Threshing display at MHV

Fall on the Farm at Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach drew about 15 hundred visitors yesterday. Executive director Barry Dyck says,  "While that's not as many as we would have liked to have and not quite as many as we've had in the last couple of years, this is a good average for this event. And, we were so pleased to see the crowds out with lots of young families, lots of kids enjoying the rides, the petting zoo, the inflatable play structures and so on."

Dyck adds the museum ran plenty of demonstrations. "People particularly seemed to enjoy the hog butchering as well as the chicken slaughtering demonstrations. These were probably two of our more popular places for people to be. The stationary threshing machine, powered by 2 horses, was quite popular. This was a thing that we have not had going for quite a number of years."

Dyck also tells us it was nice to have some wind yesterday. He explains, "There was enough wind to operate the windmill which doesn't happen nearly every festival day. And we made several hundred pounds of flour while people were watching which is a special treat, something unique for us here."