The 2020 Buttonwood Farm Sunflower Festival will be held July 25 - August 2, 2020. Keeping reading for full details. Buttonwood Farm in Griswold, Connecticut is the place to go when you want awesome homemade ice cream and you want to bask in the glow of a 14 acres of sunflowers. Buttonwood Farm was named by Foursquare as one of the best places in to get ice cream in ... Read more...
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Connecticut Corn Maze Adventures
It's Corn Maze season, when the corn is high and farmers make all kinds of cool designs and mazes for your enjoying pleasure. It is also a great way for farmers to earn a little extra money with their crops. Most Connecticut corn mazes open around September 1st and close in October or early November, depending on the weather. Kids and adults alike enjoy running through a ... Read more...
Fall County Fairs and Festivals in Connecticut
September is the start of Fall Festival season in Connecticut. Connecticut offers some of the best fall agricultural fairs and festivals in New England. Think sweet stickiness of a caramel apple, the smell of fried dough, the sounds of kids screeching on the rides, bands playing, Midway games, cows and sheep, horse and tractor pulls, and Kettle corn! The largest fair in New ... Read more...
Spend the Day at Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport Connecticut
The Connecticut Beardsley Zoo is a tiny zoo with a lot to do and it is the only zoo in Connecticut. The zoo is also open all year long so you can visit animals in warm or cold months and see how they live in different climates. Young children especially will be thrilled with the zoo as we saw that on our recent visit. Lots of squeals and giggles could be heard throughout the ... Read more...
Beardsley Zoo Makes Love Match with Two New Family Members
Hope and Love Spring Eternal with two new residents at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. Love is in the air for two of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo’s resident bachelors: Jabba the Sloth, and Rochan the Red panda. The Zoo is now the new home for Hope, a sloth that once made her home in Connecticut before transferring temporarily to John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Meri, a ... Read more...
