Sheep Shearing Day at Forest Home Farms

Forest Home Farms Historic Park in San Ramon is holding Sheep Shearing Day on Saturday, April 25, with live shearing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (sanramon.ca.gov) The City of San Ramon says the event will include sheep dog demonstrations, a tractor museum, music, food and crafts at the historic farm site at 19953 San Ramon Valley Boulevard. (sanramon.ca.gov) Forest Home Farms is also promoting hands-on stations and children’s activities as part of the program, with the event listed on the city’s calendar as “Sheep Shearing” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 25. (sanramon.ca.gov) The shearing itself is the farm version of an annual haircut: wool is clipped off sheep so they stay cooler and cleaner as temperatures rise. The city’s notice frames the day as a public look at that seasonal farm job, staged at a park built to interpret San Ramon Valley agriculture. (sanramon.ca.gov) That setting is the point of the event. Forest Home Farms says it preserves and exhibits the agricultural history of the San Ramon Valley and uses programs like this one to connect present-day visitors with older farm work. (sanramon.ca.gov) The park is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and its regular offerings already include the Tractor Museum and self-guided exhibits across the grounds. Sheep Shearing Day folds those standing displays into a single Saturday program with added demonstrations and vendors. (sanramon.ca.gov) San Ramon’s Parks and Community Services listings show Sheep Shearing Day alongside other spring events, including Arbor Day on April 18 and a Derby Spring Fashion Show and Tea on May 2. The April 25 event sits in the middle of that seasonal lineup as one of the farm’s public-history weekends. (sanramon.ca.gov)