Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum, Ingersoll, ON

My dear hubby and I recently visited the Ingersoll Cheese Museum in Ingersoll, ON. This was our first visit. It is easy to find. Admission is by donation. They do not have debit.

We started in the main building. The first display is carvings by world renowned woodcarver, Wilson Johnston. If you aren't interested in cheese you should still visit just to see the huge pioneer scene "Pathway of the Giants". It is 21 feet long, 4 feet deep and 5 feet high. You are not allowed to photograph it so you will just have to go see it.

This little museum had a good number of interesting historical displays.

We visited the replica 19th century cheese and butter making factory. The tour began with a 20 minute video. Usually I am not impressed with videos and skip them. I'm glad I did not skip this one. I learned a lot about cheesemaking including what rennet is. You don't really want to know what rennet is . . . ewwwwww!!

Hal had a great time playing with all the tools in the blacksmith shop. I'm sure he wasn't supposed to play with the tools but anyone who knows him also knows he can't resist.

The Ingersoll Cheese Museum is located at 290 Harris Street in Ingersoll, ON

For more information contact them at 519-485-5510, curator@ingersoll.ca or www.ingersoll.ca

Comments

A Taste of Canada ~ Fiddleheads

I do enjoy fiddleheads. They have a green bean-y, asparagus-like, pea-ish taste and they are just fun to look at. From Chateline Magazine: HOW-TO It’s Almost Fiddlehead Season! Here’s How To Cook This Springtime Veggie Properly Fiddleheads are a Canadian delicacy, but undercooking them can lead to food poisoning by Amy Grief Updated Apr 9, 2019 Fiddlehead season is short, so when you see the adorable green curlicues at your grocery store or farmers’ market, buy them while you can. Before chowing down on these little springtime delicacies, there’s a few things you should know first since fiddleheads can cause food poisoning if they’re not cooked properly. What are fiddleheads? These tightly curled coils are ostrich fern fronds. They start appearing in late April and early May in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and are usually found in forests, marshes and by rivers and streams. Taste-wise, fiddleheads, which are popular amongst food foragers, are...

Week #2 Challenge: Paper . . . and I mean ALL of your paper.

Annual Organization Challenge Week #2 How did you make out with last week's challenge? Did you find your work table? Here's this week's challenge: Your challenge this week is to S.P.A.C.E. your paper - - and I mean ALL of your paper: cardstock, patterned paper, specialty papers, and all those SCRAPS! SORT: Bring all of your paper to one area. Sort it all into piles: KEEP, SELL, DONATE, TRASH PURGE: bag up, and assign a price to paper bundles that you want to SELL at a garage sale or online, and put the bags in the garage sale box. Throw out the TRASH pile. Bag up the DONATE pile and immediately make arrangements for drop-off/pick-up or put in your vehicle. ASSIGN: separate your paper into categories that make sense to you. For example, you may want to divide it simply into cardstock and patterned paper. If you have a huge stash of paper, you may want to divide it by colour, theme, or manufacturer. **Another way to...

Journal Prompt ~ One Thing You Do Really Well

Name one thing you do really well . . . One thing I do really well is solve crossword puzzles.

In My World

Search This Blog