The East Fork Gallery is hosting its annual Scare Crow Festival at Heritage Park on Saurday.
East Fork Gallery’s Annual Scarecrow Festival, held for over 35 years in the Carson Valley, will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday as part of Main Street Gardnerville’s Fall Fest in Heritage Park.
“The Scarecrow Festival is a favorite Carson Valley event, often attended by repeat customers and multiple generations, regularly attracting adults, who participated as children, bringing their children and grandchildren,” organizers said. “Regardless of one’s traditions, it is a most enjoyable event.”
The artists at the East Fork Gallery, now celebrating their 44th year in Gardnerville, collect used clothing and create kits for participants to purchase, where they create full-sized scarecrows that are displayed in front of homes and businesses across the valley in the autumn.
The newspaper stuffing for the scarecrows is provided, in part, by The Record-Courier.
East Fork Gallery artists will be there to help participants build their scarecrows.
Ready-made scarecrows will be available for purchase.
New this year are “Do-it-yourself” Scarecrow kits, available at the gallery, the day of the Fall Fest in Heritage Park, and afterward at the gallery through the month of October.
