A Great Weekend for Petting Goats and Sheep in Park Slope & Red Hook

If you're looking for something to do with the kids on Saturday (10/13), we're happy to present a couple of options that will make it a great weekend for petting goats and sheep. One is the Annual Harvest Festival at J.J. Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. It takes place from 11AM-4PM and will include pony rides, a petting zoo, music, face painting, arts and crafts, a clothing swap from 10:30AM-1:30PM and a costume swap. It's all part of the Harvest Festival sponsored by the Park Slope Parents Group. You can see pics from last year's fun event here.

The other option is a petting zoo at the Chelsea Garden Center in Red Hook with free pony rides, face painting, balloon art, a clown on stilts and the aforementioned petting zoo. We were by there last weekend, and it looks colorful in a fall way--with a lot of pumpkins and mums around--this time of year. The Garden Center is at 444 Van Brunt Street, which is right up the street from the Fairway. Look at it this way, you can stop in for your groceries and pet a goat, or vice versa.