Family Fun at Harbes Farm
Harbes Family Farm (715 Sound Ave., Mattituck) is bringing cuteness overload back to Mattituck with their third annual Baby Animal Festival on Memorial Day Weekend. Through their Harbes Barnyard Adventure event, meet the cutest baby goats, lambs, bunnies and chicks the farm has to offer and enjoy a musical hayride tour of the 100-acre grounds. Free live music will also be available from 1 to 5 p.m. in the courtyard and picnic area for all three days the festival is held. Get tickets at harbesfamilyfarm.com.
Maytime Matinees
The North Fork Community Theatre (12700 Sound Ave, Mattituck) presents a production of L. Frank Baum’s classic musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from May 15 to June 1. Click your heels together and follow the asphalt North Road to reacquaint yourself with the familiar faces of Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West on the NFCT stage. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows all start at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees start at 2:30 p.m. If you have to choose just one date to stop on by, make sure to join the NFCT for a special performance on Friday, May 16, when Honorary Ozians — members of the community who have contributed to the play’s production through set design and special “Ozian” workshops — will “Walk the Green Carpet” at a pre-show reception. Admission to each showing is $30 per person and $25 for groups of 10 or more. Tickets can be purchased on nfct.com.
Macra-May
Celebrate all things textile at Hallockville Museum Farm’s (6038 Sound Ave., Riverhead) Fleece & Fiber Festival Saturday, May 17, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Featuring fiber artisans, their handmade wares, shearing demonstrations, the four-legged guests that make many fiber arts possible and special fiber-focused tours of the Hallockville Farm, this yearly festival will make you feel warm and fuzzy — inside and out. Admission is $10 per person at hallockville.org. Rain date is May 18.
Through May Flowers and Summer Showers
The Shelter Island History Museum (16 S Ferry Road, Shelter Island) will host Havens Farmers Market every Saturday starting May 24 and running through Aug. 30. The best part? It’s one of a few events on the North Fork that’ll be held rain or shine. Entry to the Havens Farmers Market is free and starts at 9 a.m., running until 12:30 p.m.
A Serenade Under the Stars
Rites of Spring Music Festival is collaborating with the Custer Astronomical Observatory (1115 Main Bayview Road, Southold) to create an immersive and celestial orchestral experience: New Music Under The Big Sky. The event will feature the innovative and collaborative work of the new Rites of Spring Ensemble group, consisting of clarinetist Emmalee Tello, flutist Beomjae Kim, violinist Yezu Woo and cellist Aaron Wolff. . This magical event takes place on Saturday, May 31, at 7 p.m. to round out the marvelous month of May. Tickets can be purchased at ritesmusic.org, and cost $30 for Friends of Rites of Spring Music Festival and members of Custer Institute and $40 for non-members.
