The annual hand scything competition will be held on Saturday, August 27th, along with other activities like the hay on the folk lift. Check our website for updates. For more information, or to sign up please call 1-877-689-2210 or email rossfarm@novascotia.ca
At the Ross Farm, you can 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.
Today at Ross Farm Museum , staff will be on hand to inform and demonstrate the steps involved from planting of the seed to the spinning of the fiber.
Today is the 200th Birthday of the settlement of New Ross. Come and join the guests at Rose Bank Cottage to celebrate the past and enjoy an old-fashioned tea party from 2:00 - 4:00pm. Visitors are invited to dress in costume and take part in a tea party outside Rose Bank Cottage. There will be...Read more >
At Ross Farm on Wednesday, July 13th, you can hear the roar of the saws and the smell of the freshly cut spruce and balsam fir as the saw 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.
Join Christy Ann Conlin for a reading from her new novel, 'The Memento', a literary ghost story, published by Doubleday/Penguin Random House. Christy Ann will share her love of ghost stories, discuss the haunted embroidery in the novel, and how growing up in rural Nova Scotia and participating in 4-H shaped her literary career.
Visit Ross Farm on Saturday, July 9th and Sunday, July 10th, and chat with our interpreters as they demonstrate the beautiful art of both needle and shuttle tatting.
Members of the Atlantic Spinners and Weavers Guild will be demonstrating at the museum on Sunday, July 3rd from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in the Learning Centre.
Join Polly on July 2nd for a conversation about the antique quilts displayed in the Learning Centre this summer, how and why they were produced, what we can learn about the people and the time period from these textiles.
Drop by Rosebank Cottage for Cake and refreshments.
General Inquiries
New Ross Regional Development Society
PO Box 23, 7 Forties Rd.,
New Ross, NS B0J 2M0
Email: newrossregdevsociety@gmail.com
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