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  • About Homeplace
    • About Homeplace
    • Our Blog
    • Our Buildings and barns
    • Recipient Goat Herd at Homeplace
    • A Working Farm
    • Our Story: A History of Homeplace >
      • 2019 Review News letter
      • Log pen barn progression photos
  • Rent Homeplace
    • Rent Homeplace
    • Weddings
    • Local Event Services
  • Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Spring Plow Day
    • Fall Heritage Festival
    • Homesteading Conference >
      • Homesteading Conference 2023
      • Review of Homesteading Conference 2022
    • Music in the Barn >
      • Theater in the Barn
    • Vendor Information
    • Campus Map
  • Education Programs
    • Education Programs
    • Student field days
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    • Hiking Trail
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Summer 2022 Newsletter

7/11/2022

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By Lyn Stanton & Billy Joe Fudge
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July storm rolling across the farm.
Dear Friends,

​Summer is here in all its sweltering glory. The fields are plowed and sown. Schools are out of session, their regular wards turned to lose upon their families and yards. Sidewalks are scorching and making time to visit the lake or the pool is a weekly priority for many. Each evening, the smell of cook-outs glides through the air in our towns, and ice cream just tastes its best this time of year. Farms are busy and bustling with animals enjoying the season’s bounty and the days are filled with never-ending chores. All the heat, the sun, the work, the games, the time with family and friends, all these things make the fabric of life in the summer. There is such wonder and magic to it. 

But for all the simple joy summer brings, there is much to cause us anxiety and unease these days. 
Without going into many particulars, we can say 2022 is a year of uncertainty for all of us.  High fuel costs, high fertilizer costs, high costs of everything, and drought conditions in Kentucky and much of the surrounding area are contributing to that sense of uncertainty.  However, in the true spirit of the American Way, we are plowing forward. And at Homeplace, we are finding ways to provide some relief from economic woes with affordable rental rates, accessible family festivals, and dynamic education programs teaching self-reliance and sustainability, subscribing to that old adage about giving a fish, versus showing how to use a pole.

But before we dive into whats to come, let us share with you some highlights from the year so far as we have rounded the halfway marker.  We also want to make sure to thank all the great businesses and folks who have helped us this Spring!  So let's take a look back to our 2022 Plow Day Spring Festival. After missing our festivals in 2020 because of Covid and a wet 2021 Plow Day, we had an extremely successful event on the last Saturday of April.  Thanks should go out to all our event sponsors, demonstrators, our hardworking and devoted board members, vendors, and those that sacrificed their time and energy to stage our many events, including folks who hauled their horses and mules from all over Kentucky and beyond.  Enjoy a few snap shots of the day!
Spring Plow Day 2022 Slide Show

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We were blessed this Spring to have received a grant from our local Campbellsville Walmart, which allowed us to design and purchase two big, bright new road signs so folks can't miss us! 
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​Wedding announcements!

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​ Congratulations Mrs. April and Mr. Danny Berry, who were married at Homeplace on June 11th.

Rental price change coming in 2023!
We want to let folks know that our prices will be increasing beginning in January of 2023, but all contracts made with deposits paid before then will honor the current price, so if you want to save on your event in 2023, book now!

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​Something to look forward to, we received a grant from The Honorable Kentucky Colonels to improve our barns with some bling, some bass, and some heat! We have purchased heaters, a sound system, and a ton of warm twinkle lights to install in our Bank Barn!  Starting this fall, our barns will have a permanent sparkle after we wrap the interior poles in the lights and in the bank barn, guests will be able to link a play list from their phone right to the sound system via blue tooth.  Plus, as the weather shifts towards winter, we will be able to keep parties going with some high mounted heaters to keep our barn in use for much more of the year. 


​Looking Here at the Homeplace Farm, we have been beating the heat by keeping busy and getting ready for a very busy lineup of fabulous events coming soon for our community and region. Now saddle up your mule, hitch up your britchen' and let’s ride into the future. This summer and early fall are crammed full of family-friendly activities.  Our calendar has never been this intense.​

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On July, 14, our Goat Recipient Program will officially be born (pardon the pun) before our eyes.  I know most of you are getting ready to “Google” Goat Recipient Program right about now, so let me explain. 

Generally speaking, there are two commercial types of goats; milk goats and meat goats.  The milk goat males, of course, do not produce milk and are sold for the meat market.  Their slender body type usually produces a small and low-quality carcass for the market.  Consequently, many milk goat producers are using meat goat bucks to introduce hybrid vigor into their milk goat herds which produce better carcass weight and quality.  

Goats typically give birth to one, two or three kids (baby goats).  However, they will most often produce several more embryos that will fail to develop into fetuses.  Producers of valuable meat goat breeding stock such as the Boer breed do not want to waste these valuable embryos.  Therefore, they often use surrogates and harvest the extra embryos from their females and implant them into females of other breeds to act as mothers for the high value Boer goat kids.

Homeplace is proud and thankful to be partnering with Chris and Marie Anderson of Boerderline Goat Farm of Campbellsville, Ky.  There are currently about 40 nanny goats being lodged at Homeplace which will soon become surrogate mothers to Boerderline and other area goat farm embryos.  On July 14th we will have an embryologist here on the farm who will spend the entire day flushing does and implanting them into surrogates on the farm.  The goats which reside here are not just surrogate mothers, but lovely and delightful little clowns who enjoy their peaceful pasture and visits from people.  Soon we will have some feeders installed so that visitors can toss cracked corn and other treats.  We welcome you to stop by to see them and us! 

Upcoming Events

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​​Trail Run!

August 20th & 21st

A 12 hour trail run called The Possum! For more information and to sign up, visit our website. It is run on a 5K agrarian and wooded trail with a change of scenery around every turn, over every hill and down each valley.    
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​Fall Heritage Festival 

September 10th 

South Central Kentucky’s favorite, the 2022 Fall Heritage Festival! It will be bigger and better than ever with additional family oriented programming. Craft vendors, barrel train rides, hay rides, a hay maze, petting farm, guided hikes, pony rides, a raptor exhibit and new this year, a corn maze! And don’t forget the food to go along with the fun!  ​Just $20 per vehicle.

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Heartland Homesteading Conference

September 16th-18th 

 Whether you are new to homesteading, an old pro, or just wanting to learn how to be more self-dependent during these perilous times, there is much to be learned from the many classes, booths and presentations. From blacksmithing to raising milk goats, to medicinal herbs to processing chickens, this conference is a not to be missed. Visit with old friends and make many new ones at this special event.   
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Family Farm Day

November 5th
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We will have a butchering demonstration, an old-fashioned corn picking event, a beekeeping lecture, and more! We'll have more details soon, but make sure you put this on your calendar!

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October Family Fun

Every Sunday in October

We have planted a HUGE corn patch right next to campus and are working on carving it out into a maze pattern.  Each Sunday in October we will have the maze open for visitors.  We are partnering with a series of Campbellsville University, and Lindsey Wilson College student groups and will split the proceeds from admission with these partners to continue their good works. 

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Homeplace Halloween

Saturday, October 22nd
9am-3pm eastern

Bring the whole family to Homeplace for a day of fun crafts and activities. Leave the mess at home, purchase a pumpkin grown right in Campbellsville from 4E Farms to paint, or carve the Hay Maze will be open, and we'll have crafts in the bank barn, games on the field, a hay maze in the bottom of the bank barn and fairy and troll houses on the trail! We are partnering with a series of Campbellsville University, and Lindsey Wilson College student groups and will split the proceeds from admission with these partners to continue their good works. Kids are encouraged to wear and show off their costumes!
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