Old Fashioned Threshing Bee this weekend

Pleasant Prairie Farm/Foster Timmons Farms will host the 16th annual Old-Fashioned Threshing Bee this Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26. At the bee, volunteers and steam engine enthusiasts will harvest oats as the job was done until the 1940s. The volunteers will pitch oat bundles into the threshing machine by hand. The thresher separates the grain from the straw and chaff, and then augers…

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