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Welcome to AVA’s monthly calendar of events. Take a peek and plan your stay-cation or your next visit to our region. The city’s most notable annual events include historic home tours, outdoor summer concerts and movies under the stars, and the Northwest Art and Air Festival.
*Note for event organizers: If you’d like to have your event listed on the AVA calendar, head over to our contact page and submit your event to us.
At this indoor event, Iron Water Ranch invites the community into their barns to meet their lambs!
There will be educational displays, knowledgeable staff, and tons of baby lambs on hand.
Reservations REQUIRED for one-hour sessions, $20 per person. For information and reservations visit: Lambentine.
At this indoor event, Iron Water Ranch invites the community into their barns to meet their lambs!
There will be educational displays, knowledgeable staff, and tons of baby lambs on hand.
Reservations REQUIRED for one-hour sessions, $20 per person. For information and reservations visit: Lambentine.
Join Iron Water Ranch for a fibery fun day with lambs to pet, fleeces to touch, and classes to take!
There will be a whole variety of raw fleeces available, natural and dyed yarns, washed locks, dryer balls, and fiber arts equipment and supplies!
2 Classes Available: Shepherding 101 for newer shepherds is from 12 pm to 2 pm, and a beginning Crochet Class from 1 pm – 3 pm. To purchase tickets for these classes and for additional information visit Iron Water Ranch.
You’ll have a wooly good time!
SAVE the DATE for this fun family event with a parade, live music, exhibits, quilt show, car show, and sheepdog trials and more!
The Fat Lamb Fiber Fest is part of the Lamb & Wool Fair activities.
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
SAVE the DATE for this fun family event with a parade, live music, exhibits, quilt show, car show, and sheepdog trials and more!
The Fat Lamb Fiber Fest is part of the Lamb & Wool Fair activities.
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
SAVE the DATE for this fun family event with a parade, live music, exhibits, quilt show, car show, and sheepdog trials and more!
The Fat Lamb Fiber Fest is part of the Lamb & Wool Fair activities.
May 17, 18, 19, 2024
What: Get Outdoors Day/Un Día en el Bosque
Free family fun in the forest. Dozens of activities to help get families excited about the outdoors.
When: June 1, 2024, 10 am to 3 pm
Where: Peavy Arboretum, Corvallis, OR
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This is the 8th year Kenagy Family Farm has hosted this community yard sale to benefit Jackson Street Youth Services.
Jackson Street Youth Services supports at-risk and homeless youth. You can read more about them here.
If you would like to contribute to the sale you can drop things off on Wednesday, June 26th from 8 AM to 6 PM and Thursday, June 27th; from 8 AM to 12 PM.
Please bring clean, gently used items only.
NOT ACCEPTED: adult clothes, VHS, Cassettes, 3-ring binders, couches, or mattresses.
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, call Tina Springer at 541.979.1490.
The 48th Annual Black Sheep Gathering, taking place Friday through Sunday, celebrates natural-colored animals and their fiber.
Don’t miss the most charming sheep in the barn and spectacular fiber entries. 📷 by Melinda Martin
