Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25 • 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown. Advance registration required

Cooperstown, New York — Join the knowledgeable staff at The Farmers’ Museum for two workshops during Herbal Remedies Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, June 24 and 25. The workshops give participants a hands-on experience learning traditional nineteenth-century medicinal practices. 

Balms and Salves Workshop
Saturday, June 24. 1:00 p.m-4:00 p.m.

Learn how to make your own tinctures, extracts, balms, salves, and rubs. Make your own to take home. Stock your medicine cabinet with a variety of homemade remedies for everyday ailments – bruises, cuts, burns or sore muscles – all made from natural ingredients! Learn about the properties of plants, from the backyard as well as from the spice rack, and how to make tinctures, extracts, balms, salves, and rubs, then make your own to take home. It’s a cheap, natural, and fun alternative to a trip to the pharmacy.

Class Fee:  Members: $70 / Non-members $80. Lunch will be provided. Requires advance registration, limited to 8 participants, recommended for ages 14 and older. Please bring an apron or wear comfortable clothes that can get dirty. Closed-toe shoes are required. 

Backyard Weeds Workshop
Sunday, June 25, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

Learn how what many consider weeds have medical, culinary, cosmetic, and household uses. After a weed walk make and sample herbal creations. This program explores the many uses of plants that most of us refer to as weeds. Burdock, dandelion, sumac, and plantain are just a few of the plants that will be explored. While participants learn about the history of these plants they will also discover the medical, culinary, cosmetic and household uses. Participants will go on a weed walk around the museum grounds while learning how to identify and gather plant material. The walk will be followed by a workshop making and taste-testing samples of teas and herbal treats produced from these plants. Recipes and other handouts will be given to workshop participants.

Class Fee:  Members: $55 / Non-members $65. Lunch will be provided. Requires advance registration, limited to 8 participants, recommended for ages 14 and older. Please bring an apron or wear comfortable clothes that can get dirty. Closed-toe shoes are required.

All workshops require advance registration. For workshop more information and to register, visit FarmersMuseum.org. Please email d.anderson@farmersmuseum.org with any questions. Workshops are held at The Farmers’ Museum located at 5775 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, New York.

About The Farmers’ Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, New York, provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life first-hand through authentic demonstrations and interpretative exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places, a recreated historic village circa 1845, the Empire State Carousel, and a working farmstead. Through its 19th-century village and farm, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. The Farmers’ Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, and hand planes to plows. The museum also presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich agricultural history of the region.

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Jump-Start Your Garden at The Farmers’ Museum’s Annual Heritage Plant Sale

Saturday and Sunday, May 27-28, 2023 • 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY / Main Entrance

Cooperstown, New York — For over two decades, gardeners in Central New York have relied on the Heritage Plant Sale at The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown for hardy, distinctive plants. On Saturday and Sunday, May 27-28 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., gardeners can get an organic jump-start with seedlings of heirloom varieties grown with organic soil and fertilizer. Over 500 will be available including 250 potted tomato plants. This annual event takes place outside the museum’s main entrance (no admission fee) and proceeds benefit the museum gardens.

Gardeners can purchase plants and cuttings from the museum’s Botanical Specimen Garden.

Many of the plants on sale are propagated from well-established rootstock by Patrick MacGregor, Manager of Interpretation and manager of the historic gardens at The Farmers’ Museum. Find a wide selection of perennials as well as pumpkin, squash, cucumber, and multiple varieties of tomatoes. With their unique character, heritage varieties make an excellent addition to any gardener’s landscape.

The museum’s stores have many related items for experienced and beginning gardeners. Find garden tools, books, and seeds for heirloom varieties of vegetables, flowers, and herbs.

The Farmers’ Museum is located at 5775 Route 80 in Cooperstown, just north of the village. Visit FarmersMuseum.org for more information.

About The Farmers’ Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, New York, provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life first-hand through authentic demonstrations and interpretative exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places, a recreated historic village circa 1845, the Empire State Carousel, and a working farmstead. Through its 19th-century village and farm, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. The Farmers’ Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, and hand planes to plows. The museum also presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich agricultural history of the region.

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April 22, 2023 • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Delight your family and friends by sending them a unique handmade greeting card! Choose from our collection of type, ornaments, and illustrations to create your own text and design, learn how to set it by hand and lock it in a chase before taking it to our 1862 Liberty Press to print.

Class Fee: Members $85, lunch included.  Non-members $95. Lunch will be provided. All materials (up to 25 cards) included. Requires advance registration, class limited to 6 participants.  Please bring an apron or comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.

Please email d.anderson@farmersmuseum.org with any questions.

Reserve your spot at HERE!

About The Farmers’ Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, New York, provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life first-hand through authentic demonstrations and interpretative exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places, a recreated historic village circa 1845, the Empire State Carousel, and a working farmstead. Through its 19th-century village and farm, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. The Farmers’ Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, and hand planes to plows. The museum also presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich agricultural history of the region.

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April 1, 2023 • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Spend your day in the kitchen of the Lippitt Farm House learning how to bake traditional breads, cakes, and treats! Fire and bake in the brick bake oven, as well as a bake kettle, or Dutch oven. Share your delicious goods at the end of the session or take them home to impress your family!

Class Fee: Members $95, lunch included. Non-members $105. Lunch is provided. All ingredients included and each participant will take home a cookbook with historical recipes. Requires advance registration, limited to 6 participants. Please bring an apron or comfortable clothes that you wouldn’t mind getting dirty. Closed-toe shoes are required. Location: Lippitt Farmstead.

Please email d.anderson@farmersmuseum.org with any questions.

Reserve your spot at HERE!

About The Farmers’ Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, New York, provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life first-hand through authentic demonstrations and interpretative exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places, a recreated historic village circa 1845, the Empire State Carousel, and a working farmstead. Through its 19th-century village and farm, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. The Farmers’ Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, and hand planes to plows. The museum also presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich agricultural history of the region.

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April 1, 2023 • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT

This is an introductory class geared toward people who are interested in beginning to learn about the art of blacksmithing. Participants will learn how to build and maintain a fire in the forge, heat metal, and practice hammer control while using the traditional tools and methods of a blacksmith. Each participant will build and take home their choice of a uniquely hand-crafted item.

Class Fee:  Members, $110 including lunch and all materials.  Non-members, $120 including lunch and all materials. Requires advance registration, limited to 2 participants that must be 14 years and older. Please wear natural-fiber only clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty (wool, cotton, leather, but NO SYNTHETICS) with full-length sleeves and legs. No open-toed shoes. Location: Field Blacksmith Shop, The Farmers’ Museum

Please email d.anderson@farmersmuseum.org with any questions.

Reserve your spot at HERE!

About The Farmers’ Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, New York, provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life first-hand through authentic demonstrations and interpretative exhibits. The museum, founded in 1943, comprises a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places, a recreated historic village circa 1845, the Empire State Carousel, and a working farmstead. Through its 19th-century village and farm, the museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. The Farmers’ Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, and hand planes to plows. The museum also presents a broad range of interactive educational programs for school groups, families, and adults that explore and preserve the rich agricultural history of the region.

FarmersMuseum.org