"Knit-Out" at the
Canada Agriculture Museum in August

OTTAWA, July 20, 2006
For immediate release

August highlights at the Canada Agriculture Museum include a Knit-Out event, Sunday, August 6, a variety of informative Daily Demonstrations, featured throughout the month for children and adults of all ages. The popular year-round Birthday Party program for children 3 to 12 continues in August. Also, visitors will have the chance to ride on the Tally- Ho Wagon pulled by Clydesdales or Belgians, weather permitting. Visitors can explore the sights, sounds and smells of the animal barns, a demonstration farm in action, as well as informative exhibitions.

Among the many daily demonstrations, visitors can have a "tasteful" experience with cheese making and tasting, discover farm animals that are cousins, learn all about the fruits of our labour in the demonstration garden and watch a milking machine in action. Museum-goers can discover the exhibition The Farm: Plugged-In and discover the impact electricity had on farmers' routine household chores, from the turn of the last century to today, in this exhibition tracing the period of rural electrification in Canada. In Tractors, visitors can follow the 100-year-old story of the farm tractor from unfamiliar oddity to commonplace tool on the Canadian farm.

Knit-Out Event - August 6
Amateur and expert knitters are welcome to sit and knit outdoors in the Museum's Memory Park, rain or shine, on Sunday, August 6 from noon to 4:30. Participants can learn how to make cables, ask the Stitch Doctor questions about patterns, take knitting lessons, obtain free knitting starter kits and lessons, and much more! Free admission for knitters. Participants should bring their own chair. For more information, please contact Wendy, Ottawa Knitting Guild, at wendyjs@magma.ca.

Guided Tours
Guided Tours of our Animal Barns are available year-round and must be arranged in advance at 613 991-3053.

Daily Demonstrations in August
Every day, visitors can learn more about Canadian agriculture and about the food and fibres that make our way of life possible.

10:00	"Cooking" for Cows - Dairy Barn
10:30	How Do You Measure Up Against Horses? - Horse and cattle Barn
11:00	Cheese Making and Tasting - Demonstration Kitchen (Exhibitions)
11:45	The Fruits of Our Labour - Demonstration Garden
12:15	How well Do You Know Your Poultry? - Small Animal Barn
1:15	Cow Washing or Care - Dairy Barn
1:45	Ice Cream Making and Tasting - Memory Park
2:30	Sheep and Goats: Discover These Close Cousins - Sheep Field
3:00	The Beck Circus: Electricity's Early Years in Ontario - Exhibitions Area
3:45	Afternoon Milking - Dairy Barn

Open House on the Central Experimental Farm - September 9
The Central Experimental Farm is hosting an open house on Saturday, September 9, 2006 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Featured throughout the day are fun science displays, interactive games, tea with the Friends of the Farm in the Dominium Arbouretum, 4-H Club doing crafts with the children as well as free admission and parking at the Canada Agriculture Museum. Also, visitors can come and examine the contents of a time capsule before it's locked and sealed for the next twenty years and learn how to create their own wildlife backyard by visiting the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. The main exhibit tent is located beside the parking lot of the Canada Agriculture Museum, south of the traffic circle.
For more information, please call 613 759-1000 or visit www.agr.gc.ca.

Also...

• On weekends, visitors can help one of our friendly Interpreters make pasta, in the Demonstration Kitchen, at 11:30 and 3:15.
• Children's Activity Centre located on the Exhibitions level (for children 6 years old and younger).
• Tally-Ho Horse-Drawn wagon rides, ($), weather permitting.
• New! Outdoor playground for younger kids.