Category: Barns
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Slate Run Living Historical Farm is a slice of the 1880s
When my kids were growing up in the 1990s, Slate Run Living Historical Farm was a great place to take them to let them experience a slice of old-fashioned living. And you know what? It still is a great place.
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McDonald’s Greenhouse & Corn Maze offers fall fun
McDonald’s Greenhouse & Corn Maze near Zanesville is a great place to bring the family for a traditional fall fun experience.
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Make some memories this fall at Lynd Fruit Farm and other fun places
Lynd Fruit Farm and other u-pick farms and farm markets offer enjoyable family experiences, year after year.
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Earth Day 2024: Emphasis on reducing plastic packaging waste
This barn at Hankinson Farms near Alexandria, Ohio, features an “Everyday is Earth Day” message. The barn is located along SR 161/37 between Alexandria and Granville. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten Monday, April 22, is Earth Day, a day that is set aside to consider ways and take action to make our world greener…
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Round barns are a rare breed in Buckeye State
The Round Cattle Barn, built in 1908 at the Fairfield County Fairgrounds in Lancaster. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten There are still lots of barns in Ohio, but not many of them are round. Why would a farmer want a round barn, anyway, you might ask? I’m glad you asked. Many people think round…
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Algonquin Mill is focal point of annual festival
Algonquin Mill in Carrollton was built around 1826. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten Algonquin Mill, built about 1826, is the focal point of the Algonquin Mill Fall Festival held each October. The mill was named for an Indian encampment once located near the settlement now known as Petersburg. The mill replaced an earlier mill…
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Mail Pouch barns are an iconic part of Ohio’s landscape
By Ken Drenten This Mail Pouch barn, photographed in 2007, fell into disrepair and was demolished within several years. It was located at US 22 and SR 204 in Perry County. (Credit: Ken Drenten) The Mail Pouch Tobacco barn is an iconic part of the American landscape, but how did it become so, and why?…
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Pumpkin patches, fruit farms are open for fall family fun
By Ken Drenten There’s family fun in the fall at Ohio’s many farm markets — pumpkin patches, hayrides, apple picking and much more. (Credit: Ken Drenten) Looking for family fun in the autumn? Take the family to a farm market or farm that has pick-your-own apples and pumpkins and other activities. Here’s a list of…
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Take a second look at Ohio’s barns before they disappear
Barn painter Scott Hagan is shown painting a barn at Malabar Farm State Park as part of the original Bicentennial Ohio Barn program. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten Barns are my kind of my shy first love — the kind you’re afraid to admit, but there it is. There is a rustic, honest, gritty,…
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Malabar Farm sustains lifelong dream of Louis Bromfield
The Main Barn at Malabar Farm. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten Malabar Farm State Park is no ordinary farm. Located just east of Mansfield, the farm is the legacy of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who made his dreams come true. Louis Bromfield, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Early Autumn in 1926, established the…
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