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Poster for CarrotFest, promoting the event as the World's Greatest Carrot Festival. CarrotFest was also established in 1998 as Super Saturday before changing it's name to CarrotFest in 2000.
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Alonzo Milligan Williams farming in the 1940s.
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A hand powered wheat seed grinder. The grinder can be used by holding the handle and rolling it back and forth over seeds until ground. Wheat was one of the agricultural products grown in the Holland Marsh area. Part of a donation by Tom Fuller Jr. that consists of items used in agriculture on the Holland Marsh.
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Article about the 2000 Carrotfest. It outlines events and festivities. Article also contains the year's winning poem, entitled "Vegetables," by David Budvet.
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An interview with Mr. and Mrs. John West, discussing harvesting onions, potatoes and carrots, with mentions on the harvesting machines that were used in farming such vegetables.
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A three horse team pulls a binder cutting grain on the Adair Farm on Con. 8 in approximately 1922. Wesley Adair stands on binder with Peggy and Laura Adair (sister and sister-in-law) in front.
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Wesley Adair Working the Fields
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Summer harvest of Wesley Adair Con. 8 Farm, 1947. Three team of horses pulling binder (Jimmy, Ted and Nell).
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Fait partie de Local History Collection
Ford tractor on Adair farm on Con. 8 with one furrow plow. Wesley Adair with dog Teddy in the early 1950's.
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Wesley Adair plowing with one furrow plow and a team of horses on his farm on Con. 8.
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Three articles in the Aug 14, 2014 edition of the Bradford Times, all relating to Carrotfest events.
"CarrotFest, voted the #1 street festival in Ontario, returns this August, with over 300 vendors, Ontario Dock Dogs Competition at the Bradford Community Centre, buskers and live entertainment on stage, Gable Bros. Midway, Pro Wrestling, great food and much more. ..."
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