Some appetizing aromas will waft around the autumn air Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Black Pot Cooking Festival and Cultivator’s Market in Jefferson.

Pulled pork, beans, sweet potatoes, turnip greens, cornbread and cobbler will be cooked over an open fire in black pots at Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm at 2355 Ethridge Road in Jefferson.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and younger. The single purchase will allow guests to taste plate of food and a choice of tea, lemonade or water.

Tickets may be purchased via PayPal or with credit card at shieldsethridgefarminc.com/visit/black-pot-cookin or in person at the Jackson County Farm Bureau office, 2388 US 129 Business, in Jefferson. You may also call 706-367-2949.

Parking and admission to the cultivator’s market are free. Pets are prohibited.

The taste fare and cultivators market will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The market will showcase local growers and vendors, including Lazy Goat Produce with jams, jellies and relishes; Finch Creek Farm’s produce; Amanda’s Farm to Fork with fresh-baked breads, rolls and scones; Ally Bee’s Honey; and Shields-Ethridge grits and cornmeal. Other vendors will have artwork of farm landscapes, goat milk soap and textile creations.

The Sunroom Gang will provide music on the tractor barn stage from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. Children’s activities including goat milking and tastings of goat milk, cheese and yogurt begin at 9 a.m.

All activities will take place on the Shields-Ethridge Heritage Farm, which is off U.S. 129 (Damon Gause Bypass) in Jefferson. The 152-acre farm, listed in 1992 on the National Register of Historical Places, is an outdoor agricultural museum functioning as an educational and interpretative facility in Northeast Georgia. It has a unique collection of intact historic buildings that exist in their original location. The farm has been in the same family for almost 200 years.

Among the historic, agricultural buildings are a cotton gin, grist mill, wheat house and mule barn as well as a teacher’s house, commissary and gin office.

A foundation was formed in 1994 — the same year the farm received a Georgia Centennial Heritage Farm Award — to help preserve the farm. Grants have made the restoration of structures, digitalization of family papers and preservation of the history of cotton farming possible.

The foundation partnered with the staff of Northeast Georgia Regional Commission to develop a self-guided interpretative program using innovative, interpretative tools. Development of a computer and smartphone application, available from the iTunes appStore, gives visitors unique tour of the property. Self-guided tours are available seven days a week without reservation from sunrise to sunset from April through October. Guided tours are available by reservation during operational hours Monday through Thursday from April through October. For reservations and group rate information, call 706-367-2949.

Guided field trips for K-12 are available at $8 per student, and senior citizen and other special groups and tour bus visits can also be scheduled.

For more information, visit www.shieldsethridgefarminc.com.