By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
Saturday’s weather provided the perfect back drop for a stroll into the county agricultural past at the Farm Heritage Days at Unger Farm. The Crawford Park District hosted the annual event to highlight how simply surviving was a hard day’s, and often a hard night’s, work.
Hundreds showed up at Unger Farm to see tools made by hand, fields turned over by mule-drawn plow, and more.
Crawford Park District Director Bill Fisher explained the importance of having events like Farm Heritage Days.
“Our basic goal of Unger Farm Heritage Day, of course, is to highlight our agricultural background here in Crawford County,” Fisher said. “A lot of kids don’t get to see what grandma had on the farm, and grandpa, because grandma and grandpa don’t live on the farm anymore.”
Music was provided by The Hobo Band. There was a petting zoo and the famous, or infamous, outhouse tour. Other things to see and do included butter making, bail romping, and the chuck wagon.