The 48th Annual Harvest Festival
Saturday, October 3 & Sunday, October 4, 2020
Time: 10am to 4pm
Adult Admission: $8
Seniors (62+), teens (13–18): $6
12 and under: FREE!
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.
Please check back soon for the full 2020 Schedule of Events.
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
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
Visit our incredible costumes docents in our many historic buildings & learn about life in New Mexico’s past.
2019 Vendors
Adorn
Aguja y Clavo
Artful Artisan
A Train of Thought
Barela’s Wood Creations
Barrio Tin and Art
Becky Seligman
Bison Star
Bonnie Catanach
Button Box Aprons
Dancing Dolphins
Disheveled Edge
Divine Palm Art
Drew Gonzales
Dryland Wilds
The Smell of Fall in New Mexico Perfume, using Las Golondrinas ingredients, has been released!
Essentials by Monique
Feathered Moon Farms
Flora & Foliage
Fran’s Straw Applique &Tin Art
Grandma Joan’s Chokecherry Jelly
Heartline Glass and Art
Hil’s Jewelry
Hyer Wools
Imagination Fabrication
Las Golondrinas Weavers
Le Paris French Bakery
Lost and Found
Magarte Pottery
Mettle and Loam
Mia’s Botanicals
M&M Custom Rosaries
Mora Valley Spinning
Mystic Earth
Nambe Tin
Puerta del Sol Alpacas
Rebeka Flamework Glass
Shirley Lynn Fine Art
Scarves by Claire
Susan Suazo Martinez
The Dun Stag
Train of Thought
Warp Zone
Wild Earth Remedies
Ye Ole Kitchen Witch
Thank you to our event sponsor.
