Homeplace on Green River’s Plow Day and Spring Festival will liven up southcentral Kentucky again April 21, 2018. This year will see antique tractors join the horse and mule plow teams, exhibits, demonstrations, arts and crafts sales, hands-on activities, historical reenactors and all kinds of animals.
There will be hay rides and a barrel train and petting farm for the youngsters. Artists and crafters will be selling their Kentucky-made products. There will be food vendors and all-day live music in the newly restored and renovated bank barn. All will be geared toward a day of family food and fun. The festival is from 9:00 until 5:00 Eastern Time.
Among the many exhibits and demonstrations will be a grist mill and butter-making, colonial re-enactors, horse shoeing, hand-on pottery making for the younger set, pocket knife whittling, draw knife and a shave horse demonstration, discussion on barrel racing on a horse by a professional woman barrel racer, arrowhead crafting, a grist mill and blacksmith. Hands-on activities will include butter making, a potter’s wheel, and a petting farm. Margie and Paul Phibbs from Barnett Creek Frarms will have the alpacas and alpaca wool products at the festival and Darlene Campbell will be displaying and showing natiive American languages, culture, customs and crafts.
The $10 per car for admission includes all the activities except for products purchased from vendors.