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Lyman Orchards Berry Fest!

July is berry pickin' time. Bring your family and friends to celebrate the delicious mid-summer berry crops with a fun, family-oriented event, featuring many interactive activities for everyone, including live music with the great Downtown Train Band, and lots of free samples of delicious berry treats!

New! Adventure Games provided by Empower Zip Line!

Do you like to be challenged? Enjoy being part of a team? Or do your teambuilding skills need a little help? Empower Zip Lines, a Leadership and Sports Facility in Middletown, CT, hosts a series of fun Adventure Games for the whole family!

Help build a Giant Puzzle! Build a working Pipeline! Try your luck in an old-fashioned Bean Bag Toss, and test your teambuilding skills with a Helium Hoola-Hoop! Families may compete for prizes and special offers!

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These family-oriented games are low-impact, not physically-demanding, but do test your ability to work with your teammates!

Event activities also include Breakfast on the Deck, Pick Your Own Blueberries, Raspberries, and Jostaberries, pie-eating contests, horsedrawn wagon rides, and more!

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Schedule of Activites:

• Breakfast on the Deck; 8am – 11am

• Pick Your Own Blueberries, and more!  Call the PYO Hotline for picking times and locations: 860.349.6015

• Free Food Tastings in the Apple Barrel; 10am - 5pm

• Horse-drawn Wagon Rides with Foxglove Farm; 11am – 3pm

• Adventure Games with Empower Zip Lines, 11:30am - 3pm

• Outdoor Grill & Ice Cream; open 11:30 - 5pm

• Fresh-popped Kettle Corn!

• Face painting by Ruth; free for children; 12 noon - 4pm

• Pony Rides for Kids; 12 noon - 4pm.

• Live Performance on the Apple Barrel deck from 1pm-3pm with CJ West & the Downtown Train Band.

• Blueberry Pie Eating Contest for Children and Adults; 3:30pm. The classic old-fashioned contest! Compete to win a family pack of movie tickets!

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