The annual show, held at 8105 Springhill Road in Erie, is always free, family friendly, and offers visitors a unique way to experience the past and the old-fashioned agricultural ways.
Brothers Kevin and Chuck Bos and their team of family and friends alternate the working farm shows each year between a Summer Threshing Bee and a Fall Harvest Show. This year, they’ll be harvesting corn and soybeans on their acreage, just as the fall season starts. It starts on Friday, September 20 and goes through the weekend.
Guests are invited to take a step back in time and watch as farmers harvest the crops, plow the stalks and stubble, shell the corn, mill the corn meal, and bake corn bread in the cookshack.
There will also be other demonstrations around the farm, such as a working sawmill, rock crushing, wood working, and blacksmithing. In the barn there will be pottery throwing, rug weaving on looms, wood turning, rope making, basket weaving, quilting and more.
Blacksmith Daryl Drennen of Prophetstown at last year’s Threshing Bee.
Many other trades and demonstrations, such as honeybees hives and maple syruping, will give visitors an up-close look at traditional skills and techniques.
There will also be live music from Rusty Strings on Friday and Saturday from 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m. All are welcome to a Sunday church service at 9:30 a.m.
“Our passion for farming and everything old has given us the desire to share with others how farming was done years ago, before all of the technology we have today. We want to teach people the ways our parents and grandparents survived; by living off the land,” the website says of the brothers’ inspiration.
Golf carts, people-movers, and a “Twinkie Train” will transport guests around the showgrounds or fields so they can see all there is to offer. Food, drinks, vendors, and modern restrooms are on-site.
Show hours are 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Sunday. Check out Bos Bros Historical Farm on Facebook, or visit their website bosbroshistoricalfarm.com for more information.
Save the dates for the summer Threshing Show, which will be July 25-27, 2025.
