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The fourth annual Indiana Dunes Apple Festival takes place at Indiana Dunes National Park’s historic Chellberg Farm on Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22, 2019, from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm.
This family-friendly event features seasonal activities such as free, tractor-pulled hayrides, a Kid’s Corner with games and crafts, and even apple-chucking catapults. You can help make cider using an apple press, learn how to cook apples for applesauce and apple butter, ferment apples into vinegar, make apple pomanders and discover dozens of other uses for apples. Free tasting of most of these products will be available. Or, purchase apples, lunch or a snack from one of several food vendors and a farm stand market featuring local produce. Enjoy your treats while listening to local musicians on stage and the Northwest Indiana Storytellers.
Explore the historic farmhouse and then check out the farm’s resident cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and goats in the barn, chicken coop, and surrounding pastures. Even a pair of draft horses will be on site during the festival weekend. Kids can help feed the animals at 3:30 pm each day of the festival. Both the farm animals and the Apples Festival are made possible through the generous help of the Dunes Learning Center and the Friends of Indiana Dunes.
Chellberg Farm is located on Mineral Springs Road between U.S. Highway 20 and U.S. Highway 12 in Porter, Indiana. For more information on this or other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park, call 219-395-1882 or visit our website at www.nps.gov/indu and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/
The Indiana Dunes National Park is one of 419 units of the National Park System ranging from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty. Located in Northwest Indiana, the park includes 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and 15,000 acres of biodiverse beaches, woods, prairies, and marshes. Up to 3 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.
Dunes Learning Center is nonprofit education organization working in partnership with the National Park Service to provide year-round curriculum and standards-based education experiences to learners of all ages. Dunes Learning Center educators use nature as a classroom and catalyst, bringing lessons to life while encouraging critical thinking, problem solving and creativity through hands-on learning. Visit duneslearningcenter.org
The Friends of Indiana Dunes is a non-profit established in 1982 that supports both the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes State Park. This support helps both parks carry out their resource management projects and present interpretive programs to the public. For more information, go to friendofindianadunes.org.
Last updated: September 6, 2019