Weekend options: Down on the farm
May 18, 2017 at 9:37PM
Let Holz Farm put a spring into your step with a day of family activities. Learn how to grow veggies and flowers in garden planting demonstrations and how families cleaned clothes before the invention of electric washing machines. Participate in pie-eating contest and farm challenges. Live performances by Czech Area Concertina Club, Eagan Men's Chorus and others. (11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun. Free. Holz Farm, 4665 Manor Dr., Eagan. cityofeagan.com.)
MELISSA WALKER
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