Sheep Shearing Day at Forest Home Farms

San Ramon’s Forest Home Farms will hold Sheep Shearing Day on Saturday, April 25, with live shearing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (sanramon.ca.gov) The city’s April 17 update says the event is open to all ages at Forest Home Farms, 19953 San Ramon Valley Blvd. (sanramon.ca.gov 1) (sanramon.ca.gov 2) Visitors can watch the sheep get their annual “hair cut,” and the city says the program also includes sheep dog demonstrations, music, food, crafts, and access to the tractor museum. (sanramon.ca.gov 1) (sanramon.ca.gov 2) Forest Home Farms is the city’s historic park focused on the agricultural history of the San Ramon Valley. The site says it preserves and interprets that history through exhibits and educational programs. (sanramon.ca.gov) That makes the shearing day more than a spring festival on the calendar. It is one of the farm’s public programs that turns routine livestock care into a live demonstration of how working farms operated in the valley. (sanramon.ca.gov) (sanramon.ca.gov) The event is listed on the city’s Parks and Community Services calendar alongside other seasonal programs at the farm, including Compost Day on April 11 and Arbor Day on April 18. (sanramon.ca.gov) Forest Home Farms itself is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with exhibits that include the tractor museum and a railroad depot display. (sanramon.ca.gov) For families planning next weekend, the city is treating April 25 as a hands-on farm day: sheep in the shearing pen, dogs at work, and the historic grounds open in San Ramon. (sanramon.ca.gov)