Visit the past and marvel at how things were done at the 50th Annual Old-Fashioned Farmers’ Days Sat, Aug 30-Sun Aug 31, 9am-6pm, the longest-running event in Chatham County. The Old-Fashioned Farmers’ Day event is held every Labor Day weekend at the Silk Hope Farm Heritage Park. Admission is $5 per person and free for children ages 6 and under.

Exhibits, demonstrations, and entertainment occur throughout the day, including clogging in the show barn, antique tractor pulls, a junior dairy show, raffle drawings, and much more.

DIRECTIONS

The festival is located one hour west of Raleigh, NC, off US 64, one-hour southeast of Greensboro via US 421 and US 64, 45 minutes south of Burlington, NC, via NC 87 and Lindley Mill/Silk Hope-Lindley Mill Rd, and six miles northeast of Siler City, Chatham County, NC.