Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Join Sara Nixon (Director of Community Engagement) to talk about the past, present, and future of The Brown Homestead and explore the many layers of history that have laid the foundations for the community gathering space the John Brown House and surrounding property now serve as.

This is a free, virtual event.

Join artist Rémy Bles for a day of hands-on artistic engagement at The Brown Homestead. Spend the morning making pigments out of recycled building materials, plants, and vegetables and after a lunch on the grounds, enjoy a painting session using the pigment you created!

Included: All materials and supplies needed for pigment making and painting will be provided during the workshop. One glass of wine, coffee, tea, and pastries.
What You’ll Take Home: A finished 8.5” x 11” watercolour painting, a bottle of our “Dairy Red” brick pigment powder, and recipe cards for each of the pigments made during the session so they can try the process at home!
Not Included: Lunch is not included in this workshop package. There will be a one-hour break in between sessions and we encourage you to bring a bagged lunch to enjoy on the property!

Tickets can be purchased below.

We are not open for guided tours on Saturday June 21st due to the Sustainable Creators: Watercolour Pigment Making and Painting Workshop taking place on site. We hope you can join us at the event, or book a tour for another time!

Join Sara Nixon (Director of Community Engagement) to learn about Power Glen’s history and how the water power at Decew Falls was first harnessed to build Canada’s cradle of hydroelectricity. Explore how the power generating station, first built in 1898, transformed the landscape, fostering the growth of Power Glen, and signaled the technological advances of the twentieth century.

This is a free, phone-in virtual event.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

We are not open for guided tours on Saturday June 28th due to the Indigenous Medicines Workshop taking place on site. We hope you can join us at the event, or book a tour for another time!

Join Jackie Labonte and Marie Louise for an engaging and educational workshop about traditional medicines, how to identify them and understand their benefits. Part of the workshop will include a walk through Short Hills Provincial Park.

Because this event runs through normal tour hours, The Brown Homestead will not be open for tours!

This is a free event but spots are limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Join Sara Nixon of The Brown Homestead to discover how the landscape of the Short Hills enticed early settlers, including the Loyalist Brown family, to settle around its edges, and the role its "inviolable" terrain played in the development of this small nook of the Niagara Peninsula. Stories will be traced from pre-settlement uses by Indigenous peoples through to the creation of Short Hills Provincial Park in 1985.

Doors open @ 6:00pm for tours of The Brown Homestead prior to the talk.

This is a free event.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Join Peter Hudson, early North American trades historian and Journeyman Joiner, and follow along with his progress as he builds a flax break and saw horse this summer. Learn about heritage craftsmanship and trades in action!

Be sure to explore our historic site while you're here, or join a guided tour!

Join Peter Hudson, early North American trades historian and Journeyman Joiner, and follow along with his progress as he builds a flax break and saw horse this summer. Learn about heritage craftsmanship and trades in action!

Be sure to explore our historic site while you're here, or join a guided tour!

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Join Peter Hudson, early North American trades historian and Journeyman Joiner, and follow along with his progress as he builds a flax break and saw horse this summer. Learn about heritage craftsmanship and trades in action!

Drop-in Tool Sharpening 

Visit us throughout the day with your tools for sharpening demonstrations! 

Be sure to explore our historic site while you're here, or join a guided tour!

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Join Peter Hudson, early North American trades historian and Journeyman Joiner, and follow along with his progress as he builds a flax break and saw horse this summer. Learn about heritage craftsmanship and trades in action!

Be sure to explore our historic site while you're here, or join a guided tour!

Join Peter Hudson, early North American trades historian and Journeyman Joiner, and follow along with his progress as he builds a flax break and saw horse this summer. Learn about heritage craftsmanship and trades in action!

Be sure to explore our historic site while you're here, or join a guided tour!

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

We are not open for guided tours on Saturday July 26th due to the Pickling Workshop taking place on site. We hope you can join us at the event, or book a tour for another time!

Join Marcia Christie during one of two sessions and learn how to make probiotic-rich, fermented cucumber pickles. Participants will go over how to select the best produce, washing and preparation, packing jars, and making the brine. Things like the fermenting process, best practices, and time frames for pickling will be discussed in detail. Participants will also receive a written guide to take home that includes all of this information and more!

All ingredients are provided, but we ask for a $5 fee per person to offset the costs of the pickles. The Brown Homestead also asks that participants bring along a few things from home to assist in the pickling:

• A large bowl

• A potato peeler

• A cutting board

• A paring knife

• (And if you desire) an apron!

Two sessions will be offered- a morning session from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, and an afternoon session from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased below.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

We are not open for guided tours on Saturday August 23rd due to the Three Sisters Soup Workshop taking place on site. We hope you can join us at the event, or book a tour for another time!

Join Carrissa Gracey in the Dining Room for a collaborative Three Sisters Soup making workshop. Participants will learn about the importance of the three sisters in Haudenosaunee culture and everyone will work together in preparing the soup. Afterwards, everyone will have the opportunity to enjoy a bowl of homemade soup.

To help us supply this workshop for free, we ask that guests bring a couple things (if possible) to assist the soup process:

• A cutting board and knife

• A bowl and spoon to enjoy the soup!

This is a free event, but spots are limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

With more than two centuries of history and four different families, this is a house that has endured many changes to meet the needs of each new generation. Join Sara Nixon to explore the many layers that make up the Brown Homestead as she presents to members of the Colonel John Butler (Niagara) Branch of UELAC.

Please note that this event is being held off-site at Betty’s Restaurant at 8921 Sodom Road, Niagara Falls and starts at 11:45am.

This is a free event.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Join Linda Crago and discover the importance of heirloom varieties and seed saving! We’ll explore the basics of saving seeds from your own garden through hands-on learning.

This is a free event, but spots are limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

Guided tours begin every hour, on the hour at the front of the John Brown House. Tours are approximately 60 minutes. We recommend booking your tour in advance of your book to save your spot, as tour space is limited.

After what we hope to be a nourishing and rewarding growing season, join Jackie Labonte and Marie Louise in closing the Three Sisters Garden as a community. Together, we will offer our thanks and share in singing and drumming. All community members are welcome.

This is a free event, and we hope to see you there!