MC&WC AB | REP 3+ | FESTIVAL & DANCE
What: THE ANNUAL EAST RIDGE FARM HARVEST CELEBRATION
Who: East Ridge Farm is hosting their annual Harvest Celebration. The event is open to anyone in the community but is mainly focused on the middle class and working class. Upper class is welcome if they wish to, but this is not a society focused event. All ages are also invited to attend all parts of the event.
Cost: It is free, however, vendors will be set up with stalls to sell treats, all proceeds will go to a Dragon Attack Relief Fund
Where: The Plunkett Farms on the east end of High Street. The farm is on the very edge of Hogsmeade.
Why: To celebrate fall and build community
When: Saturday, October 12 (For Fallin's sake of consistency: The day is a blustery overcast autumn day)
- a corn row maze with enchantments to entertain you as you go
- a giant pumpkin carving station
- apple bobbing - with a magical twist - bob for them in air as they float around you
- toy broomstick making
- live music
- a visit from the Headless Hunt
- classes on drying herbs&flowers/storing seeds/and collecting wild herbs (some will be geared toward children and some toward members of the community who may need a refresher from their school days or did not complete much schooling)
- guided nature walks
- a comedy play by local actors
- pony rides for the children
- wreath making
- fortune telling
- making pine cone poppets and posies
- small critter racing (watch enchanted animals race through a maze of gourds, place bets as you will)
- a petting zoo (including sheep, cows, llamas, chickens, scottish cattle)
- hayrides across the farm grounds
- candle making classes
All activities are free. There will also be vendors set up to sell their goods, anyone who sells at markets in any of the three shopping areas in the community (Hogsmeade, Irvingly, and London) have been invited to set up a stall and sell their wears. The farm will have set up a stall from their store that will sell their farm made goods (honey, wool, yarn, potions, cheese). They have also set up a stall to sell warm apple cider and will be selling pumpkin soup for dinner. Notable vendors will be listed here
Guests are invited to have a picnic lunch. At dinner tables and benches will be brought out for guests to enjoy dinner if they chose to buy or bring it. As the evening falls a bonfire will be lit and enchanted candles will hover over the tables.
Around 8 pm the barn doors will open and guests will be invited inside for a dance. The barn will be decorated (in collaboration with Potts Florist) in fall blooms with enchanted lights above the dance floor. It will smell of apples, hay, and and fall air. The doors will stay open to allow the dancing to spill out into the yard where the supper tables will have been moved away, with the bonfire still playing. Food and drink vendors will still be open but activities will cease when the dance begins. Children are invited to join in the festivities. There is a place set aside with blankets and pillows for those children who are too tired to keep playing and several grandmothers and elderly members of the community will take turns watching the children. It should be noted that the barn is very clean and does not seem as if it is regularly used. If you didn't know better you'd never know that animals are regularly housed there. They have been set to the pastures for the evenings though so no worries about running into them while you are dancing.
Contact Player(s): Sisse Thompsett