Making hats by braiding natural fibres is considered an art by some, but at one time, it was simply a fact of life.  During the late 18th to early 19th centuries, the wearing of straw hats by farmers and laborers was quite common in both North America and Europe, since the materials were inexpensive and...Read more >

In early days, children attended a small one room school house.  Step back in time and become a student again.  Learn about the need for proper figuring skills, and the importance of good penmanship, at the Ross Farm Museum..

5 wk session with instructor, Mona Keddy, at the NRFRC. Cost: $60.00 The practice of yoga creates opportunities for increased stength, stability and mobility as well as a deepening ease of being.  Through this 5-wk course learn how to balance the breath and the recognition of profound stillness within each of us. Mona has been...Read more >

At Ross Farm today hear the roar of the saws and the smell of the freshly cut spruce and balsam fir as the mill produce barrel staves and heads for our cooperage shop. At the cooperage shop you will see our cooper building the various types of barrels.

Staff at the Ross Farm Museum will demonstrate hat making using strips of wood known as "sheens" stripped from freshly-gathered yellow-birch logs