Heritage Farm Ice Cream Festival

Heritage Farm will celebrate summer and Independence Day on Saturday, July 5, 2025 from 10 am to 5 pm.

“With the Summer Ice Cream Festival falling on July 5 this year, we thought it’d be fun to celebrate two things that make you think summer- ice cream and Fourth of July festivities,” says Audy Perry, Executive Director of Heritage Farm. “As you enjoy homemade ice cream, you’ll be able to see a 10-foot tall Uncle Sam on stilts, check out a cannon firing, and get to see a portion of Patrick Henry’s famous ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’ speech. Plus, animals eating watermelon!”

Other special activities for the festival include sawmill demonstrations at 1 and 3, one-room school house tours from 1 to 5, and glass blowing, candle making, campfire cooking, and bread over operation throughout the day.

One of the newest additions to Heritage Farm is making its Festival debut: the Science Zone, located in the cabin between the Discovery Zone playground and the MakerSpace crafting area. Guests can try their hand at different science experiments as well as handheld devices that display a science or physics principle, like Newton’s Cradle. Perry described it this way: “Starting at the Discovery Zone, people can now check out the Six Simple Machines there, then try experiments at the Science Zone, and have MakerSpace with its creative opportunities at the end of that walking path. From one end to the other, you can see how the world around us works.”