Spring & Fiber Fest: Tierra, Agua y Vida

Please join us as we kick off the 2020 season with one of our most traditional events!

Saturday, June 6 & Sunday, June 7, 2020

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

Spring Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas celebrates water, land & life! Please join us for fun, fiber & food. Experience traditional activities like sheep shearing, wool dyeing, canoa carving, rope making, horno bread baking, crafts for children & more!

Visit with our weavers as they turn wool into works of art. Every aspect of traditional fiber arts will be represented in this two-day event.

Spring Fest also welcomes the growing season with a traditional mass & procession in honor of the Museum’s Patron Saint, San Isidro.

Please check back soon for the full 2020 Schedule of Events.

2019 Schedule of Events

Traditional Ongoing Activities & Demonstrations
Saturday & Sunday
10:00am to 4:00pm

Wool Dyeing using natural dyes

Las Golondrinas Weavers & Colcha Artists demonstrate their work

New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum share their fiber program

Make your own tortilla on a comal

Make rope the old fashioned way

Hide Tanning & Flint Knapping

Native Fingerweaving

Learn about a day in the life of women with The Territorial Ladies of New Mexico

Learn about military camp life with the First New Mexico Volunteers

¡El Agua es Vida! Learn about historic acequias with the New Mexico Acequia Association (Saturday only)

See our historic mills running

Listen to the Alabados or hymns sang by Dexter Trujillo

Try some fresh baked horno bread

Make your own adobe bricks (Sunday only)

Trade & Barter in the Country General Store

Visit with the Rio Grande Mule & Donkey Association

See traditional plowing demonstrations

Enjoy the traditional musical styling of Julian Prada

See our Blacksmith hammering away in his shop

Visit our Carpenter as he whittles away

Enjoy Aguas Frescas by La Sociedad Folklorica

Visit our costumed interpreters in our many historic buildings on site

Saturday, June 1st

10:00 am to approx.11:30 am
Traditional San Isidro Mass & Procession

11:00 am, 1:00 pm & 3:00 pm
Española Valley Fiber Arts Center presents:
“Colcha Circle: A Stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture,” a documentary on this traditional folk art

11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Leather Stamping with Tandy Leather

12:00 pm, 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm
Sheep Shearing the old fashioned way

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Paper Weaving in the Cultural Craft Corner

12:30 pm
EntreFlamenco Youth Dancers perform

1:30 pm
Sociedad Colonial Española de Santa Fe dance group performs

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

2:30 pm
Lighting Boy Hoop Dancers perform

Sunday, June 2nd

11:00 am, 1:00 pm & 3:00 pm
Española Valley Fiber Arts Center presents:
“Colcha Circle: A Stitch in Northern New Mexico Culture,” a documentary on this traditional folk art

11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Paper Weaving in the Cultural Craft Corner

11:00 to 2:00 pm
Leather Stamping with Tandy Leather

11:30 am
EntreFlamenco Youth Dancers perform

12:00 pm, 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm
Sheep Shearing the old fashioned way

1:00 pm
Bailé Español dance group performs

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

2:30 pm
Lighting Boy Hoop Dancers perform

2019 Vendors

Aguja y Clavo Jewelry Designs
Angel Artwork
Barrel’s Wood Creations
Barrio Tinwork
Button Box Aprons
Dancing Dolphins
Essentials by Monique
Flora & Foliage
For the Hyphen of it
Grandma Joan’s Choke Cherry Jelly
Humming Desert Alpacas

Hyer Wools
Joseph Morales Santos & Bultos
Le Paris French Bakery
Lori Gallegos
KNIT—Bobbie Sumberg
Kris Theoni Silks
Michelle Wiggins
Mountain Man Gourmet
Mora Valley Spinning
Mystic Earth

Purses by Prissy
Rio Fernando Farm
Santa Fe Honey Salon
TFG Soaps & Such
The Wool Shed
Tumbling Goat
Westfarthing Farm
Equina Wear

Try some delicious food from our in-house caterer YouthWorks!