Historic Cane Hill will present the 2024 Cane Hill Harvest Festival on September 21, 2024. The Harvest Festival is one of the longest-running community events in Northwest Arkansas.
The Harvest Festival offers visitors an engaging experience combining history, Ozark culture, and a natural setting with modern amenities and entertainment. Visitors to the 2024 Festival can enjoy a country breakfast, food trucks, live music, an “Arts and Eats” market, sorghum pressing and cooking demonstrations, craft demonstrations, tours of historic buildings, a quilt show, a live pie auction, and a kids zone with free activities from Crystal Bridges, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, the University of Arkansas Entomology Department, and more.
The Cane Hill Harvest Festival kicks off with a Country Breakfast from 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM. Festival activities begin at 8:00 AM and run until 3:30 PM. The festivities are held on the grounds of Cane Hill College, 14219 College Rd. (WC4762), Cane Hill, AR 72717.
Tickets to the festival are $5 for adults, kids ages 12 and under are admitted free. Breakfast tickets at $8 for adults and $5 for ages 12 and under. Bundled breakfast and festival admittance tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. HCH members get two free adult admission tickets, and membership may be purchased on at https://historiccanehillar.org/membership/ or at the festival.
Tickets are available at the entrance gate or may be purchased online at https://historiccanehillar.org/festival/. Parking is free.
2024 Schedule of Events
DINE WITH US
Enjoy the Country Breakfast
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
$8 - Adults - (Adult festival & breakfast ticket bundle only $12!)
$5 - Kids (12 & under)
Food Trucks
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
3 Chicks Cones- Concessions and Catering
Blue’s Concessions
Deep South BBQ
Nolen’s Kettle Korn and Cinnamon Roasted Nuts
The Notable Noodle
Yummy Yang’s
ENJOY LIVE MUSIC
8 AM - 3:30 PM
Put on your dancing shoes or bring a chair to enjoy a full lineup of live music, including:
8:00 AM Tara and the Gift Horses
9:45 AM Boonsboro Bandits
10:45 AM Mountain Gypsies
12:30 PM Squirrel Jam
2:00 PM LIVE Pie Auction
2:30 PM Raising Cane
Historic Cane Hill Roots Music Groups
NEW THIS YEAR! Live Pie Auction
2:00 PM
Bring your sweet tooth and your pocketbook to ensure you can take home a pie from a community member or local business. This LIVE pie auction is sure to entertain as well as satisfy.
ALL DAY ACTIVITIES
8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Kids Zone
Activities from Crystal Bridges, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Washington County 4-H, the University of Arkansas Entomology Department, and more!
Arts and Eats Market
Shop for goods and gifts from local artisans and crafters
Historic Building Visits
Take the unique opportunity to peek inside the 1886 Cane Hill College and 1891 Cane Hill Presbyterian Church, winner of the 2020 Arkansas Preservation Award for Excellence in Preservation through Restoration.
Sorghum Pressing Demonstration
See the process of pressing sorghum cane with an antique press using
local draft horses to transform the cane juice into sorghum molasses!
Craft Demonstrations
Including lace tatting, textile spinning & weaving, blacksmithing, beekeeping, antique tractors, and more!
Community Creative Center’s Wheel Mobile
Have a “wheel of a time” as you try your hand throwing pottery.
Free 30-minute mini-workshops are available to ages 10 and up.
Quilt Show & Drawing
Featuring antique and contemporary quilts from the region
Ozark Folk Paintings of Essie Ward
Often called the “Grandma Moses of the Ozarks,” Essie Treat Ward (1902-1981) painted scenes of the often-humorous everyday life of fictional Ozark characters Miranda and Hezzakiah. A selection of paintings are on display in the Gallery courtesy of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History.
Buddy Up with the Bur Oak
Did you know that the state Co-Champion Bur Oak tree grows on HCH’s campus? In addition to its impressive size, this tree is a “witness tree” to the Trail of Tears.
Ask a Master Gardener
Washington County Master Gardeners are on site near our wildflower gardens to answer questions about how to incorporate native plants into your garden.
