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Activities for the whole family
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Activities for the whole family
During your visit, you will also be able to attend activities alongside animators dressed in period costumes and learn more about rural traditions and gestures between 1900 and 1950.
Activities are presented on weekends, during school holidays, and on public holidays from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm and from 1:15 pm to 5:00 pm.
During the green period, from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm, and during the orange period, from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm.
Le Vieux Mas reserves the right to modify or cancel a show or activity.
Starting up the threshing machine
The threshing was one of the first agricultural operations to be mechanised in the campaigns In the 19th century, when the threshing machine replaced the flails for threshing wheat, it was the beginning of modernism in the countryside.
Most of them were powered by a steam engine or horse-drawn carriage.
You will be able to watch the threshing of real sheaves of wheat and thus gain a better understanding of how it worked at the time.
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15 min
Indoors
Starting the Vierzon tractor with a blowtorch
The tractor has developed in France with the motorization of ls agriculture after the First World War, Cranking a tractor engine is not easy.
Yet it is a mechanism that has changed the lives of farmers.
Here no key or crank but a hot ball tractor that starts with fire! and maybe you will have the chance to ride in a cart like before !
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20 min
Outdoor
milking the cows!
Become a real farmer and try your hand at milking with our 2 milking cows ANNABELLE (the black Holstein), and MARGUERITE (the brown Montbéliarde).
Of course you don't run any risk, but they are just as beautiful as the real ones that you can see in the cowshed or in the meadow!
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Continuously
Outdoor
Feeding the animals
In the 18th century, animals played an essential role in farm life, both large and small. Cows and goats provided milk, chickens offered eggs and meat, while horses and oxen took part in farm work or pulled carts to town, long before the arrival of tractors and other motorised machines.
Sheep were prized for their wool, ideal for protecting against the cold in winter.
Today you have the opportunity to get up close and personal with these animals. In the company of the farmers, you will learn more about each of them.
You can even take part in feeding the goats and chickens - who will come and eat directly from your hand - and take the time to cuddle them!
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20 min
Outdoor
The little carousel
Who doesn't have childhood memories of funfairs with all the games of skill, the colourful sweets and the rides where children loved to spin around.
In the old farmhouse, our mini carousel will make your children twirl to the sound of old-time music.
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Continuously
Outdoor
Ride on a small train
On Wednesdays, holidays and public holidays, take a tour of the park in a small train.
He will lead you through the vineyards and meet the four-horned sheep, donkeys, and you will learn a little more about the history of his creation...
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10 min
Outdoor
Crossbow shooting
Become real crossbowmen with crossbow shooting
Will you hit the target?
For young and old
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10 min
Outdoor
