September 2015 - Kentucky Farms are Fun

September is National Bourbon Heritage Month.
Agritourism
Monthly
Kentucky
Department
of Agriculture
James R. Comer, Commissioner
A MANAGEMENT NEWSLETTER FOR THE KENTUCKY AGRITOURISM INDUSTRY
Office of Marketing, Division of Agritourism • Amelia Brown Wilson, Director • (502) 7 82- 4136 • amelia.wilson @ ky.gov
September 2015
Markets help communities thrive
The Letcher
County
farmers’
market has
augmented
its growth
through
community
service.
Pleasureville
Farmers’ market off to a
big start in a small town
Story and photos
by Kari Miller
The small town of Pleasureville, on the border between
Henry and Shelby counties, welcomed a big addition
to Main Street this summer with the grand opening
of the Pleasureville Farmers’ Market. The new
facility was made possible thanks in part to assistance
from the Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural
Development (KCARD).
The KCARD team began working with
Pleasureville community leaders Susan Schlosnagle,
Cheryl Clark, and Jakob Beckley early in the
development of the farmers’ market plan, and the three
community leaders give the KCARD team credit for
helping the
market get off the
ground.
“KCARD
helped us look
at the design
from different
perspectives as we
were renovating
the building.
They were
instrumental
in guiding us as
we wrote grant
applications and
(see PLEASUREVILLE,
page 2)
Letcher County
KCARD, CSA helps a market
boost community health
The Letcher County Farmers’ Market began sowing
the seeds for a healthier community three years ago
when community leaders launched the market. The
small market that began with just a few farmers has
grown as a result of strong community support.
(see LETCHER, page 4)
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PLEASUREVILLE ... from page 1
helped us develop our budget and evaluate what would
be the best use of our money. I do not know what we
would have done without their help,” Clark said.
“As a community we have been working hard
to breathe life back into our Main Street to make it
an active business center once again, so it is exciting
to see the Pleasureville Farmers’ Market join our
revitalization efforts,” she said.
The Pleasureville Farmers’ Market is an indoor
year-round business on Main Street and a welcome
addition to a community without a grocery store. It
is also giving area farmers a local market for the wide
array of agricultural products produced in the rural
community.
Clark is enthusiastic about the strong dedicated
farmer base that has signed up with the new market to
provide fresh seasonal products year round.
Strong local participation
“We have eight farmers within 10 miles of
our small community that have already joined the
market,” explained Clark. “The Schlosnagles of Dutch
Creek Farm have grass-fed beef. Chelsey and Jared
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Schlosnagle will provide the market with pastured
eggs, chicken, and turkey. Kathy Lee-Jarvis of Katie O
Garden is a high tunnel producer that will have fresh
organic produce until late fall. Shaw Farms is providing
Heritage Pork to the market with various pork cuts in
addition to fresh vegetables. Jerry and Kathy Alsup are
value-added producers providing canned jams, jellies,
and pickles. Mike and Terry Grimes of Grimes Produce
and Barbara Gregory of Gregory Farms are supplying
ample selection of garden vegetables to the market,”
Clark said.
Register sales possible
The Pleasureville Farmers’ Market shares a
building with the Main Street Café & Bakery. Unlike
traditional markets, which require producers to be on
site with their products, the new market will allow
producers to drop off products at the market. Products
are displayed like an old-time store with a central
register to make a single purchase instead of having to
buy products from each vendor.
“Our schedule is so busy that we only have time
each week to do one farmers’ market on Saturday,
so we are really excited that we can have our locally
raised meats and eggs for sale at the market three days
writing an additional marketing grant to expand the
business.
“The Pleasureville Economic Development
Council has really put a lot of thought, effort, and
resources into their downtown revitalization efforts,”
said KCARD grant facilitator Aaron Shapiro.
“KCARD’s role was just to help them figure out how
the pieces fit together and help them consider what
funding options might be available to develop their
Site for special events
vision of an indoor farmers’ market.”
The grand opening of the Pleasureville Farmers’
The market will host special events throughout
Market
was the culmination of many hours of work
the season to give customers a chance to get to know
and planning, but Clark promised it is just the
the farmers. Along with special events, the market
beginning of a vibrant new community market. A
will provide retail space to 4-H Means Business, a
market that began as just an idea in a community
local 4-H entrepreneur group. The 4-H group will
planning meeting has come to fruition thanks to
have items for sale made by the young entrepreneurs,
including postcards with local scenes, beeswax candles, the commitment of countless individuals who are
dedicated to revitalizing the small community of
soaps, and a variety of other products. The young 4-H
entrepreneurs will have no setup fees, and they get all of Pleasureville, she said.
the profit from their sales.
“It is so satisfying to see people in our little town
again eating dinner, picking up fresh groceries, and
Planned to meet needs
shopping at the other businesses,” Clark said. “ It warms
The idea for the indoor market came together
my heart to see our little town come back to life again,
when leaders in the Pleasureville community began
and that is what this investment has been all about.”
developing a 10-year plan to revitalize Main Street. The
Pleasureville Farmers Market hours are 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Thursdays
number one business the group identified as needed in through Saturdays and 5:30 - 8 p.m. Friday evenings.
the community was a grocery store.
“Pleasureville has a rich agricultural history,
Farmers’ markets triple over past 15 years
predominantly dependent on tobacco and beef cattle.
The number of farmers’ markets nationally rose
As we transitioned away from tobacco, farmers have
to 8,476 in 2014, up from 2,863 in 2000 and 1,755 in
looked to other enterprises to supplement their farm
1994, says USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
income,” said Susan. “We identified the need in our
Farmers’ markets in the U.S. are statistically
community for a grocery, so I believed it was a natural
concentrated
in densely populated areas of the
fit to develop a farmers’ market.”
northeast, midwest, and west coast.
The building targeted for the market already
Generally, farmers’ markets feature items from local
housed the Main Street Café & Bakery, so a farmers’
food
systems, although depending on the definition
market would be a natural addition to the businesses.
of “local,” some vendors may come from outside the
“It has been a great fit,” Clark said, especially since
local region, and some local vendors may not sell locally
the restaurant purchases items from the market to be
produced products.
on the restaurant’s menu.
The government report concludes that the growing
number of farmers’ markets could reflect increased
KCARD’s role
demand for local and regional food products based on
KCARD was instrumental in assisting the market
consumer perceptions of their freshness and quality,
planning group in developing a business plan for the
support for the local economy, environmental benefits,
new enterprise and in writing a grant submitted to
or other perceived advantages of food from these
the Agricultural Development Board on behalf of this
marketing channels.
project. KCARD also made the community leaders
a week,” said Susan. “I think this is a great opportunity
for our area farmers and a great way to provide local
food to our community.”
To be part of the market, a farm pays a fee to join
the market each year, and then they receive 90 percent
of the sales of their farm products. The other 10 percent
goes to the market to help cover the overhead costs of
the indoor market, promotion, and other expenses.
aware of additional grant opportunities and assisted in
— USAgNet - 08/10/2015
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LETCHER ... from page 1
“The farmers selling at the market have increased
each year since we started, and this year sales are more
than double what they were this same time last year,”
explained Valerie Horn, market co-chairperson.
KCARD partnered with Community Farm
Alliance (CFA) to provide educational assistance for
the Farmers’ Market Support Program (FMSP). The
program provides business development resources,
technical support, and grant and loan assistance, with
the goal of building vendor skills.
The group established the market with a small
number of farmers, and the emerging market applied to
the CFA program.
Taking part in the CFA program was a significant
turning point for the market. In addition to marketing
workshops and training sessions, the group was
introduced to the development offers from KCARD.
The market leaders began working with KCARD at the
end of their first CFA session.
Business planning basics
“While resources for farmers’ market infrastructure,
signage and equipment are abundant in Kentucky,
many markets struggle to meet their needs for staffing,
marketing support, and capitalization,” said Nathan
Routt, KCARD business development specialist.
The KCARD staff presented workshops on
business planning basics for farmers’ markets,
incorporation basics, how to choose a business
structure, bylaws and market rules development, board
training basics, and board governance, Routt said.
Horn explained that, when the idea for the market
was developed with a small group of farmers and
volunteers, she was at the time working within her role
with Grow Appalachia, an organization promoting
sustainable agriculture.
Growth requires planning
Market leaders Valerie Horn and Hilary Neff
realized the Letcher County market was growing and
needed sound planning to successfully manage that
growth. “The planning done now will benefit farmers
that sell at the Letcher County market in the long
term,” Routt said.
“KCARD is a valuable resource for farmers,” Horn
said. “It is good to know a resource and agency is there
to help the small farmer ready to scale up.”
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Horn said the CFA program provides networking
opportunities for market leaders, connecting them with
market managers in the region and state.
“We really didn’t know what to expect, so being
able to share ideas and hear what has worked in other
communities was a great resource,” Horn said.
Funded part-time manager
The CFA support program also provided the costshare funds the market needed to hire Abby Maggard
as their part-time market manager beginning in their
second year. The city of Whitesburg provides the
matching funds for the market manager position.
“The first year I helped my dad at the market each
week, and I just fell in love with the market,” Maggard
said of her decision to apply as manager. “It has been a
great opportunity to work with the community. It is
just the place I feel like I belong.”
While both Maggard and Horn say the programs
offered through the market have been key to developing
a strong customer base, they also recognize the need to
provide support to the farmers.
Grow Appalachia, hosted by Cowan Community
Center, has provided support to growers and resources
for the market, including tents, tables, and scales.
“Each week we put up the tents and tables with
the farmers, plus we provide the bags. All a farmer has
to do is show up at the market and sell their products,”
Maggard said. The material support made a difference
to farmers, she observed during her first year of helping
her father at the market.
“I have seen in the past two years what an impact
one idea can have on a community,” Horn said.
The Letcher County Farmers Market is open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. until the end of October. www.letchercountyfarmersmarket.org.
-- Article and photos supplied by KCARD
Georgetown hotels, Old Friends expect Breeders’ Cup crowds
By Kayla Pickrell, Georgetown News-Graphic
Used by permission.
With the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at
Keeneland this year, hotels and restaurants will be full,
and Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement farm in
nearby Georgetown will be celebrating a new addition
and its own Breeders’ Cup winners.
The Halloween-weekend horse racing event will
bring celebrities, jockeys, breeders, owners and trainers
to central Kentucky.
With help from those running the Breeders’ Cup,
Old Friends owner and founder Michael Blowen has
set another homecoming party that will be similar to
the one after the Kentucky Derby. The event will be
held Nov. 1 from noon to 3 p.m.
“This will be a big celebration” of the additions to
the farm, Blowen said. “By that time, War Emblem will
be here, and who knows who else.”
Residing at Old Friends is retired racehorse Gulch,
the oldest Breeders’ Cup winner alive at age 31, who
was victorious in the 1988 Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
“We’ll continue to cement our relationship with the
horse racing industry,” Blowen said. “It should be fun.”
Blowen said Old Friends anticipates up to 400
people at the event.
Bookings already gone?
Not only will Old Friends see a spike in attendance,
but Scott County will see a tourism surge as well.
Georgetown/Scott County
Tourism Director John Simpson said
he knows of four local hotels already
booked solid for the Breeders’ Cup.
“My guess is that all the hotels
are already booked,” Simpson said.
“There’s a lot going on that weekend.”
Also that weekend, the University
of Kentucky hosts Tennessee in
football, and a national horse show is
set for the Kentucky Horse Park.
However, he said locals will not see much of a
change in Georgetown. “Most local people will not
notice much of a difference,” Simpson said. “It really
doesn’t impact our local roads.”
Instead, locals will notice busier restaurants in the
evening, much the same as the increased traffic during
the Rolex Three-Day Event, he said.
“It’s going to be good for us,” Simpson said.
Tickets: $25, $15 for members and shareholders. To order, visit
oldfriendsequine.org or phone (502) 863-1775.
Meet the Champions Nov. 1
Tickets are moving briskly, but some are still
available for the Nov. 1 Old Friends party, media
relations manager Cindy Grisolia told AM. “It’s
shaping up to be a very large event,” she said.
Festivities will include a barbecue, tours,
and silent and live auctions of Breeders’ Cup
equipment, artwork and photos, Grisolia said.
Eight Breeders’ Cup winners have moved
to Old Friends after their racing careers. Three
reside there presently: Amazombie, winner of
the 2011 Sprint; Eldaafer, winner of the 2010
Marathon, pictured below; and Gulch, the farm’s
senior champion, winner of the 1988 Sprint.
Thirty-two other Thoroughbreds who ran in
Breeders’ Cup races are also currently quartered
at Old Friends.
Goat companions Yahoo and Google keep
Eldaafer company as Old Friends founder
and owner Michael Blowen gives him a
treat. (Old Friends photo by Rick Capone)
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CHATEAU DU VIEUX
CORBEAU WINERY
471 Stanford Ave.
Danville, KY 40422
(859) 236-1775
Dominique Brousseau supervises the creation and production of 15 vintages.
A French wine family business in Danville
The making of Danville’s version of fine
French wines is a family endeavor, marketed
on a vigorous tasting schedule and created
by family input from winemaker/daughter
Dominique, business manager/father Andre,
and tasting room manager/mother Linda.
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By Jim Trammel
Here’s a low-cost, highly effective way to market
your Kentucky wines, courtesy of winemaker
Dominique Brousseau and her business managerfather, Andre, of Château du Vieux Corbeau Winery
in Danville.
“The best way we have discovered to market is to
taste,” Andre said. Andre and his
wife, Linda, produced pottery and
crafts for 25 years, doing extremely
well without ever advertising. “But
in the wine industry, there’s so much
competition from around the world
that you have to actually get out there
and market yourself,” he said.
Andre told AM of a couple
wanting red wine for heart health
who went to a local liquor store for
recommendations but were paralyzed
into indecision by the hundreds
of choices of reds from all over the
boosting event – quite often the stores arrange beer and
bourbon tastings alongside the wine event, and will
set out samples of cheese and deli items, which also sell
briskly to the visiting customers, he said.
world. “They came here, tasted our wines, and found
one they liked,” solving their problem. “The biggest
challenge is to get customers to try your wine, and once
they do, hopefully they’ll find a wine they like.”
So Andre takes charge of the process by setting up a
constant schedule of samplings at local liquor stores.
They have 15 stores in their circuit, a comfortable
number to rotate through, visiting one per week, then
seamlessly repeating from the beginning. “We have
never failed to sell one to three cases” at each two-hour
tasting session, Andre reports.
The tastings normally last two hours. The stores
furnish one-ounce sampling cups. Andre brings
three wines at a time – “Maybe a new one we’re just
introducing, or one we feel will go with that particular
season,” such as a cranberry wine for Thanksgiving
or Christmas consumption. Typically they will bring
a white Riesling and a red along to complement the
specialty choice.
The liquor stores are glad to have the traffic-
Kentucky should come first
Andre laments that sometimes ego gets in the way
of Kentucky winemakers cooperating to market the
Kentucky product. “There are so many wines out there
from China, Australia, Argentina, and all these places,
and we all ought to be helping each other sell Kentucky
wine made by Kentucky winemakers using Kentucky
fruit,” Andre said.
Kentucky fruit is a particular sticking point for
Andre. “I get upset with Kentucky winemakers who
use California grapes. I don’t know why they think a
Cabernet Sauvignon grape from California is better
than one from Kentucky,” he said. “Have they sent the
mediocre juice to us? You cannot produce a good wine
from bad juice, so you want the best,” Andre said.
“The European grape varieties grow well in
Kentucky.” Andre said. “We can get everything
we need to make wine here in Kentucky, except
cranberries. We would love to talk some farmer into
growing cranberries for us – we haven’t found any.”
(Cranberries are grown mainly north of here, primarily
in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington,
and Oregon.)
Consummate artistry
Dominique has an excellent palate, as opposed to
Andre’s own that he says was permanently scorched in
New Orleans with “too much Cajun food”. She also
has the patience to extract the best from her wine. “I’ve
come to learn to trust her judgment, because she has
really done well,” Andre said.
Dominique is so all-hours dedicated to her
winemaking that, she says, her home life often consists
of moving a cot into the wine cellar. Andre frees up
Dominique’s concentration by running the business
end of things, dealing with tax matters, marketing,
advertising, and generally pushing the company paper,
Wife and mother, Linda, manages the tasting room.
At bottling time, when all the operations have
to be done in a single day, all the family helps; but
Dominique, the expert, still calls the shots.
With her personal stamp comes an insistence on
quality, Andre said. When Dominique contracts with
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“Château du Vieux Corbeau” sounds
ever so much more romantic than “Old
Crow Inn,” its English translation.
Though the English name has its own
striking charm, the family abandoned
it to avoid conflicts with the distillery.
The B&B that used to operate here did
well by the Old Crow Inn name. It was
operated primarily by sister Mignon
who ultimately got out of the business
to raise a family. Likewise, a pottery
business operated by matriarch Linda
flourished for a while back in the early
days of the winery.
farmers, they know they have to produce a certain
quality or be dropped from her supplier list.
When they agree the fruit is at its peak, she and
her suppliers set a date for harvesting, and they hire 15
to 20 workers to harvest all the grapes in a vineyard,
who work hard to, within the same day, take the steps
needed to convert those grapes to juice.
So Dominique is sometimes up until 1 or 2 a.m.
on harvest days, processing the juice through the destemmer and crusher, and draining the juice into the
tanks.
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“We’re French, we can make wine”
She began learning winemaking back at the turn of
this century with the help of an online program from
the University of California–Davis, aided by her college
chemistry background.
“Originally, our intent was to start a vineyard,” she
remembers. “In 2001, we planted the first half of our
vines. We had owned our farm since 1996 – it had been
a farm for over 200 years through various families.
“My dad was from New Orleans, and my mom
from North Carolina. And somewhere in the middle
of all that, Dad
decided ‘We’re
French, we can make
wine,’ so we started a
winery.”
The first order of
business was to have
a special election in
their precinct to be
legally allowed to
sell wine in a dry
county. “We called
our friends in the
neighborhoods
around us and met at
the farm to tell them
what we intended
and ask for their
help,” Dominique
remembers.
The tasting room.
The sympathetic neighbors passed petitions in their
neighborhoods, and thanks to the relatively narrow
scope of an election in only one precinct, securing
approval was not too hard a task, she said.
Four expands to 15
The family built their winery in 2002, opening
their doors that October.
They started out with four varieties – now they
produce about 15 varieties, some new blends, and some
berry wines. “I like to experiment down in the wine
cellars,” she explained.
Fourteen feet down, the winery cellar remains a
fairly steady 60 degrees all year. The cellar contains
stainless steel tanks of various sizes from 50 to 1,000
gallons. All in all, Dominique has a tank capacity of
approximately 10,000 gallons.
Their best seller depends on the time of year. One
that gets good reviews is called “Trouble,” named for a
goose that serves as weed control in rheir allied organic
garden.
The organic garden is a separate operation – grapes
are difficult to grow organically because of Japanese
beetles and other insect pests, Andre said. The organic
garden’s produce – greens, orchard fruits, berries,
squash, okra, and tomatoes – is used for their catering
operations.
Some of the berries make it into their berry wines,
made a special way by Dominique. She doesn’t add
the other fruit juices that complicate the flavors of
berry wines, such as, for example, apples or bananas
contributing to wines named for a berry. “I just put
whatever that berry is in a tank,” she said.
Linda meets tasting room customers from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and Dominique
joins her to tell customers about the wines they’re
sampling.
Appointments after hours can be arranged for more
special presentations by the entire family. The winery
has mounted special events for clients such as Centre
College, Kentucky Women in Agriculture, and a local
group of optometrists.
Dominique says the winery is in the middle of
an effort to re-do tourism signage coordinated by the
Danville-Boyle County tourism office.
Their wines are available at Liquor Barn (all three
Lexington and all three Louisville locations), The
Party Store (Northern Kentucky), Capital Cellars
(Frankfort), and various Kroger satellite liquor stores.
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KENTUCKY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SEPTEMBER
8/29 - 9/5: Jackson Co. Fair – McKee
1-7: Grayson Co. Fair – Leitchfield
2-7: Alexandria Fair – Alexandria
4-5: Cumberland River Music Fest – Williamsburg
Isom Days and Rodeo – Isom
Tobacco Festival – Sandy Hook
4-6: Heritage Days – Augusta
Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival – Winchester
Kentucky Bluegrass & Bourbon Experience – Louisville
Swift Silver Mine Festival – Campton
4-7: WorldFest – Louisville
Goldenrod Gala Arts Festival – 5:
Carrollton
5-6: Kentucky Native American Heritage Museum Festival – Corbin
5-7: KWW Arts & Crafts Festival –
Grand Rivers
5-12: Pecan Festival – Hickman
Riverfest – Newport
6:
Fall Heritage
Festival
Saturday, September 12
9 a.m.– 4 p.m. EDT
Homeplace on
Green River
5807 New Columbia Road (Hwy 55)
Campbellsville, KY 42718
Festival family fun
$5/carload parking
(includes 3 free tickets)
games & prizes 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
family games during the day
free music under the tent
art activities for kids 1-3 p.m.
alpacas and horses to visit
hay wagon rides
pioneer re-enactors
barrel train rides
7:
8-13:
9-11: 9-12:
Labor Day Celebration – Paducah
Powell Co. Fair – Stanton
Civil War Days – Columbus
Fraley Festival of Traditional Music – Olive Hill
10-12: Old Fashioned Trading Days – Williamsburg
10-13: Balloons, Tunes & BBQ –
Bowling Green
10-19: Edmonson Co. Fair – Brownsville
11-12: Family Fun Festival & Craft Show – Middletown
11-12: Area Days – Neon
11-13: Chautauqua Days – Millersburg
Civil War Days – Munfordville
Kentucky State BBQ Festival – Danville
Mainstrasse Village Oktoberfest – Covington
Roots & Heritage Festival – Lexington
ScareFest – Lexington
Septemberfest – Louisa
12: Homeplace on Green River - Fall Heritage Festival – Campbellsville
Harvest Homecoming – Mackville
Rolling Fork Iron Horse Festival –
New Haven
Via Colori Street Painting Festival – Elizabethtown
12: Airfest Aviation Festival – Georgetown
12-13: Apple Festival – Georgetown
Trimble Co. Apple Festival – Bedford
12-19: Banana Festival – Fulton
13: Fall Arts Festival – Frankfort
Hillbilly Daze Festival – Millville
Kids Fest – Richmond
13-20:Gaslight Festival – Jeffersontown
15-19:Poppy Mountain Bluegrass Festival – Morehead
15-20: Kentucky Bourbon Festival – Bardstown
17-19: Black Gold Festival – Hazard
Blazin’ Bluegrass Festival – Whitley City
GREENSLEEVES FARM
art vendors - food vendors
of Alexandria presents their continuing
nature scavenger hunt
FARM TO PLATE
DINNER SERIES
Sept. 20
learn about mason bees
face & nail painting - self defense
demo
sheltered activities area
for children age one to five
www.homeplacefarmky.org
Homeplace on
Green River, Ky.
(270) 789-0006
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Matt Buschle of Virgil’s Cafe
More information and tickets:
www.greensleevesfarm.com
10551 Pleasant Ridge Road, Alexandria, KY 41001
www.virgilscafe . com
Virgil’s Cafe, Facebook
17-20: Airfest Georgetown/Scott County Aviation Festival – Georgetown
Robertson Co. Ag Fair– Mount Olivet
Rolling Fork Iron Horse Festival
– New Haven
Via Colori Street Painting Festival
– Elizabethtown
18-19:Autumn Daze Festival – Vine Grove
Cow Days – Greensburg
Festival Latino de Lexington – Lexington
Hazel Day – Hazel
Heritage Festival – Horse Cave
River Days Festival – West Point
18-20:Poage Landing Days – Ashland
Secretariat Festival – Paris
Spoonbread Festival – Berea
19: Arts, Crafts & Music Festival – Rochester
Dragon Boat Festival – Paducah
Fort Harrod Jazz Festival – Harrodsburg
Harvest Festival – Pembroke
Kentucky Fried Zine Fest – Lexington
Mighty Pumpkin Run, Gallrein
Farms – Shelbyville National Jug Band Jubilee – Louisville
Oktoberfest – Butchertown, Louisville
Simon Kenton Festival – Maysville
19-20:Fall Festival – Midway
Harvest Festival – Georgetown
Jane’s Saddlebag Bluegrass Fall Festival – Union
23-26:Honeyfest – Clarkson
24-26:Apple Festival – Liberty
Barbecue on the River – Paducah
Bluegrass Festival – Vine Grove
Carroll Co. Tobacco Festival – Carrollton
Casey Co. Apple Festival – Liberty
Tobacco Festival – Carrollton
World Chicken Festival – London
25: Squash, Sweet Potato and Zucchini Festival – Munfordville
25-26:Cave Run Storytelling Festival – Morehead
Pansy Festival – Russell Springs
Proud Days – Cave City
Wall Street Festival – Lebanon Junction
(continued)
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SEPTEMBER
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25-27:Burgoo Festival – Lawrenceburg
Ohio Co. Fair – Hartford
Ole Cider Days – Newport
Sorghum Festival – West Liberty
26: Cannon Farm Fest – Stamping Ground
Central Kentucky Crafts Festival – Owenton
Happy Days – Radcliff
International Festival – Bowling Green
NULU Fest – Louisville
Roebling Fest – Covington
Sorghum Festival – Metcalfe County
26-27:Country Ham Days – Lebanon
HarvestFest, Shaker Village – Harrodsburg
Heritage Harvest Tour – Louisa and Catlettsburg
Ole Cider Days – Utica
Irish Fest – Louisville
Steamboat Festival – Hawesville
O C T O BER
1-3: 1-5: 2-3: 2-4: Fair and Homecoming – Caneyville
Heritage Trail Days – Whitley City
Old Fashion Days – Greenup
Washington Co. Fair - Springfield
Bittersweet Festival – Mount Vernon
Jim Beam BBQ Classic – Springfield
Mary Breckinridge Festival – Hyden
Octoberfest – Taylorsville
Sorghum Festival – Springfield
Corn Maze and Fall Nights – Eminence (all Oct. weekends)
Festival of the Horse – Georgetown
TOURS OPEN AT BOONE’S CREEK
CREAMERY -- Ed Puterbaugh
(below left, and below right as
a signboard cutout), takes Holly
Shouse of Lexington on a tour
of his Lexington cheesemaking
operation. We reported last spring
in Agritourism Monthly how Ed’s
business received national attention
in a TV ad campaign.
11-13: Kentucky BBQ Festival – Danville
2-4: Kentucky Wool Festival – Falmouth
St. James Court Art Show – Louisville 16-17:Fall Festival – Mt. Washington
Foothills Festival – Albany
3: Arts & Crafts Festival – Wilmore
16-18: Salt Festival – Union
Kentucky Apple Festival – Paintsville
16-19: Court Days – Mount Sterling
Octoberfest – Smithland
17: Bluegrass Festival – Shepherdsville
Pumpkin Festival – Edmonton
ColorFest – Clermont
Pumpkin Festival – Marion
Craft Beer Festival – Bardstown
Woofstock – Carrollton
Crossing Festival – Glendale
3-4: Arts & Crafts Festival – Henderson
Maiden Alley Oktoberfest – Paducah
Lincoln Days – Hodgenville
17-18: Apple Festival – Owensboro
3-10: Tobacco and Heritage Festival – Russellville
23-25:Woolly Worm Festival – Beattyville
4-10: Daniel Boone Festival – Barbourville
24-25: Independence Bank Sorghum Festival – Hawesville
7: Taste of Louisville
30-31: Field of Horror at Devine’s 7-10: Jenny Wiley Festival – Prestonburg
Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch
7-11: Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass – Harrodsburg
Celebration – Rosine
Compiled from the listing of county fairs and
9-10: Belknap Fall Festival – Louisville
ag events posted at the Kentucky Department
Country Ham Festival – Cadiz
of Agriculture website, www.kyagr.com; and
Downtown Days – Columbia
the Kentucky Festivals Schedule page at
9-10: Forkland Heritage Festival & Revue – ohiofestivals.net. Events are subject to change
or cancellation; check with site before attending.
Gravel Switch
Garvin Gate Blues Festival – Louisville
Railroad and Bluegrass 30 to enjoy Farm To Table
Festival – LaGrange
10: Turning of the Leaves alpaca ranch dinner event
Festival – Augusta
River Hill Ranch and Hill Restaurant,
Pigapalooza II -- Richmond, is sponsoring an Alpaca
Horseshoe Bend Vineyards, Willisburg
Farm to Table Dinner Saturday, Sept.
26 from 5-10 p.m. The event is the only
Southwest Festival – Louisville
one in the country “that highlights the
10-11: Arts, Crafts & Antique Fair – unique meat of alpaca,” ranch owner/
Bardstown
operator Alvina Maynard said.
11: Hunters Moon Fall Festival –
Grand Rivers
Five courses of alpaca meat and
local foods will pair with wine from
nearby wineries. Chef Robert Weickel will
prepare the meal over a wood fire near
tableside.
Only 30 tickets will be sold.
The farm gate at 680 River Hill Dr,
Richmond, opens at 5 p.m.; a welcome
presentation at 6:30 will be followed by
the dinner at 7.
A portion of the proceeds will
be donated to the Farmer Veteran
Coalition, Maynard said. “This year
River Hill Ranch received a grant from
FVC to fund shearing equipment and
fencing for more pasture,” and they
want to “pay it forward,” she said.
Tourist, customer, and
friend of Boone’s Creek
Yvonne Hamilton.
Tickets and information: www.riverhillranch.us/
ranch-events/2015/9/26/farm-to-table-dinner
-- River Hill Ranch press release
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Sugar Grove
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9650 Palmyra Road
Oak Grove, KY 42262
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5:30 p.m.
Wine Tasting and
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6:00 p.m.
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Mail to:
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Farmer’s Feast
2850 Pembroke Road
Hopkinsville, KY 42240
Phone: (270) 886-6328