Johnson's has 8 acres of apple trees and 25 acres of pumpkin patches. The dates listed are for the end of the most active part of the harvest. Often, the crops can be found later, but frost is usually on the ground by the middle of October, signaling the end of the season. Even though the weather has been warm for fall -- the temperatures were in the 80s over the weekend -- people have been thinking about apples and pumpkins, said Pete Johnson, whose family owns the farm. At Johnson's...

Youngsters, he said, typically enjoy the farm activities, including rides in wagons pulled by horses or antique John Deere tractors. The show of crafts features about 100 artists who demonstrated their skills to a panel of judges before being accepted, he said. We have an area just for kids that includes a straw-bale maze, where parents can watch their kids. Today, it features square-dancing tractors, a timber show and a horse-mounted drill team. The farm has hosted other events tied to...

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Building and repairing machinery comes naturally to me from my farming days, but it still took lots of test fitting to get the parts to work. I bought the refurbished tractor from an antiques dealer for $1100. So, I bought a small stick welder at a hardware store and drove my pickup to a scrap-metal dealer to buy the materials. The loader has a self-leveling bucket with its swing dampened by an automobile shock absorber. This project-stocked read takes play time indoors and out, for young...

On the form, it asks for the "current year harvested or to be harvested acres for land. Tax assessor Walter Kosul said determining the market value and tax bill for the 7.24 acres of farmland isn't as simple as applying the residential tax rate. Find www.app.com stories from the past week as well as calendar events, classifieds, advertisements, Yellow Page listings, local Web sites and more all in one search. But Hochberg said the farm's income is higher than that, and he only shows $510...

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For tractor enthusiasts, there s also a tractor parade scheduled at 3 p. Folks come to the annual old-time heritage event to show others how life was lived in the not-so-good old days when people in the Appalachian hills and valleys lived a self-sufficient and simpler, but often difficult, way of life. Four stages hold the hundreds of musicians and singers who entertain through homecoming with mountain and country music, bluegrass tunes and folk songs. Now, at the festival, pioneer skills...

Getting there is like being part of a convoy of tractor-trailers. Truck traffic can be heavy on interstates 80 and 84, but unwrap the ribbons of pale expressway that surround the city, and downtown Scranton is utterly navigable. With the show now in its fourth season, the writers are much more conscious of mining the former anthracite capital of the world for nuggets of lore and local flavor. With a population of just 76,415, it has the feel of a big neighborhood rather than a city, with...

The vast majority of the items scattered around the half acre site are antique, reclaimed or recycled. Or pick up an old, rusted farm tool, such as a hand pump, for a unique piece of garden sculpture. In May, the couple decided to add an antique and vintage accessories store housed in the two 1940s-era structures on the property. Other items use reclaimed materials, reinvented into garden art that runs the gamut from striking to whimsical to wacky. Your garden may elicit praise or...