An old-time harvest event doesn’t necessarily happen every year at the Hochstetler farm, but it does when a need arises. For a harvest event this past Saturday, family members and friends mobilized to organize a breakfast fundraiser, convene the necessary people and equipment to do the threshing, and get the word out. Several hundred people from the nearby community turned out to eat a home-cooked breakfast of eggs, pancakes, homemade sausage, biscuits and gravy, and fresh doughnuts, and to watch as volunteers operated a variety of antique equipment.

An event in Centreville will feature a home-cooked breakfast, live demonstrations of antique farm and sawmill equipment, and wagon rides this weekend. The Old-Fashioned Fall Harvest event will take place Friday evening and for the entire day Saturday on the farm of Melvin and Orpha Hochstetler. It will serve as a medical benefit fundraiser for Mr. Hochstetler.