Quilting with Friends
Many hands make light work! Finishing up a hand pieced, hand quilted, quilt for this year’s Fair. Stop by the Sewing booth in the Craft Pavilion to see or purchase this quilt during the Fair!
The Fair
3600 Hamburger Buns
Our bakers have been busy preparing hamburger buns for the Fair! All the bread served during our Fair is hand made right in our own bakery (located inside the Homestead Market) using all whole grain flour and simple ingredients – no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Come by the Market and take home fresh bread … Read more
One Turn Left!
We have spent many fun evenings gathered around the quilt singing, talking and poking ourselves here and there ????. We have already used over 660 yards of thread and dried out many marking pens. We determined at the beginning of the project that we would not be seeing the last stitch on Thanksgiving night and … Read more
What does it take to make a pretzel dog?
Our pretzel dogs aren’t just a run-of-the-mill lunch. Starting with locally sourced, grass-fed beef and our own signature spice blend, our butchers first run the meat through the grinder three times, and then stuff and smoke the hot dogs. Once the dogs come out of the smoker they are plunged briefly into ice water to … Read more
Leather Booth
Heritage Leather is excited to announce the addition of genuine sheepskin slippers to their line of products in the Homestead Leather Booth at the Fair! These fuzzy slippers are the perfect thing for keeping your feet warm and cozy! We will also have leather bags, wallets, belts and more. Stop by our booth in the … Read more
Soap Makers are coming to the home stretch
The soap makers get more inventive as we near the home stretch ….. This is a new scent and type of soap: honey comb soap! All of our soaps are super sudsy and rich, you’ll never want to go back to store bought soap again!
6 to 9 year old choir practice
These little kids are preparing several new songs this year for the Fair! They’re learning to use sign language, sing in tune and clap their hands in rhythm together. This is also a great choir for our younger musicians to learn to play their instruments together and accompany the choir on. They’re … Read more
Hi Everyone – It’s Fair Time Again!
Our annual Homestead Fair will open Thanksgiving weekend at 9 AM Friday, with 2 full days of crafts, activities, live music, food courts, shopping and family fun. Welcome to our 2016 Fair Blog! We’re anticipating our 29th annual Fair to be the best ever, with a record-breaking crowd of friends, neighbors, families and fairgoers from … Read more
Hand Made Jump Ropes
Each rope starts out as 5 , 50′ lengths of nylon. Then we start to twist them until the beautiful colors begin to blend together into a tight rope. After that we pull them out straight and smooth. Then we attach handles. These are wonderful jump ropes, just the right weight for a great jump! … Read more
