The Vermont Woodworking & Forest Festival will be held this weekend at the Billings Farm Museum and the National Park in Woodstock, Saturday and Sunday September 24-25, from 10 to 5pm

There will be exhibitors selling work, including fine furniture, turned bowls, handmade jewelry boxes and more. There will also be demonstrations in Windsor chair making, carving, horse logging, saw millling and more at both the museum and the National Park (across the road from the farm).
Live music and wood fired pizza too!

Register today for a Spoon Carving Workshop at Vermont Forest Festival
Carve Your Own Wooden Spoon Workshop Time: 10:30am AND 2:30pm
Location: Carriage Barn Visitor Center, National Park
Join Andre Souligny of spoonderlust.com for this 90 minute workshop on wooden spoon carving. Classes at 10:30am and 2:30pm both days. Limit 8 participants per class, ages 14 and up, fee: $25 per student.
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FREE activities at Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park:

- Join a ranger for a 30-45 min. program about a special nature topic, from bird nests to squirrels.
- Coffee With Your New Windsor County Forester
- See logs transformed into lumber at a portable sawmill.
- Learn how to identify forest invaders and what you can do to protect our woodlands, yards, and parks.
- Seek out treasures hidden in the Mount Tom Forest.
- Assemble, decorate, and take home a birdhouse using lumber harvested and cut here in the park and milled at last year's Forest Festival.
- Ride in a horse-drawn wagon with a park ranger to explore areas of the forest and visit the Pony Pasture activity hub.
- Make a walking stick, decorate wood medallions, and play with wooden games.
- Meet some Vermont draft horses at work in the woods.
- Wander the woods with Walter Poleman, Field Naturalist
& More!!

More info:

http://www.vermontwoodfestival.org/

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