Water Color Demonstration at Centerville Marketplace Stop #2
Artist Janet Hopkins will demonstrate her water color painting skills during the Arts & Ag Tour at The Centerville Marketplace (Stop #2) May 24th-May 25th. Korie Cochran, owner of the Marketplace where Jan’s paintings are sold is excited that her patrons will get to observe such a talented artist at work during the Tour.
A native of West Virginia, Hopkins has completed more than 250 commissioned works for clients in her 3o-year plus career and has been painting in the Centerville area for more than a decade. She plans to display a number of paintings during the Tour that showcase Hickman County.
Order your 2013 Arts & Ag Tour “I ❤ Back Roads” T-Shirts NOW!
The Tour is coming up in just 10 days and you could have your very own 2013 Arts & Ag Tour “I ❤ Back Roads” t-shirt if you order NOW! T-shirts are $20 each (price includes tax) and will be available for pick up on May 23rd (and during the Tour on May 24th and 25th) at Wild Duck Soup Emporium on the Centerville square.
These are All-American Tees: 100% made in the USA from the cotton, to the fabric manufacturing, to the finished tee. All-American Tees help create and sustain jobs right here in America. Made of 100% cotton. Sizes available are adult small through 3X.
Please email your t-shirt order with quantities and sizes to Vicki at VickiMoore@chromatics.com. Upon receiving your email, Vicki will send you an order confirmation and payment details. Order yours today – supplies are limited!
Vicki Moore is the amazing Arts & Ag volunteer facilitating the t-shirt creation for us. She will also be tending to the Arts & Ag info booth which will be located at stop #23 with Turnbull Farms where you can pick your own flower bouquet as well as Krusa Guitars where you can see (and hear) instrumental works of art by luthier Kipp Krusa. THANK YOU, VICKI!
Arts & Ag Merchandise for Sale!
GOODIES are HERE! Maps available NOW at Wild Duck Soup Emporium on the Centerville square. Also available for purchase are other Arts & Ag souvenirs like fans and bumper stickers! Stay tuned for more…
Pinewood Farms Features The Great Toyzini at Stop #25
This is a Piney River bottle nose paddle fish. This one will be on display during the Arts & Ag Tour May 25th at Pinewood Farms. She is papier mâché and made by Luann and Randy Toy. Randy Toy aka The Great Toyzini will be our featured artist during the Tour. Also at Pinewood Farms, you can enjoy garden tours, healthy cooking demonstrations, fresh produce, plants, bluebird houses and photography for sale.
Are you interested in arts and crafts, organic farming, grass-fed beef, beekeeping, beautiful gardens, handmade guitars, furniture and soaps, quilts, yummy food, live music, and/or beautiful countryside and good times? Then plan to explore the backroads of Hickman County during the Arts & Ag Tour, May 24-25. Download this self-guided tour map to see all the fun you can have. Hickman County is southwest of Nashville, along I-40 at exits 148, 152, 163, and 172 off I-40…or straight out Highway 100 from Nashville.
Download your free map here: http://artsandagtour.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/arts-ag-tour-maps-available-now-for-free-download/
Leegacy Farm ~ Tour Stop # 17
Leegacy Farm was a dream and a prayer long before it became a reality.
As our family grew over the years, we longed to go back to a farm, believing it to be a wonderful place to raise a family and believing that children benefit greatly from learning the value of hard work, good work ethic and serving others, fresh air and lots of sunshine, time working together as a family, simple pleasures, and time to think, pray, play, create, read, study, and enjoy God’s creation.
The early goal was that of being able to learn to raise enough food for our family, some to share, and eventually to be able to produce enough to make available to others who also wish to feed their families food of good quality and more locally and sustainably grown.
In an effort to bloom where planted and with much to learn, our family of fifteen practiced on a small acreage in our home state of Alabama with hopes of more opportunities in the future and of eventually working a small and diversified family farm together.
Gradually a few milk cows were acquired along with a pair of work horses, goats, and some egg and meat chickens. Vegetables, herbs, and corn for cornmeal and grits were grown and also sorghum which was to be made into syrup and also used as the sweetener in our bread recipe. Daily happenings included trying to learn all that we could from others and skills needed to shorten the grocery list.
But in April of 2011, many things changed. Tornadoes ravaged many parts of our former state and our community, we were now a family of fourteen, and we would need to re-build or relocate.
But the dream of farming as a family lived on. While still in temporary housing and after about eight months of much prayer and recovering, it was decided that we would relocate to a home already built and land ready to be farmed. And that’s how we ended up here in Tennessee sixteen months ago and on what we call Leegacy Farm.
We still have much to learn and much to do, but we’re very grateful for new beginnings and mercies, and we’re currently growing pork, chicken, rabbits, sheep, milk cows, and goats (for soap-making).
Plants have just been brought out of the hoop house and placed in the garden beds, and corn and sorghum will be planted in late May and with Jim and Jack, Jordan’s Percheron horses, doing the plowing of the beautiful Tennessee soil.
We continue to try and learn more and more about butter making and cheeses and such. So please come on by and take a turn at churning or offer tips you may be willing to share.
There are kid goats available for sale and playing in the fields and bunny rabbits (meat and pet) for petting or purchase. Heirloom non-gmo corn is available to be ground into cornmeal and there are the cows to be milked. Also, there will be crafts, wagon rides, a little farm store containing many organic products, dry goods, wood items, soaps, aprons and other gift items. And plenty of homemade treats: lemonade, breads, herb or honey butters, jams, foods, and fried pies JUST like grandma used to make!
And while you’re sitting by the bubbling stream and possibly sipping lemonade, spring water or a delicious spritzer or Kumbucha tea, enjoy some beautiful toetapping tunes provided by the West Ladies or some melodious and elegant stringed music provided by Eleganza. AND…both groups will also have tables set up and including many of their own various crafts, CD’s and products!
As you plan your route and enjoy visiting many of the beautiful farms and businesses here in Hickman County, we do hope you can make it out to Leegacy Farm. And if you’d like to be signed up for future emails making you aware as various meats, dairy, produce, crafts and other store items become available, don’t forget to leave your contact information before leaving the farm! Or email us at: jordan@leegacyfarm.com. We are still working on a website, but you may visit our family blog at: a baker’s dozen barnhouse news.
Blessings,
The Lee Family
“A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.” ~ Wendell Berry
Browns Giftshop Revival Jam for Arts & Ag
The members of Browns Giftshop Revival have come together through a love of music. This becomes evident as each song ends with smiles and laughter. Not necessarily attempting to perfect each effort but playing the notes and beats that feel good and right. It is in this spirit that they perform original songs, along with a few old favorites, in an effort to share this love. Influence and inspiration comes from everywhere. A short list of musical influences follows. Irving Berlin, Johnny Cash, James Taylor, Tiny Tim, Bach and Beethoven, Richard Thompson, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, Little Walter, John Peters, The Allman Brothers, Kevin Moore, Gabby Pahinui, and Neil Young are just a small example, not to mention more than a few church hymns. From Jersey to Georgia and England to Alabama with some roots right here in Hickman County Tennessee, music has always brought people together. So come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now. Join us for the Arts & Ag Tour this Memorial Day weekend. We’ll be playing at the Grinders Switch Winery on Saturday at 1:00 and 3:00pm and then we’ll be jammin’ on the Old Courthouse Lawn beginning at 5:00pm.Bernard Community Center Joins the Arts & Ag Tour
BERNARD COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. is a non-profit corporation under the provisions of TCA Section 48.1-601 since October 27, 2001. The principal office is the O.H. Bernard School building that was purchased by the corporation September 14, 2006 by the securing of a bank loan by the officers. (picture attached)
The school building is an important part of the African American history of Hickman County. The first O.H. Bernard School came into existence in 1930 as a result of the philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald (president of Sears Roebuck & Co.) of Chicago and Booker T. Washington of Alabama working together from a “Rosenwald Fund” who sought to improve the Black educational opportunities in the south. The basic idea was a matching grant approach with contributions from the black community, the county school board, and Rosenwald funds. Nearly 5000 schools were built in the south and southwest. That 3 class room building was destroyed by fire in 1956.
The present O.H. Bernard School was erected in 1956-1957. Grades 1-12 were taught at the school until 1969. After 1969 it became a kindergarten and special education school for Centerville. It closed in 1984. Prior to the purchase by the corporation the building had been a manufacturing and storage facility, then abandoned, and in need of major repair.
The chief objective of BERNARD COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. is the renovation of the facilities (gymnasium and school building) to serve as a community center. It is our vision to offer services that will transform life for the better for citizens of Hickman County.
Our challenge at Bernard is a great one. We have ongoing fundraisers to eliminate the bank note. With the help of community volunteered labor, grants, and donations, we have several rooms renovated and now in use. The Bernard Community Center has been the location for various community events: memorial and holiday celebrations, school reunions, theater plays, community business meetings, exercise classes, neighborhood watch and safety classes, sewing classes, benefit fundraisers and other functions.
This year as a stop on the 2013 Arts and Ag Tour we are showcasing beautiful home-made quilts. The quilts were made at Bernard by women of Hickman County in classes taught by Ruth Ann Carathers.
While here we invite you to tour the building to see the progress made and what we are attempting to achieve.
Belle Springs Farm Raw Cow’s Milk & More (Stop #19)
Belle Springs Farm was established about 3 years ago when our family moved here to Coble from our family farm in a tiny place called Viola, TN. Now with more space to spread out on, we’re able to expand our farming endeavors.
Our primary focus is on our little herd of Jersey cows. Those girls provide us with endless entertainment, pet-like companionship, and lots of delicious raw milk. With them, we do a herd-share operation – which means that you buy a share in our herd of Jerseys, and own a part of what they produce. In the state of Tennessee, this is currently the only legal way to acquire raw milk for human consumption. So, our shareholders sign the contract, buy the share(s), and pay us for our work on their herd. Though, admittedly, not the simplest way of getting milk, it has been well worth it! We have thoroughly enjoyed meeting our shareholders, getting to know them, and bottling milk specifically for them.
There are several other projects going on here, as well. We presently own several black cows for beef, and a couple of Large Black sows. As for personal pets, we own one cat (Dumplin’); a brilliant, energetic, young border collie (Sally Ann); and a fun, incredibly loyal blue heeler/Australian shepherd mix (Trapper). Trapper probably provides more entertainment on a regular basis than all the other animals combined.
What about non-animal adventures? Well, we’ve recently been enjoying some fresh shiitake mushrooms from our own logs, just across the creek behind the house. And, we are constantly brainstorming lots of ideas for what else we can do. We are Stop #19 on the Arts & Ag Tour this year. So come on by, tour the farm, and learn about the benefits of raw milk
You can also visit our website at www.bellespringsfarm.com.
Written By Kyle Bradshaw
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