Find out how Diwali, five day festival of lights, is celebrated – origins of the festival, lighting oil lamps, offerings to the goddess Lakshmi and god Ganesha, special Diwali sweets and snacks, and children’s books.
Read more…Farm Trails Fall: Bounty of Sonoma County
Last weekend it was Farm Trails in Sonoma County – kids can visit family-run farms, pet goats and mini-horses, pick your own pumpkins, learn about farming that improves soil and raises healthy animals, shop for just-picked fruits and vegetables, eggs, jams, honey and cheeses.
Read more…Gravenstein Apple Fair
Every August the Gravenstein Apple Fair is a popular event for families, so we drove out to Sebastopol last weekend. At the fair, kids can eat heirloom Gravenstein apples, pet dairy cows, mini horses, pygmy goats and pigs, run around a hay maze, press fresh apple juice and climb on tractors.
Read more…Petaluma Adobe: Rancho Living History Day
On Living History Day at the Petaluma Adobe, step back in time to a working ranch of 1840. Volunteers dress up in historic clothing, and kids have fun with hands-on activities – write with a quill pen, stamp designs on leather, weave a basket , rope a “bull,” listen to music, find out what life is like 150 years ago.
Read more…Sonoma Farm Trails: Hello baby goats & lambs
Kids will have fun on spring Farm Trails, a weekend visiting working farms in Sonoma County, seeing (and petting) baby goats, lambs, pot-bellied pigs, chickens, miniature horses, and sampling locally produced eggs, cheese, honey.
Read more…“Vamos a Feria” in Seville
April is time for the spring fair in Seville – Feria de Abril. Horse drawn carriages clip clop through the streets, at the fairground families and friends gather in “casetas” to eat, drink, sing and dance, kids rush onto amusement park rides, thousands of lights twinkle and glow in the darkness at night.
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