184. Sterns Farm Ice Cream Social

Sunday August 28th come join us at our Ice Cream Social from noon till 4pm.  We will be serving up ice cream cones, sundaes, and root beer floats in the cabin and also a bake sale. Stop by and celebrate with us. We will have a craft for the kids, a basket raffle, and much more. Also the drawing for the framed artist photos will take place on Sunday—- and don’t forget our farm market on Sat. from 9-1pm in the front pasture. We will also have pony rides- weather permitting.

Check out their website HERE!

Location:
6975 Ridge Rd
Parma, OH 44134
440-845-9770

Image:  Goats eating ice cream. © 2009, Diana Cornielle

182. Mapleside Farms Playground

Take the kids out for one more fun day before school starts!  Huge new playground, and an ice cream shoppe next door, as many apples apple dumplings, and apple cider you can drink!

Open Monday - Thursday at 3pm, Admission $3
Friday - Saturday - Sunday at 12 noon, Admission $5

More Info

Location

294 Pearl Road
Brunswick, OH 44212-1198
330-225-5576

170. Open Farm Days

Experience a modern, working dairy farm in Northeast Ohio. Join us for one of our "Open Farm Days" when we welcome visitors onto our farm. You and your family can take a tour of our dairy, relax and watch the cows being milked from The Parlor. Children of all ages will enjoy the Calf Corral playground and children 5 and under will have fun in the indoor Junior Dairyman play area. Drinks and snacks will be available for sale.

The cost is $5/person (must be paid with cash or check).
Children 2 and under admitted free.

Our farm will be open 10:00am to 5:00pm the following days in 2011:

June "Dairy Month"
Saturday, June 4th
Saturday, June 11th
Saturday, June 18th
Saturday, June 25th

More info!

Location:

13200 County Road 3

Burton, OH 44021

151. Maple Sugaring Weekend

Now that the weather is getting warmer, a sure sign of spring is the tapping of maple trees in Kirtland at Lakepark Farms Metropark.  The park has 27 acres of of maple woodlands. It's an amazing network of around 900 trees that are tapped for the maple sugaring collection process.

Hands-on activities

• Hand tree tapping
• Horse-drawn sap gathering.
• Make a model mokuk (bark bucket)
• Maple leaf craft.
• Sample maple syrup and maple sugar
• Learn how to make maple syrup
  in your own backyard.
• Maple flavored ice cream making.
• Sugar bush and maple conservation tours
• History of maple sugar exhibit
• Silver dollar pancake samples

March 12 & 13, 2011
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Admission:
General admission: $6
Ages 60 and older: $5
Ages 2 - 11: $4
Children younger than 2: Free
Lake County resident free days: First Sunday and third Tuesday of each month. 

TONS MORE INFO! 

Location:
8800 Chardon Road
Kirtland, Ohio 44094
(440) 256-2122 · 800-366-3276 

136. Christmas at Stearns Homestead

Christmas at the Farm is December 4 and 5 from 12 to 4pm. Santa will be here and you can have your picture taken with him for a fee. Come and see the horses and rabbits inside the barn. Animal feed will also be for sale. We will be having chili, bakery and Christmas items for sale. The houses will be decorated for ...the Christmas season. There will be free punch and cookies inside the Gibbs house.

Check out their website HERE!

Location:
6975 Ridge Rd
Parma, OH 44134
440-845-9770

Image Provided By:  Stearns Farm

 

131. Candy Cane Christmas

 Every Friday and Saturday December 1-236-9pm Candy Cane Christmas is an ALL INDOOR Activity! For $4.00 you can make a toy with Santa and take it home!Live animal nativity scene! with Reindeer!Model Trains and Miniature Towns! 

$4.00 per child (Ages 1 - 10 years) $3.00 per child (Ages 11 - 99 years) Activities - 50 cents - $1.00

 MORE INFO!

Spring Mist Farm 

691 Pearl Road

Brunswick, Ohio 44212

119. Corn & Pumpkin Harvest Weekend at Lake Farmpark

Experience the harvest season at the annual Corn & Pumpkin Harvest Weekend.

October 9 & 10, 2010
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The festival will be filled with activities that highlight the sights, smells, and tastes of various corn and pumpkin harvest activities!

• Harvest and decorate a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch
• Three-acre corn maze
• Hay maze
• Cornhusk dolls
• Antique harvest demonstrations
• Apple cider and apple butter sampling
• Swifty's Farm (Nation's largest indoor life-size balloon art exhibit!)
• Roping with Cowboy Ben
• Pony rides ($3)
• More!

Admission:

• General, $6
• Ages 60+, $5
• Youth 2 - 11, $4
• Younger than 2, Free
• Farmpark members, Free 

ALL THE INFO!

Location:
8800 Euclid Chardon Rd.
Kirtland, OH 44094
440-256-2122 

116. Patterson Fruit Farm

Located by the pick-your-own areas, this fun area is opening soon. The children have many places to play and explore, like a huge sandbox, pedal cars, and fantastic tree houses in the woods. There are also trails for a short walk, pony rides on some days, and horse drawn wagon rides through the farm. We have gone every year for the last four, and my boys know that once school starts, it is time for Patterson's!

OPEN DAILY Starting
SEPTEMBER 18th
M-Th Hours10am-6pm
Fri, Sat, Sun 10am-5pm
NEOEA Day 10am-5pm
Note: Please know that weekdays until 2pm we host school groups at the fun fest.

MORE INFO!

Location
8765 Mulberry Rd
Chesterland, OH, 44026
440-729-7144

 

Idea Provided By:  Amy Gulas

112. Johnny Appleseed Festival at Mapleside

September 18 & 19 - The 37th Annual Johnny Appleseed Festival
      

Crafters, entertainment, food, corn maze, children's activities, apple pie, apple fritters, apple dumplings and Bag Your Own Apples.

(Admission: Adults: $3, Ages 7-12: $1; Ages 6 & under free)

The annual Johnny Appleseed Festival is the official kick off to the apple harvest season at Mapleside Farms. It features 100 craft exhibits, a corn maze, horse drawn wagon rides through the apple orchards, stage bands, pony rides, fun activities for the kids, an outdoor barbecue with apple butter BBQ ribs, apple pie, apple dumplings, caramel apples and the first Bag Your Own Apples of the season. Also on the property is a rustic, country restaurant serving home cooked food, the Farm Market & Bakery, the Gift Shop and the Deli & Cafe and Ice Cream Parlor.

MORE INFO!

Location

294 Pearl Road
Brunswick, OH 44212-1198

 

111. Rosby Berry Farm

It's that time of the year, get some yummy berries with the kids!

HOURS VARY
Always check online or by phone just before coming to pick. We may close for a day or part of a day if there are no more ripe berries available to pick or during adverse weather conditions. Otherwise we are open:
Monday - Friday:	9 AM - Dusk
Saturday & Sunday:	9 AM - 3 PM
The raspberry picking season runs until Halloween.

ALL THE INFO!


Location

42 E Schaaf Rd

Cleveland, OH 44131-1202

Get Directions

(216) 351-0850

82. Hale Farm Fun!

This weekend July 10-11, 2010 there are three awesome events going on at Hale Farm!

1 - Music in the Valley with folk musicians.  July 10-11 from 10am to 5pm. Admission is $10 for adults/seniorsand $5 for children age 3-12. Members of the Western Reserve Historical Society and children 2 & under are free.
2 - Hale Hearty Dinner Fiddles and Vittles.  July 10 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Fiddles & Vittles is part of a new food program that blends history, theater, and authentic 19th century fare with local foods for a unique, entertaining dining experience.  $15 per person.
3 - Hale Ghost Tour.   July 10 Presentation at 8:00 pm Walking Tour begins at 9:00 pm.   This is a hauntingly historical Hale Farm & Village walking tour and presentation led by Western Reserve Paranormal with tips on how to be a ghost hunter and to see real collected evidence. The tour visits Ira Road Cemetery and Hale Farm & Village with an option to continue on a late night walk to Indigo Lake. Admission is $10. Not recommended for children. (I'd say older kids would love this, not so much the younger ones, they're not up at 9pm anyway!

MORE INFO

Location
2686 Oak Hill Road
Bath, OH 44210

61. Hale Farm Festival & Pioneer Weekend

Hale Farm Festival & Pioneer Weekend  June 12-13,2010.

The pioneers have invaded Hale Farm and Village! Join us for this new family event weekend and explore early 19th century life complete with soldiers from the War of 1812. $10 adults/seniors, $5 ages 3-12, free WRHS members and ages 2 and under. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

More INFO HERE!

Location:
Hale Farm and Village
2686 Oak Hill Road
Bath, Ohio 44333
330-666-3711

26. Stearns Farm and Homestead

Come spend an afternoon at Stearns Homestead, the last working, educational farm in Parma, Ohio. This forty eight acre farm has lots of animals – always a favorite with the children – as well as several historic museum houses and a Yankee barn, loaded with antiques and historic items.  They have a country store and a Farmers Market throughout the summer and fall, where you can purchase homestead and locally grown produce, products made from goats milk, local honey, baked goods and much more.

Hours open to the public:
Saturday and Sunday 12 noon- 4:00 p.m.
May 16, 2010 through Mid-October

Special Earth Day Celebration! April 25, 2010 from noon until 4:00 PM.  
Come and spend an enjoyable afternoon- the animals are anxiously awaiting all their old friends and to meet some new ones too. There will be lots of activities.  This years theme is ” Recycle- Reuse”. They will have crafts for the kids to make and take home, a potter at work, and many more demonstrations and handouts.  Also- please save all your newspapers and bring them with you- we will be collecting them for the SPCA No Kill shelter on Brookpark Road, in Parma—- let’s fill up the back of  a pick-up truck!  Please join us- remember admission and parking is always free!



Check out their website HERE!

Location:
6975 Ridge Rd
Parma, OH 44134
440-845-9770

Image Provided By:  Stearns Farm

Idea Provided By:  Becky Koranda

21. Lake Farmpark

Go country with the kids and teach them where their food really comes from!  Daily hands-on activities include milking the cows, cheese making and grinding your own grains!  And you can hang out with the cows, llamas, sheep, pigs, rabbits, turkeys, chickens, horses, honeybees and lots more!  There is a cafe onsite for some snacks and ice cream.  Also on Wednesdays, May - October there is a farmers market with locally grown fruits veggies and other local/organic deliciousness!

They have MANY special events planned for the 2010 season, so make sure you visit their site HERE!

Farmpark is open year-round 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Admission:
General admission: $6
Ages 60 and older: $5
Ages 2 - 11: $4
Children younger than 2: Free
Lake County resident free days: First Sunday and third Tuesday of each month. 

Location:
8800 Chardon Road
Kirtland, Ohio 44094

Image Provided By:  Lake Metroparks Farmpark

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