On Saturday 9/06, the E.G. Smith Barn will host a Barn Cabling and Straightening workshop lead by Steve Stier. Steve Stier is a well known Preservation Consultant, Barn Historian, and has a Masters Degree in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University.

The workshop is free for MBPN members. Fee for non-members is $30 per person and $40 per family and includes a 2008/2009 MBPN membership. Pre-registration is required.

Please bring a lunch, drinks will be provided.

Contact Rob Foti at 517-304-4368 for registration and directions.

Join us for a variety of family friendly events : Antique tractors, horse drawn hay rides, rope making, milling demonstrations, quilting, kids crafts, hay cart hands-on demo, 4-H animals, tours of the Ellis Barn and a barn dance.

1. Historic White Pine Village - view the restored Jorrison Dairy Barn complete with hand tool display and old farm equipment.
2. Conrad Road barn visits - there are seven featured barns - a rebuilt barn after a 1939 fire, a barn that sits on the property of the former County Poor Farm, Cherry Hill Farm which is still has a working barn with a cattle herd and will have a horse drawn wagon for visitors to ride in and enjoy the farm scenery, a barn that was built from reclaimed ship lumber and is home of the Amber Elk Ranch and of course has an elk to see, a "re-purposed" barn that now serves as a sign painting business and the Conrad barn which the road is named after.
3. Travel on to Scottville for the last Farmers Market of the season (I am sure they will have pumpkins galore!)
4. The Old Engine Club will have their final antique tractor pull at their show grounds just outside of Scottville.