Today is the day! We are looking forward to harvesting the sorghum and boiling it down to make molasses. Wear your work boots and jeans because you have the chance to get in the fields with the Mahaffie staff and volunteers during this event. Help cut stalks of sorghum, feed the stalks through a press to make sap, and haul the sap to the outdoor fire to be boiled into molasses. Maybe you can sweet-talk the cook into giving you a taste of the finished product. Yum!

While you're on the farm, take a tour of the historic home, see Mrs. Mahaffie's cookstove in action, ride the stagecoach, meet the farm animals, and learn a bit about blacksmithing, too.

We're open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for kids ages 5 to 11 and free for kids ages 4 & under. Olathe residents receive $2 off admission. Mahaffie members are free.

Schedule of Events and Activities: 

• 10: 30, 12:30 - Phrenology
• 11:00, 1:00- Sorghum pressing
• 11:30, 1:30  - Gun talk
• Noon: Chuckwagon Samples
• 2:30 - Vintage Baseball

Throughout the Day:

• Meet Olathe author, Trae Q. Venerable. Trae will have books available for purchase. Please visit his website to learn more: https://www.traevenerable.com/
• Make a wooden wagon, $5 per wagon
• Make a cup and ball, $4
• Make an S hook in the blacksmith shop, $4 per hook, ages 8 & up
• Add your stitches to a quilt
• Shell corn
• Make an 1860s style kite, $4 per kite
• Learn to play the card game Faro

View the Facebook Event here

Learn about Fall Scout Day, also happening October 9!