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Sweetwater Harvest Festival

  • Wye Marsh & Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons 16164 Ontario 12 Midland, ON, L0K 1R0 Canada (map)

Sweetwater Harvest Festival

Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons and Friends of Wye Marsh

Start at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons featuring:

  • Arts and crafts market

  • Indoor and outdoor scavenger hunts

  • Cornbread in the cookhouse

  • Try on historical costumes

  • Play Indigenous games and take some home

  • Make your own clay pots and okies

  • Create and decorate a corn husk doll

  • Plant the three sisters for your home garden (corn, beans, squash)

  • Watch birchbark basket-building demonstrations

  • Try historic teas and listen to Indigenous stories

  • Learn 17th century fire starting methods

Visit Wye Marsh, featuring:

  • Explore the Sugar Bush

  • Visit the Sugar Shack to see how sap is turned into syrup

  • Roast bannock over the fire

  • Enjoy maple taffy on snow

  • Syrup tasting challenge

  • Kids zone - animal pelts, scat, nests and tracks

  • Make a paper Mokuk

  • Listen to Indigenous stories

  • Check out swan landing

  • Visit the Birds of Prey Field

  • Explore the forested trails

  • and More!

Early Bird Tickets: Save $6 per ticket by purchasing between February 16th and March 18th at 4pm

  • $16 per Adult

  • $12.50 per Student and Senior

  • Children three and under are free

Regular Tickets: Available March 18th

  • $22 per Adult

  • $18.50 per Student and Senior

  • Children three and under are free

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