Harvest Festival and Harvest Home

On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October we are celebrating Harvest Festival and Harvest Home as part of our month long Festival of Agriculture which celebrates the agricultural and rural heritage of the North East of England.

Harvest Home

There’ll be a bustle of culinary activity at our 1940s Farm and Pockerley Old Hall on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of October for the annual Harvest Home Supper Displays. 

There will be traditional recipes of the period being made, along with fantastic table displays. There will also be opportunities to have a go at corn dolly making at Pockerley Old Hall.

Harvest Festival

Every year the Beamish Youth Club comes in to help us celebrate Harvest Festival. They will gather flowers and vegetables from the gardens in The Pit Village before processing into church with posies and vegetable offerings.

Harvest Festival is a celebration of food grown on the land. The idea of the Harvest Festival as we know it dates back to the 1840’s when the church would be decorated with flowers and home grown produce and hymns such as “We plough the fields and scatter” and “All things bright and beautiful” would be sung.

A short service will take place in which hymns will be sung and thanks given for all the wonderful food that has been grown on the land.

Festival of Agriculture

Harvest Festival and Harvest Home forms part of the Festival of Agriculture, a whole season celebrating the agricultural and rural heritage of North East England which runs from the 4th September to 5th October and incorporates:

• Agricultural Power from the Past - 4th to 7th September
• Beamish Leek Show - 13th & 14th September
• Agricultural Show, 18th to 21st September
• Hands on Heritage Skills (inc Quilters Exhibition), 27th & 28th September
• Harvest Festival and Harvest Home, 4th & 5th October

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/ne000004?id=EVENT438654