Beautiful Day For Farmer’s Market Farewell
In what may turn out to be the last summer-like weekend of the year, those at the annual Syracuse Fall Harvest Festival enjoyed picture perfect, sunny and warm weather, and sent the artisan and farmer’s market off with a bang for another season.
Sidewalks at Veterans Memorial Park at Crosson Mill in Syracuse were thick with families eating ham and bean soup, sipping fresh squeezed apple cider, shopping at 35 vendor booths, painting pumpkins and jumping up and down during the miniature pig races.
This past Saturday’s event saw the greatest turnout for the annual festival to date. Approximately 200 children took advantage of the hayrides being offered throughout the day.
“It was great,” said Tyler McLead with the Syracuse Parks and Recreation Department. “According to those who have been around for the five years we’ve been having the Harvest Festival, they definitely think it’s the best turnout we’ve ever had.”
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- Elliette Pulley, left, and Audrey Musgrave concentrate on decorating some pretty pumpkins at the booth set up at the fall festival.
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- Crowds of folks enjoyed the Syracuse Farmer’s and Artisan Market booths for the final day of the season during the fall festival. The market will open again in May 2014.
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- Seventeen-year-old Ivory West, a singer, song writer and guitarist from Pierceton, performed original and cover songs at the fall festival. She has already performed several times at the farmer’s market this year and regularly plays fairs, festivals and other events throughout the Midwest.
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- Mia Hodgson spends time with a goat while looking for the next animal to pet at the petting farm set up at the fall festival. Chickens, a donkey, rabbits and baby pot belly pigs were all part of this year’s petting farm.
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- With paints, stickers, and more, kids at Saturday’s Syracuse Fall Harvest Festival decorated many boo-tiful pumpkins.
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- The pot belly pig races, provided by Animal Grams of North Manchester, were a hit with young and old alike. When they weren’t distracted by the falling leaves, three, little pigs raced around the tracks to the cheers of those who watched.
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- Kiera Mahnken lobs a pumpkin at some butternut squash “pins” at the pumpkin bowling alley set up at the fall festival.
