Proceeds will go to the Learning Center, which has a mission of building an awareness of how farmers manage land and animals to produce food and other agricultural products that sustain and enhance human life. Flowers said learning stations will be set up during the Gathering to show products that come from corn, cotton, soybeans and animal by-products. Visitors will also find out how to shear sheep, spin wool, milk a cow, churn butter, mend horseshoes and make soap and candles. Women and children will be given time to try plowing behind a mule or draft horse. Multiple hitches of 8 and 12 horses and mules will give plowing demonstrations.
Visitors can build a corn shock, stack hay or pick cotton by hand.
A place to sit and listen to entertainment will also be provided. WBAW radio will sponsor an appearance on Friday by Ludlow Porch, Flowers added. He will broadcast his syndicated radio show live from the AHC Museum. The Calvary Mennonite School will provide a lunch stand along with homemade bread and baked goods. Members of the S.C. Draft Horse Association, the Country Boy Plow Club and the N.C. Draft Horse and Mule Association will participate in the event.