What:  The Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms takes place on 13 participating Skagit Valley area family farms located in Bow, Burlington, Concrete, Mount Vernon, La Conner, Rockport and Sedro-Woolley. Download the official tour map here. Festival features tons of activities for kids, farm stands, produce and u-pick fields at the peak of the harvest [...]

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What: Welcome Autumn in with old-fashioned family fun at a turn of the century farm.

Tour the 103-year-old house, preserved
much as it looked 100 years ago.
Pick heirloom apples and churn your own butter.

Potato races

Pumpkin carving

Scarecrow making

Hay bale maze

Storytellers and musicians.

Where: Hovander Homestead Park, 5299 Neilsen Rd, Ferndale, WA [map]

When: Sat., [...]

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What: The Assumption Church Harvest Festival is a long-standing fall event in Bellingham. All are welcome. This year the celebration comprises: crafts - sports bar - kids’ games with prizes - used books for sale - spaghetti feed on Saturday Sept. 27 [...]

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What: Friends of the Seattle Library Fall Booksale, 2008. Over 200,000 books and other items for sale: art prints and posters - audiocassettes - CDs - computer software - sheet music - DVDs and videocasettes. Most books are priced at $1.00, but the sale also features “better books” including recent releases and rare and collectible [...]

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Model railroading is a time-honored hobby which many enjoy, and which virtually everyone has heard of. “Model Circus Building,” however, is a pastime with which I was unfamiliar until now. But it’s really not so quirky as it sounds at first; in fact, it’s more or less the non-virtual predecessor of computer programs which allow [...]

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Where else in the county are you going to get the opportunity to sample from over 200 varieties of apples, European and Asian pears, kiwis, grapes, cider and jams and jellies of “unusual small fruits?”

What: Cloud Mountain Farm Fall Fruit Festival: Fruit sampling, wine and hard-cider tasting (to sign up for the tasting, call the [...]

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