The virtual Monster tomato contest attracted a record 9 entries! We usually only have 3 or 4 people brave enough to give Jen Cavey a run for the money. As luck and tomato blight would have it, she didn’t enter this year. The suspense is over! Our new reigning tomato champion with 2.16 pounds is Donna[…]
I had great fun with these contests. I hope you all enjoyed them as well. Heidi Breedlove was the clear winner of the People’s Choice Veggie creature contest with 34 votes. Her entry was a zuchinni/sunflower creation resembling a hula dancer. Congratulations Heidi! Caroline Clough’s tomato/cucumber entry received 11 votes and her watermelon entry received[…]
Just a reminder to enter the Grayson LandCare(GLC) pest and beneficial bug photography contest. The last day to submit entries is Wednesday September 16th. The winners will be announced via Zoom during the regular monthly GLC meeting Monday September 21 at 7pm. Winners will also be posted on the GLC and IFM facebook pages, webpages[…]
We miss our contests! So we are announcing 2 contests for August: the Monster Tomato contest and a new Veggie Creature contest. IFM is taking the Monster Tomato contest online. The rules are the same: it doesn’t have to be pretty or ripe, just BIG and grown by you. To enter, take a picture of[…]
The Farmers Market will be back to Town Park tomorrow, Friday November 29 from 11 am to 2 pm! If you can’t make it, you’ll have a 2nd chance Saturday December 7 also from 11 am to 2pm. We’ve invited area artisans to join us just in time for your holiday shopping. Celebrate the beginning[…]
There is still plenty of time to enter the Grayson County Fair.! It’s August 10 from 9am to 3pm and the Youth Livestock show begins on Friday August 9 from 5-8pm and again during the Fair from 9-3pm on August 10. If you have poultry, goats, beef or diary cows or sheep you’d like to[…]
The highlight of JAM Day is a performance by the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) from 11am to noon. There is still time to make jam and enter the new jam contest! The People’s Choice jam contest is sponsored by Log Jam who will be demonstrating their portable sawmill during the regular Market from 9am to[…]
The Grayson County Fair will be held Saturday August 10 from 9am to 3 pm at Bottomley’s Farm and Evergreens in Elk Creek. The Youth Livestock will begin Friday August 9 at 6pm. at the same location. It will continue Saturday August 10 from 9am to 3 pm. The Fair has added several new competitions[…]