The 47th Annual Harvest Festival

Autumn is a vibrant time to visit the Rancho! Taste syrup from our burro driven sorghum mill, help make cider by cranking a traditional apple press, and pick a pumpkin from our scarecrow-guarded patch. Children can stomp grapes by foot, make corn husk crafts or roll their own delicious tortilla by hand. There’s a lot to do at this long-running and acclaimed event!

Voted #2 Best Fall Harvest Festival in the nation by readers of USA Today.

Saturday, October 5 & Sunday, October 6

Time: 10am to 4pm
Adult Admission: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13–18): $6
12 and under: FREE!

2019 Schedule of Events

Scheduled Activities
(Saturday & Sunday unless noted)

10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Traditional Arts & Crafts Vendors

(Saturday Only – Doors open at 9:45)
10:00 am to approx. 11:30 am
Traditional San Isidro Procession & Mass

11:00AM
Pino House Plaque Dedication Ceremony
Honoring the Pino House Placement on the Register of Historic Properties by The Historic Santa Fe Foundation

10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Stamp your own leather bracelet with Tandy Leather

Saturday at 11:30 am & Sunday at 11:00 am
Rex Rideout presents Songs of the Santa Fe Trail
He will tell of New Mexico’s own Jack Thorp, the first collector of the old cowboy songs.

Saturday 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm & Sunday 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Make a Corn Husk Doll at our Cultural Craft Corner!

12:00 am to 3:00 pm
Wine making demonstration & Grape Crushing (with your feet)

12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Old Fashioned Cider Pressing w/Las Golondrinas Apples

12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Learn about the Las Golondrinas Herb Garden & Farming in NM w/ The Master Gardeners

12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Take a hay ride!

Around 12:00 pm
Try fresh baked Horno Bread!

12:00 pm
Entreflamenco Youth Dancers perform!

1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Stamp your own tin medallion

1:00 pm (Saturday only)
La Sociedad Colonial Español de Santa Fe performs!

1:00 pm (Sunday only)
Bailé Español performs!

2:00 pm
Lightning Boy Hoop Dancers perform!

2:30 pm
Join Dryland Wilds & learn about edible & useful plants of the high desert.
45 min. hands-on walk focuses on the uses of invasive & common plants found throughout northern NM

*Also, the Smell of Fall in New Mexico Perfume has released!
Using multiple ingredients harvested from Las Golondrinas (including the bushel of green chile bought at the harvest festival last year), the perfume is sure to be a hit!
Dryland Wilds is donating 15% of the sales from the first hundred sold to Las Golondrinas!
It centers around smell of roasting chile, cottonwood leaves & burning piñon wood. Get yours this weekend!

3:00 pm
Rex Rideout presents Songs of the Santa Fe Trail
He will tell of New Mexico’s own Jack Thorp, the first collector of the old cowboy songs.

Ongoing from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Pick your own pumpkin in our Pumpkin Patch! ($5 CASH ONLY)

Enjoy traditional New Mexican Folk Music by Julian Prada

Listen to traditional Alabados (Hymns) by Dexter Trujillo

Where There’s a Willow, There’s A Way
Andrew Harvier (Santa Clara & Taos Pueblos) & Judith Harvier (Santa Clara & Pojoaque Pueblos) will demonstrate weaving freshly harvested Northern NM Indian Pueblo Rio Grande willow stems into traditional & contemporary baskets, platters & figurines

Traditional Chile Ristra Stringing & Corn Husking

Larry Marken presents Saddle Bag Survival & Black Powder Demonstrations
What items might a 19th Century mountain man, soldier, or western wanderer have in his saddlebags or on his person for general survival, personal defense, hunting, grooming & recreation?

Visit with Curandera Veronica Iglesias

Buy or Barter in our Country General Store

Make your own Tortillas on the comal

Traditional Agua Fresca demonstration & tasting

Wool Spinning, Carding & Weaving Demonstrations & Activity

Wool Dyeing Demonstration

See the flour mills running

Sorghum Mill Demonstration & Miel Tasting

Hide Tanning & Flint Knapping Demonstrations

Blacksmith & Carpenter Demonstrations

Visit with Wide Sky Alpacas & the Rio Grande Mule & Donkey Association

Mapping the Territory of New Mexico: U.S. Corp of Topographical Engineers in La Cienega in 1846