Sports and Outdoors

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Hoosier Homestead Gathering Details Announced for Salamonie Reservoir

The Hoosier Homestead Gathering will be held April 30 and May 1 on Indiana’s Salamonie Reservoir. The gathering offers the public an opportunity to investigate how to live a more "self-sustaining" lifestyle.

Vendors and Discussion Tables at the event both days:
  • Gardening: Victory Acres
  • Kettle Corn: LaFontaine Lions Club
  • Walking Tacos: American Heritage Girls
  • Glycerin Soap
  • Egg Testing: Indiana State Poultry Association
  • Leave No Trace: Boy Scout Troop 429
  • Natural Beauty / Cleaning
  • Weaving
  • Incubating Eggs at Home
  • Home Food Preserving
  • Quilting
  • Dutch Oven Cooking
  • Maple Syrup Conversations
  • Wool and other Sheep Products
  • Old-fashioned Games for Kids and the Young at Heart
  • Candle Dipping: American Heritage Girls
Saturday, April 30:
  • 11 a.m. Planting Trees and Shrubs for wind breaks, food and shade
  • 12:30 p.m. - Roll Farms, Milk Goat demo
  • 1 p.m. - Victory Acres: Urban Gardening
  • 2 p.m. - Edible Wildflower presentation
  • 2 p.m. - Grid-tied Solar Energy Presentation
  • 3 p.m. - Victory Acres: Urban Gardening
  • 4 p.m. - Chicken Butchering demo
  • 5 p.m. – Canning Demonstration

Sunday, May 1
  • 11 a.m. – Planting Trees and Shrubs for wind breaks, food and shade
  • 12:30 p.m. - Roll Farms, Milk Goats demo
  • 1 p.m. - Chicken Butchering demo
  • 2 p.m. – Cheese Making Demo
  • 2 p.m. Rotational Grazing Presentation
  • 3 p.m. Lawn Management Presentation
  • 4 p.m. Weaving Rag Rugs

The event runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m to 5 p.m. Sunday. There is a $3-per-person fee. All events are held in the Salamonie Interpretive Center and nearby large tents.

For more information, contact Upper Wabash Interpretive Services at (260) 468-2127 or email lfager@dnr.in.gov. Gate fees apply to enter the property: $5 per Indiana vehicle and $7 for out-of-state vehicles. Annual entrance permits also available at the Lost Bridge West State Recreation Area off of Ind. 105 in western Huntington County.

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