Hallockville Museum Farm is issuing a call for entries for a Preserve, Produce and Honey Contest at its 45th Annual Country Fair on October 3 and 4.
The Country Fair planners also have something else up their sleeves — straw! — for a new scarecrow making contest to be held during the fair.
Food Contest Call for Entries
Local growers, cooks and beekeepers are invited to enter the contest to earn bragging rights and cash prizes for the first-place winner in each category. The contest categories are potatoes, squash (including pumpkins), preserves, and honey.
Entry forms may be submitted online and are due by Friday, September 25. Items to be entered into the contest must be dropped off at the Hudson-Sydlowski House at Hallockville Museum Farm on September 28 and 29 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Winners will be announced at the Country Fair. Details can be found at www.hallockville.org.
Scarecrow Making Contest Details
The Hallockville Country Fair is adding a Scarecrow Making Contest to its roster of family-friendly activities. Fairgoers are encouraged to get creative and build their most scary, festive, realistic or funky scarecrows. Stakes, straw and apparel will be provided – while supplies last.
Contestants are encouraged to bring their own scarecrow apparel and props so that they can bring a unique, prize-worthy flair to their creations.
The first-place winner will receive a cash prize. The scarecrow making contest will be open until 1 p.m. on Sunday, October 4. Winners will be announced at the fair at 2 p.m. Sunday. The scarecrows will remain on display at Hallockville Museum Farm through the end of October.
About the 45th Annual Hallockville Country Fair
The 45th Annual Hallockville Country Fair will be held on Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine, at Hallockville Museum Farm, 6038 Sound Avenue in Riverhead.
The Country Fair celebrates local history, culture and Long Island Island’s family farm heritage. Activities take place throughout the Hallockville Museum Farm and the adjacent Long Island Antique Power Authority grounds.
Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for children ages 5 to 12, and free for children age 4 and younger. Half price admission will be offered Sunday morning from 10 a.m. to Noon.
New attractions this year include:
· Presentations about local indigenous peoples by Tony Valderrama, a protégé of the late “Tee Pee Ted” Strickroth
· A scarecrow making contest
· Farm animal presentations by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County Farm
· A dress-up photo station featuring colonial costumes generously loaned to Hallockville by North Fork Community Theatre
· A chain saw sculpture demonstration by artist Gregg Klewicki
· Line dancing lessons with Terry Lou Barrett
The 2026 Hallockville Country Fair also will feature these popular activities:
· Historical tours and traditional skills demonstrations including colonial cooking over an open fire, broom making and traditional bread baking
· Folk arts demonstrations including basket weaving, spinning, weaving, quilting, needlework and wood carving
· Tractor pulls and parades; blacksmith, sawmill and antique machinery demonstrations; and a children’s train ride with the Long Island Antique Power Association
· Wagon rides
· Old-fashioned children’s activities including sack races, crafts; farm skills and more
· A marketplace of baked goods, crafts, and handmade wares
· Live music by the Old Time Jam Band and the Yazoo Brothers
· Food and beverage trucks
Tickets are available at the gate. Find Out More.
— Hallockville Museum Farm
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