21st Annual SPUD FEST
Celebrating Maryland's Potato Harvest Tradition
Saturday August 23rd, 2025 10am-4pm
Experience Traditions from the Potato Harvest
Food and Ice CreamTrucks both days. Homemade Potato Candy. We do not charge an admission fee for the activities. Parking is by donation.
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Children's Potato Picking Registration- all children(or the adults accompanying them) must register.
Registration starts promptly at 10am until 11am. Please bring a change of shoes, clothes or towels as children will get dirty.
Draft Horses Plowing Demonstration. Location: The Potato Patch
Prior to each age group running into the field to pick potatoes, draft horses must first plow the rows to dig up the crop.
11am - 12pm
Kids Potato Picking Contests Location. The Potato Patch
11am - 12pm
Children are each assigned a group based upon their age:(ages 2,3,4) (5,6,7) (8,9,10,11)
Greg the Pharmacist from the Pry House Medicinal Garden. Location: Dr. Fahrney Cabin and Medicinal Garden, Rural Village. 11am-4pm Learn about our 1800's percolation vessel on display in the Dr. Fahrney cabin, once used to filter the drug out of the plant mixture.
Homemade Potato Chips Demonstration - Location: Spickler Country Store, Rural Village
10am-12:30pm
Potatoes are picked fresh from the field and then deep fried in a barrel of cooking oil. We give out small bags of samples while they last.
Adult Pick Your Own Fresh Field Potatoes
12:15pm
We supply the 5 gallon buckets for this activity. It starts after the children's contests are completed. Cost is $10 for a five gallon bucket of potatoes. Pick up your buckets at the potato registation table.
Children's Tractor Pedal Pull.
12:15pm
organized by the Washington County Antique Tractor Club. This contest starts after the potato picking contest is completed.
Farm Museum, Transportation Museum and Early LIving Museums
Open at 11am
Our farm museum will be open both days with displays of the heritage equipment that was used to cultivate and harvest potatoes using horse power and then tractor power.
Experience Traditions from the Potato Harvest
Food and Ice CreamTrucks both days. Homemade Potato Candy. We do not charge an admission fee for the activities. Parking is by donation.
- - - - - - - - -
Children's Potato Picking Registration- all children(or the adults accompanying them) must register.
Registration starts promptly at 10am until 11am. Please bring a change of shoes, clothes or towels as children will get dirty.
Draft Horses Plowing Demonstration. Location: The Potato Patch
Prior to each age group running into the field to pick potatoes, draft horses must first plow the rows to dig up the crop.
11am - 12pm
Kids Potato Picking Contests Location. The Potato Patch
11am - 12pm
Children are each assigned a group based upon their age:(ages 2,3,4) (5,6,7) (8,9,10,11)
Greg the Pharmacist from the Pry House Medicinal Garden. Location: Dr. Fahrney Cabin and Medicinal Garden, Rural Village. 11am-4pm Learn about our 1800's percolation vessel on display in the Dr. Fahrney cabin, once used to filter the drug out of the plant mixture.
Homemade Potato Chips Demonstration - Location: Spickler Country Store, Rural Village
10am-12:30pm
Potatoes are picked fresh from the field and then deep fried in a barrel of cooking oil. We give out small bags of samples while they last.
Adult Pick Your Own Fresh Field Potatoes
12:15pm
We supply the 5 gallon buckets for this activity. It starts after the children's contests are completed. Cost is $10 for a five gallon bucket of potatoes. Pick up your buckets at the potato registation table.
Children's Tractor Pedal Pull.
12:15pm
organized by the Washington County Antique Tractor Club. This contest starts after the potato picking contest is completed.
Farm Museum, Transportation Museum and Early LIving Museums
Open at 11am
Our farm museum will be open both days with displays of the heritage equipment that was used to cultivate and harvest potatoes using horse power and then tractor power.
18th/19th c. era Petting Zoo: 11am - close, both days
Kids will get to meet Katie and learn first hand how a Civil War era soldier would have cared for a horse who would have carried him into battle. Location: Blacksmith Shop, Rural Village
Meet two 18th century interpreters and two young Nigerian Dwarf goats. Learn about to end of summer life for men and women in the 18th century, and goats and their uses in history. Location: Rural Village. Look for the goats!
University of Maryland Master Gardeners presentations:
--Dr. Fahrney Historic Building in the Villagev -Medicinal herb garden 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Herbal arrangements & potato crafts Meaningful designs & potato stamps
--Children’s learning area 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Make a
potato scarecrow
--Heritage Farmstead 4-square garden 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Using potatoes to propagate woody plants
--Heritage Farmstead Butteryfly Garden - 10a.m. - 2 p.m. Birds, bats, bees, bugs and butterflies Welcome beneficial insects & wildlife to gardens
--Dr. Fahrney Historic Building in the Villagev -Medicinal herb garden 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Herbal arrangements & potato crafts Meaningful designs & potato stamps
--Children’s learning area 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Make a
potato scarecrow
--Heritage Farmstead 4-square garden 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Using potatoes to propagate woody plants
--Heritage Farmstead Butteryfly Garden - 10a.m. - 2 p.m. Birds, bats, bees, bugs and butterflies Welcome beneficial insects & wildlife to gardens
Sunday August 24th, 2025 11am-3pm
Children's Potato Sack Races. 12pm-1pm.
Farmstead Outdoor Summer Cooking, butter churning and spinning. Location - Farmstead
Broom-making. Location - Broom-makers Shop Village
18th/19th century Petting Zoo. Location - Meet a soldiers horse by the Blacksmith Shop in the Village and at the Farmstead, meet the sheep!
Colonial Period Accessories Try-on for Children --Location - Glass Family Cabin in the Village
Try your hand at turning a hand crank to start an 1900's automobile. Location - Transportation Museum
Washington County Antique Tractor Club Tractor Pull- First show ring on your left as you reach the top of the hill behind the windmill.
We will be making butter in this 18th butter urn while baking in the outdoor oven. Tasty samples will be available.
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Children try on hats, bonnets, and cloaks.
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