Billings Farm

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Weekend
2024-01-13 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Billings Farm and Museum, 69 Old River Rd, Woodstock, VT, 05091, United States
Billings Farm & Museum is open Jan. 13-15, 10am-4pm, for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekend. Visitors of all ages can enjoy engaging activities indoors and out during the long weekend.
The Woodstock Vermont Film Series will feature Joan Baez | I Am a Noise. At the end of a 60-year musical career, Baez, the legendary folk singer and activist, takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life, and the personal struggles she’s kept private. The film will be shown on Saturday and Sunday at 3PM in the Visitor Center Theater. (Film Series tickets are purchased separately.)
Follow the StoryWalk along the pasture fence, take a step back in history with a self-guided tour of the 1890 Farm Manager’s House.
Horse-drawn Sleigh Rides will be offered on Monday, January 15, from 11:00AM to 3:00PM, conditions permitting. Rides are $5/person for ages 2 and up in addition to admission to Billings Farm & Museum. Rides are approximately 10 minutes. Tickets can be purchased at the Admissions Desk.
Meet the Farm’s animals including Jersey cows, sheep, chickens and goats all cozy in the Animal Barns. There will be daily milking starting at 3:00pm in the Cow Barn.
Explore the Billings Farm Trail on snowshoes or cross-country skis and venture through the picturesque snow-covered farm fields and along the Ottauquechee River. Bring your own or rent from the nearby Woodstock Inn & Resort Nordic Center. Bring your sled to speed down the small hill next to the orchard. Gather round the fire pit and warm up with hot chocolate, coffee and s’mores, available for purchase in our Gift Shop.

Today's Schedule
2024-01-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-14 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-15 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-20 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-21 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-27 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-03 10:00 - 16:00

Woodstock VT Film Series: Joan Baez I Am a Noise
2024-01-13 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-01-14 15:00 - 16:30
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
2023. Directed by Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor, and Maeve O’Boyle. 113 minutes. Not rated.
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
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Facing the end of a 60-year musical career, legendary folk singer/activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large history-making life and reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private until now. Baez bids farewell to performing, and takes stock of her life in this unusually intimate and honest film.
Drawing from Baez’s extraordinary archive, filmmakers Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle construct a deeply honest portrait of the living legend who was the voice of her generation, reflecting on her life on and off the stage, personal emotional struggles, and family secrets—revealing for the first time the full truth of her life.

Anyone with an interest in the key artists of the counterculture movement will find much to appreciate here.” ~ Hollywood Reporter

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Closed
2024-01-16, 2024-01-17, 2024-01-19, 2024-01-22, 2024-01-23, 2024-01-24, 2024-01-25, 2024-01-26 and 5 more dates

Homeschool Club: Sheep and Wool
2024-01-18 10:00 - 11:30
January 18, 2024
10:00AM-11:30AM
Ages 7-11
$20/student, $15/member student

Sheep and Wool

Meet and learn about one of the sheep from our herd. Explore the different ways that we can make her wool into yarn and fabric. This session will include a hands-on component where students will make a wool craft to take home!

Snowdance Film Soiree
2024-01-20 17:30 - 20:00
THE SNOWDANCE FILM SOIREE HAS BEEN POSTPONED
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Woodstock VT Film Series: All That Breathes
2024-01-27 15:00 - 16:30, 2024-01-28 15:00 - 16:30
All that Breathes
2022. Directed by Shaunak Sen. 97 minutes. Not rated.
Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film
In Hindi with subtitles
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
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In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird — the black kite. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.

Simple in its slow, calm storytelling, but profound in the philosophical points it raised about how we are all connected in the vast ecosystem.” ~ Times of London

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Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film

RESCHEDULED: Basics of Home Butchering
2024-02-03 10:00 - 11:30
NOTE: Due to illness, this workshop will be rescheduled to March 2.
Price: $15/person, $10/Billings Farm member
Presenter: Josh Coyle
For Ages: 16+
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Ready to up your game in the kitchen? In the next Billings Backyard Workshop, the Village Butcher’s Josh Coyle will bring decades of expertise to the table and share insights into the art of home butchering and sausage making. This workshop will feature hands-on demonstrations, allowing participants to explore the fundamentals of creating delicious sausages at home as well as sourcing top-quality meats and maintaining sharp and ready equipment and knives. From quartering a chicken to spatchcocking, participants will discover techniques for poultry and carving cuts like rib roast, beef tenderloin, briskets, and turkey.
The session will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
Cancellation Policy: There are often waitlists for our courses, so please let us know in advance if you are unable to attend. Refunds are available up to 7 days before the class is held. There are no refunds within 7 days.
Contact info@billingsfarm.org with questions.

Woodstock VT Film Series: Joonam
2024-02-03 15:00 - 17:00
Joonam
2023. Directed by Sierra Urich. 100 minutes. Not rated.
Q&A with filmmaker Sierra Urich following the Saturday screening
In English and Farsi with subtitles
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
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Filmmaker Sierra Urich grew up in rural Vermont, a place and an upbringing far removed from Iran, the homeland of her mother, Mitra, and grandmother, Behjat. Only knowing Iran through family stories, food, and holidays, and with the prospect of travel to the country a seemingly impossible dream, she embarks on a personal quest to make sense of her fractured Iranian identity. Navigating barriers of language and culture (not to mention the complications of geopolitical conflict and displacement), Sierra turns to Mitra and Behjat to construct a deeply moving and sometimes disarmingly funny portrait of three generations of women and their complex relationship to an Iran of the past.
Named for a Farsi term of endearment, Joonam is infused with humor and heart like only a film about family could be. Interrogating family history and memory, including her grandmother’s experiences as a preteen bride and her mother’s rebellious teenage years during the Iranian Revolution, Sierra Urich constructs a rich, personal film that poignantly reflects the experiences of the Iranian diasporic community and speaks to anyone affected by the dislocation that accompanies immigration.

A heartfelt exploration of those living within a diaspora, the fractured connection each generation has to their own culture, and the irrevocable bond of shared roots.” ~ RogerEbert.com
