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Every year at this time, I make a trek northward to De Kalb Texas. Its about 4 hours north east of here. I go to a huge sawmill in search for a few good logs to demonstrate chairmaking at our annual Homestead Fair. I’m looking for a good straight log that is about 5 to … Read more
Sounds great! The instrumental band has some of their best stuff ever this year – and you can only hear this at the Fair! You don’t want to miss it.
The Youth Choir practicing for the Fair. These young people have a great time singing together all year round. They sing in nursing homes, as guest singers in local churches, and various other locations. They’ve learned to sing a cappella, in 4 part harmony, and much more. They’ll be singing in the afternoon music in … Read more
Today we started off with 4,000 pounds of white and sweet potatoes, which we then washed, cut and blanched. After they cooled we packed them into the walk in refrigerator to await Friday morning of the Fair! Of course, we ran a few through the fryer for test runs. It wasn’t hard to find willing taste testers. … Read more
This weekend, Nov 22 & 23, is fondly called French Fry Weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, we will wash, punch & blanch 1500 pounds of sweet potato fries and 2500 pounds of white potato French fries….That’s 2 tons of fries!!!
If you’ve enjoyed our music, be sure to listen to this new solo piano instrumental album “Journey of Hope” recorded and produced by another one of our piano players, Andrew Taylor. A gifted musician, Andrew has been playing piano since he was a young boy. He learned to play using the methods that we developed in … Read more
I ran into gardener Tim Tittley at a music practice and asked about how the plants in the Green House survived our arctic cold blast this past week. Here’s what he said about the plants inside the grow beds: “They all survived and are doing quite well. The tomatoes took a little more of a hit … Read more
For a glimpse of the many sights and sounds you’ll experience at Homestead Fair, watch our new 2014 Fair video.
My handy little assistant (son), Luke, is helping me layer the last of the 700 fabric circles with tissue. We will use these to wrap up your homemade soap ball, tie it with a ribbon and add a tag with “Made by…” You can help us fill in the blank! That’s all the prep for … Read more
We are now over halfway through making our home made ice cream for the Fair. We mix it up in individual batches and then freeze each one individually in our batch freezer. We supply ice cream all over the fairgrounds so you can have it with your cherry crisp, apple pie or donut. You can also have … Read more