestead Farm
..Greenhouse Items for Sale in the Early Spring May-April
We start a large percentage of our plants in the greenhouse at Homestead Farm and sell flowers and herbs for your home and garden.

The Homestead Farm greenhouse (pictured at right), with hanging baskets and trays of seedlings!

 The Greenhouse!
..Farm Tour & Harvest Sale Usually a Saturday in July
Montgomery County Farm Tour & Harvest Sale
The annual Montgomery County Farm Tour is also this weekend, and Homestead Farm is a traditional participant. For further information on that, please click on the link.
..Homestead Farm Corn Roast Saturday, July17
New This Year:
Roasted sweet cornHomestead Farm Corn Roast!

Saturday, July 17 • 10:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Come eat some delicious sweet corn roasted by our staff. We will be roasting our own supersweet varieties.

After you finish munching the sweet corn, you can visit with the barnyard animals or ...

Pick your own thornless blackberries or ...

Cut your own bouquet of flowers (bring your own bucket) or ...

Pick your own sweet, juicy peaches!
..Corn Maze (otherwise known as a Maize Maze!) July-August
Come make your way through a maze in the cornfield! The corn is "as high as an elephant's eye," with twists and turns in pathways that can challenge the boldest explorer. How fast can you go through the 6-acre maze? Come find out!
..Johnny Appleseed Day Thursday, September 16, 2004
Something New This Year!!
Comes Celebrate with Us: Thursday, September 16
  • Hayrides
  • Apple Cider
  • Apples (pick-your-own OR already picked)
  • Meet our Johnny Appleseed and hear his wonderful story
..Weekend Farm Tours September-October
Ben giving a apple tour
Farmer Ben Allnutt tells a rapt class how to make cider, as he leans on a small apple press.
Church groups, Boy Scouts, etc. for groups of 50 or more:
  • Please call 301-926-6999 to arrange a time for your tour
  • Tour includes hayride, a child-size pumpkin, access to picnic area
  • With advance notice and at additional charge, we can provide caramel apples, cider, and apples with a tub of water for bobbing!
On weekends during the fall, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors to Homestead Farm can take a hayride.
..Fresh Bakery Goods! September-October
Friends and neighbors of Homestead Farm love to cook. Come sample their famous homemade baked goods. Caramel-Apple Pie was THE favorite last year! Yum! Available by the slice or as a whole pie. Get here early, while the supply lasts! Caramel-Apple Pie is available only during fall apple season.
..Send Homestead Farm apples!
  New this year, we offer to mail boxes of apples to your friends and family! September-October
Apple with Card Ask at the register for order forms to specify the number and type of apples desired as well as the names and addresses of the lucky people to receive your gift! Or, open a .pdf file of the form, and print one out at home.

.Apple Pie Perfect (Program)
  November 13, 2004 - Poolesville Library • 11:00 a.m.

Friends of the Library has scheduled a program called "Apple Pie Perfect" at Poolesville Library as part of their Celebrate! US series. Come hear Ken Haedrich, author of "Apple Pie Perfect," speak about how to create THE perfect apple pie. Yum! Pick up a copy of his book to prepare your Homestead Farm apple harvest! We will be there, with apples to sample. Homestead Farm is proud to be a Friends of the Library sponsor.
..Christmas Trees December 1-24
Starting December 1, we are open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with "cut your own" (or already cut) Christmas trees! Celebrate the season with fragrant and longer-lasting fresh wreaths, garlands, too!
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Ben and Maureen Allnutt
15600 Sugarland Road, Poolesville, Maryland 20837 • Recorded Message 301-977-3761