The Exchange Place in Kingsport will have its Fall Folk Arts Festival Sept. 28 and 29. The event will celebrate pioneer arts and crafts, the harvest season, artisans demonstrating and selling traditional folk arts, and autumn plants, produce and unique foods.

This year’s event will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from noon until 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $5 for 12 and up with those under 12 admitted free.

Proceeds go toward the care of the farm’s animals and the continuing restoration and preservation of the site, located at 4812 Orebank Road in Kingsport.

The farmstead will be bustling with activity as artists from the region gather to demonstrate and pass along the skills of yesteryear to the next generation. Featured arts will include soap making, hand painting on slate, paper quilling, hand-crafted greeting cards, as well as other crafts.

Featured artists this year at the Overmountain Weavers’ Guild, experts in spinning and weaving, which is based at the Exchange Place. They can generally be found in the farm’s Roseland Building the third Wednesday of the month discussing all manner of fiber-related topics and spinning. August finds them holding weekend weaving classes. Also, on display will be the Guild’s display of quilts, borrowed from families with a distinct Exchange Place history and quilted textiles that were exclusive to the living history farm.

A new tradition at the festival is the cooking of sorghum. Sorghum cane, which was planted earlier this will be harvested. The very time-consuming task consists of squeezing the juice from the cane, boiling it until the water has evaporated to the point where only pure sorghum is left in the pan. Sunday’s activities will include educational explanations about the mill, the cane, the process of making sorghum as well as opportunities to visit the cane patch and compare sorghum cane with sugar cane to learn about the differences up close.

The harvest season will also be evident in autumn produce, such as pumpkins, local honey, dried flowers, fall plants, and seasonal crafts.

And, of course a highlight of the festival will be the Exchange Place farm animals.