Family spotlights: Threshing Weekend and Eagle Creek Fair

By MELISSA WALKER

August 28, 2011 — 12:10am

Threshing Weekend

Help bring in the grain as the early settlers did. Assist Kelley farmhands as they transport grain bundles from the field with oxen. Earn a little sweat equity by hauling bundles and bagging grain at the 1856 horse-powered threshing machine and stacking the straw.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat 9/3; noon-5 p.m. Sun 9/4. $5-$8.
Oliver Kelley Farm, 15788 Kelley Farm Road, Elk River
651-259-3000
www.mnhs.org

Eagle Creek Fair

Celebrate the summer with the farmers and townsfolk of Eagle Creek. Play games, view farm and craft exhibits and visit soldiers from the Fifth Minnesota Infantry. Take a ride on a trolley pulled by Percheron draft horses.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat 9/3; noon-5 p.m. Sun 9/4
$3-$5
The Landing, 2187 E. Hwy. 101, Shakopee
763-559-6700
www.threeriversparkdistrict.org

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