Annual Avondale Harvest Festival
21 November 2010

This major community event is held in November each year and is aimed at giving the visitors an opportunity to see some harvesting in action, experience rural activities and feel part of the Beverley agricultural community. It is a chance to marvel at the magnitude of the wheat harvest in Western Australia and enjoy some country hospitality.
The Avondale Harvest Festival is a smoke-free event.

Experience life on a real working farm and enjoy:
Free Farm Tours
Vintage Tractor Parade
Working Steam and stationary engines
Vintage cars and caravans

Attractions on the day include:
Working Clydesdales
Music from the Australian Swiss Carnival band "Gugge Burras"
Sheep shearing demonstrations
History of harvest field displays
Working sheep dogs
Animal nursery
Blacksmith, farrier, spinning and woodturning demonstrations
Art and craft stalls
Food and drink available
Pony rides and wagon rides
Pizza making .... and much more!

2009 Harvest Festival sponsors included:

CBH Grain Pool

www.actbelongcommit.org.au and www.healthway.wa.gov.au

Water Corporation

Colin King Real Estate, Beverley IGA, Heng Ee, York Pizza

e-mail:dina.blennard@ntwa.com.au
or phone (08) 9646 1004

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photograph: Sue Manning

Held in June each year, this is a day of nostalgia. Clydesdale horses and vintage tractors are in the field with tillage implements of the past. See the earth being turned by a four run mouldboard or a seven disc plough being pulled by a pair, or team, of Clydesdales. You be the judge of a straight furrow of the correct depth! Interact with the Clydesdales and their handlers. Talk with the 'old-timers' about farming in times gone by.

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