SPECIAL EVENTS

Washington-on-the-Brazos presents Food and Flowers: A Day in the Garden at Barrington Living History Farm.

It's springtime in Texas and the gardens are growing at Barrington Living History Farm. Saturday and Sunday, May 29-30, anyone and everyone can come for a day in the garden. Learn about the foods pioneers grew to feed their families in the Brazos Valley in the 1850s. See the heirloom varieties Republic of Texas President Anson Jones may well have been growing on his farm. This is definitely a hands-on-event and a chance to let kids young and old dig in the dirt.

You can help pick vegetables to be cooked over the hearth, make a sachet to sweeten up a drawer or closet and even take home a garden in a bag and watch your own flowers and vegetables bloom. You can also enjoy demonstrations of seed-saving, hearth cooking and making herb vinegars in the kitchen.

Barrington Living History Farm, home of Dr. Anson Jones, last president of the Republic of Texas, is located at Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site off Highway 105 on FM 1155 between Navasota and Brenham. Hours are Saturday and Sunday, May 29-30, from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Farm admission fees are adults-- $5; students-- $3; with children 6 and under admitted free. State Park pass holders are admitted free as well.

For additional details call (936) 878-2214 ext 246, and ask for Kellie or visit www.birthplaceoftexas.com.

Brenham/Washington County is located halfway between Houston and Austin. Home of Blue Bell ice cream, Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site - "The Birthplace of Texas," more than 40 bed and breakfast inns, wineries, Brenham's Main Street District and more.