While the 52-room mansion, modeled after the White House and called Arbor Lodge, is a separate property, it is easily accessible from the farm. Eventually he founded Arbor Day, which was first celebrated on April 10, 1872, and continues to the present on the last Friday of April - this year the 25th. While Morton worked as editor of the local newspaper, his passion was to teach people about agriculture and forestry. Then they began populating the prairie with trees. He and his wife, Carrie, built a modest home that would grow as their success did. Sterling Morton, who would eventually become President Grover Cleveland’s secretary of agriculture, staked a claim in the essentially treeless Nebraska Territory in the mid 1800s. Today the 260-acre farm in the hills of the Missouri River Valley is a bustling hive of agricultural research and visitors coming to explore the forest. “Our vision is to be a leader in recognizing how trees are a solution to climate change,” said Doug Farrar, vice president of the farm.
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From the engineer who runs the heating system at the lodge to the tractor driver in the orchards and the guides who teach visitors about the trees, there is a sense that people really do - to borrow from Disney again - whistle while they work. There’s a cheerful, wholesome feeling around the farm that seems to begin with the employees. This is where the Arbor Day commemoration took root, and it’s also where those tiny trees in plastic tubes come from when people make donations to the cause of reforestation - the Arbor Day Foundation’s No.
The Taste of Nebraska City AppleJack Progressive Dinner is back! Sunday, September 24, starting at 4 p.m.It’s too bad the Disney parks have laid claim to the phrase “happiest place on Earth” because I would make the argument that the title rightfully belongs to Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Neb.
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Download the Rules sheet/ Registration form for the Taste of AppleJack ‘All Things Apple’ Contest. Sunday, September 24, is the Taste of AppleJack ‘All Things Apple’ Contest! The event will be at the Historic Barns at Arbor Day Farm from 11 a.m. Sweet Pickins Vendor Fair at Lourdes - Email to register Make a weekend out of it and book an overnight stay! River City Classic Car Club Car Show - details coming soon! Makin’ Memories Vendor Fair at Pumpkin Ridge - Call Don at 40 to register Vendor Fair at the Eagles - Text Cari at 40 to register
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Parade Registration Form for MARCHING BANDS ONLY on Saturday - WATCH IT LIVE ON FACEBOOK! - download parade registration form here Planning something fun? Download a Schedule of Events form HERE.ĪppleJack Fun Run - registration information TBAĮxtreme Bull Riding Tour - find details here See below for details on what’s happening in 2023!ĪppleJack Festival has been named as one of the top 10 Fall Harvest Festivals in America by the USA Today!īe a sponsor! Download a sponsorship form HERE. We invite you to come anytime this autumn for our 55th AppleJack Festival! It kicks off Friday, September 15, and lasts until the final apple is eaten. We are spreading the celebration out over two weekends during the harvest season, not just on one three-day stretch. Nebraska City’s historic AppleJack Festival annually draws between 60,000 and 80,000 people to Nebraska City to celebrate the apple harvest. Apple pie, apple cider, apple cider donuts, candy apples, caramel apples, apple fritters, apple salad…pretty much anything you can imagine made from apples is available at the AppleJack Festival.
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