Family day or season passes are available. Among the guests at the farm for the day are members of Great Basin Antique Machines, Bowen said. Members will be at the farm with several small engines and possibly an antique tractor. Another guest is Ted Harrison from the Utah Bonneville Forge Council. He will make a Bowie knife as farm visitors look on.
Sheep shearing is the headline event for the day, along with wool washing, carding and spinning.
Members of the Northern Utah Fiber Artists provide the expertise, and member Bob King does the shearing honors. Three types of shears will be used during the demonstrations, including electric shears, hand shears and an early example of gasoline-powered shears. Wool was very much in demand in 1917, the year recreated by the Jensen Farm, said Bowen. Wool was needed for the war effort. Uniforms were wool, but smaller items like socks, gloves, mittens and hats were also made from the natural fiber and many women got behind the war effort with their knitting needles.