The Baker Creek Spring Planting & Heritage Festival With ** Lots of Pictures

Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 09:33

It has been a whole week already since we were at the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Spring Festival. We went both days and had a great time. It was fantastic! We took several extra days and made a family vacation out of it. We also visited the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home & Museum, a real treat for we Little House fans! We ate at The home of the "Throwed Rolls", Lambert's restaurant, and spent a wonderful afternoon at the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Maybe Laura or Mary will post about these later.

This post is about the Baker Creek Spring Festival, it is pretty hard to explain so I will show it to you instead. Following are many pictures taken at the festival.

There were lots of organic  farms selling plants as well as other great vendors:

In addition to all of the booths, they had great professional garden speakers giving talks all day in the speakers barn. When I was in there, I was too busy listening to take pictures. My favorite speaker was Len Pense. The day after the festival, we visited him at his farm to see his revolutionary vegetable garden system. I will be writing an entire post about him soon.

There were at least three areas with fantastic live music and entertainment going on constantly. This was Mary and Laura's favorite part of the festival.

The young man dressed in yellow in the above picture is Jere Gettles, owner of  Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. He started his seed company as a teenager while being homeschooled - what an inspiration!

In addition to running Baker Creek Seeds, he built the "Town of Bakersville" to have a place to host his garden festivals. These buildings were really neat.

They have also begun construction on a grist mill.  

Of course the most important building at Bakersville is the Baker Creek Seed Store where you can get seeds of hundreds (maybe thousands) of common or highly unusual top quality heirloom varieties!

I only bought a dozen or so seed packets because I had already ordered from Baker Creek by mail. Next year maybe I'll go back to the festival and buy all of my seeds there instead of by mail. I strongly recommend any serious gardener to do the same. If you don't want to wait a whole year to visit Baker Creek, they have another big festival in August and smaller ones every month.

I loved our trip to Baker Creek. In my next post I will let you know about some of the cool things I bought at the festival and about some of the people I met. And then I have to give a big update on our gardens here in Kentucky. I have lots of pictures to show. We have been harvesting lettuce and other salad greens. The garlic, potato onions, broccoli, cabbage, potatoes, peas and early tomatoes are doing really well. Tonight Laura and Mary helped me plant peppers and beans and Ma helped with the weeding. We are now in the busy gardening season. Isn't it great?

Many blessings,

Pa

WOW!

Posted by Jonash2004 on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 12:56 - Link

What a neat place to be able to visit! I'm drooling over all of the seeds. And the baby goats - we had goats when I was a little girl!

That looks better than a "country" fair - those are so commericialized these days!

Thanks for the comment on my blog. I'm not sure what it is about my hair, but it seems like the ends have always frayed incredibly fast - it's not just a split end (or endS) but 7, 8, 10 or more spits up the shaft of hair. :( I think it needed more moisture to be "normal"! I bet that is how Roxy was going to cut my hair. :( She was so sweet....

Thanks for stopping by! That looked like such a fun event! :)

Ashley

How fun!

Posted by steffanie on Monday, June 23, 2008 at 07:51 - Link

Wow, that looks like so much fun. I really like Baker's Creek for seeds, I didn't know they did a festival!