All kinds of rare and unusual tools are featured at this show and the public is invited to bring unidentified tools for identification by these avid tool collectors. The other large history show at Garfield, the annual Harvest Days Celebration on October 1 and 8, is designed to educate the public about early Illinois settlement life. This celebration features continuous demonstrations of mid nineteenth century household and farm skills. Come experience everything from cider pressing to corn shelling. Previous Harvest Days featured re-enactors portraying 1840s dragoons, Woodland Indians, surveyors, salesmen and many other impressions.
Music plays a large role in Garfield programs, as it did for early settlers.
The Warrenville Folk Music Society appears regularly at the farm and will present a dulcimer workshop in April and a summer barn dance series. Chicagoland boasts a large number of woodworkers eager to learn early hand woodworking skills. Four woodworking workshops are scheduled to meet this demand. These include a rake making workshop, a coffin building class, a shaving horse workshop and a ladder back chair workshop. Guided tours are offered year round by appointment or stop by for a tour Wednesdays and Sundays from 1 pm to 4 pm June through September.