Get ready for high-gear excitement at Tractor Days at Eckert Farms! The plaza will be packed with farm machinery for kids and grown-ups to explore up close. Kids can see, touch and even sit in the driver's seats! Little farmers can enjoy tractor-themed sipper cups filled with farm-fresh sweet cider and take home tractor tattoos, stickers and coloring sheets.
Wagon rides will be available too, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tractor Days are on July 19 and 20 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Eckert Farms in Belleville.
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