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From then to Now: A History of Our Fall Market

As we roll into our fifth year of Fall Market I can’t help but look back at how much we’ve grown and changed throughout the years, but also how so many things that were there that first year are still part of market every year.

While most people think of our first fall market as the one in 2020, 2019 was actually our first year.

At the time, Daniel and I (Danielle) were building our house, so we were living in my farm office—a 10x12 room—in the white building known for housing the cool off area during the heat of a market day.

I planned this event a month before, which consisted of creating a Facebook page and finding three vendors, Dalisha’s Desserts, Ruby Branch Farms and Edge Brothers Farm to participate. I had a little concession stand on the porch, set up a couple of yard games in the parking lot and Daniel did chicken house tours/hay rides. We had maybe 70 people come, the event brought in $200 which did not breakeven for what I had invested into it …and I was THRILLED with the results.

Chicken House Tours the very first year.

Ruby Branch Farms, they’ve been with us every year of market.

Dalisha’s Desserts

2020 was our first big year. Everyone had been cooped up all year and we ready to get out, have fun and support local. We grew to 30 vendors that year. I hired Kelley James Event to help me better orchestrate and grow the market, and gave Daniel the heads up “Hey, I think this year might be a whole lot bigger than last year.”

He wasn’t seeing the online engagement I was seeing, so he expected a 2019 crowd. So when car after car started rolling the day of 2020 market he was a little stressed about finding places to park all of them. Daniel wasn’t the only one who wasn’t mentally prepared for the crowd surge we experienced in 2020. Dakota Edge of Edge Brothers Farms sold out of pumpkins within the first hour and had to put in an SOS to his mom to bring more pumpkins and to come help check people out.

Again, as you might imagine, I was THRILLED at the end of the day. Daniel, however, had no energy left to spare by the time the day was over. 😂

We have continued to grow in the years that have followed. 2021 we had 50 vendors, better parking, more games, a tented eating area and the band played the entire event. 2022 we grew to 70 vendors, and even more efficient parking system, more volunteers behind the scenes to help things run smoother and an entire food court.

Rolling into 2023, I feel we’ve proven that we can host an event in the literal middle of nowhere and people will show up (for which I am so, so grateful to all of you that do) so, this year, our focus is more about fine tuning what we have grown Fall Market into. To me, that looks like focusing more on the aesthetics of the event, adding more family fun aspects, and making sure we are providing amenities that make both our vendors and guests comfortable.

When I say over and over, “we are so excited to welcome you back to the farm again this year,” it’s something I truly mean. We love getting to open our doors to the community this way every year and love getting to be a part of the many traditions I’ve witnessed come to be as a result of this event!

Here’s to another year of growth! We’ll see you September 30th!

Follow the event page HERE to stay up-to-date on all things Fall Market!

2023 FALL MARKET VENDOR LIST – YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS!

We’re wowed at the stellar vendor lineup we have for the 2023 Fall Market! We’re bringing you unique styles from a ton of super creative small business owners.

Take a look at what you can expect to see in just a couple of short months. Stay tuned as we add more talented vendors to this list.

All About Cowgirls

Anniebea Designs

Blue House Fragrances

Blue Laundry Co.

Bonnie Rae Boutique

Brew Bridge

Charlie’s Bandanas

Confetti Boutique

Cup of Hope

Curbside Kitchenette

Daviess Co. Cattlemen's Association

Davis Landscaping/Facepainting

Debbie’s Customized Jewelry

Designs by Donna

Designs by Lauren

Donna's Dream Creations

Doozie Doez

DustyMae Treats

Edge Brothers Farms

Fleners MSC

Formation Clay

Forston Farms

French Ridge Pottery

GB Hat Bar

Hayden Farms/D2 Meats

Hello Pop

Home Goods by Kathie

Homestead on the Hill

Janice Marie

JP Essentials // Wellness in a Bottle

Kahawa Java

Lemon + Daisy Stitch

Lure Smoke Shack

Made With Love

Mercantile Treats

Midnight Momma Sweets

My Buddy Bear & Me Mobile

Navy Leaf Co.

No Whey

Oh Sew Blessed

Page + Co.

PG Wood Designs

Phoenix Fire Stones

R&L Metalworks

Red Barn Blooms

Redeemed Heritage Farm

Roby's Honey

Romy’s Mud n Metal

Ruby Branch Farms

Sammy J Studio

Sew Susan

Slickback BBQ

Squeeze-E's Lemonade

Stoney Grove Farm

Sweet B's Bakery

The Little Wood Shack

The Long Dog

The Purple Peony Boutique

Tong Creations

Treasure Plant-It

Two Twisted Sisters

Two Mothers

Join us on Saturday, September 30th from 11AM-4PM at Hayden Farms located at 1195 New Cut Road, Whitesville, KY.

Parking is $10 per car. Entrance is free.

Please bring cash to shop with our vendors, our cell service is not great on the farm for electronic transactions.

Follow the event page HERE to stay up-to-date on all things Fall Market!

A look back at Previous Fall Markets

Danielle, Emily, and the guys on the farm, but right now, mainly Danielle and Emily are working fervently behind the scenes to prepare for our annual fall market on the farm. It might surprise you the amount of prep, planning, and tiny details that go into pulling off this event each year.

Despite all the work, it’s an event all of us look forward to and we love getting to fine-tune and improve it each year. It’s hard to believe we’re rolling into year five, but here we are.

Today, we’re looking back at a few pictures of last year’s event and it has us so excited to welcome everyone back on the farm for the 2023 Fall Market in just a couple of short months!

We hope you’ll join us. Come and grab lunch or dinner from a variety of food trucks and vendors. Shop handmade gifts, apparel, and fall home decor, load your arms with produce from local farms, hitch a hay ride and see a chicken house tour, walk the nature trail, play yard games, and snap some pics at our insta worthy photo ops. We’re adding new elements for 2023 and we can’t wait to hear what you all think!

Join us on Saturday, September 30th from 11AM-4PM at Hayden Farms located at 1195 New Cut Road, Whitesville, KY.

Parking is $10 per car. Entrance is free.

Follow the event page HERE to stay up-to-date on all things Fall Market!

Throwback Thursday — The Journey to New

We broke ground on our new state-of-the-art chicken barns the summer of 2017. Writing ‘2017’ feels so long ago, but all of us on the farm agree, life has been a whirlwind since then. It wasn’t until the beginning of 2019 that the four of us started to feel like we could exhale again.

This project has been nothing short of amazing, just the opportunity to build four more chicken houses was/is a big deal for the farm, but adding in the viewing room and education building, opening the farm for tours and navigating the logistics of creating events and community presence.

*cue head spinning*

But hey, here we are in 2019, we made it, we survived all the change a year and a half could bring and literally doubling the farm’s production.

It’s funny, the photos you’re about to see, I (Danielle) took, but I’m not the one who added them to this post. Our web designer—Rural Gone Urban—threw these in here as a blog post placeholder back in the fall of 2017. I had forgotten they were there until earlier this week when I published the “Scheduling a Tour” post.

Even if it was just a placeholder, I’m so glad she did, seeing the farm back in the beginning of construction and reliving those emotions was fun, exciting and bittersweet. “hey we survived,” “oh, I forgot what that spot looked like before big red barns sat on top of the hill,” and Oliver, passed through my head.

Oliver, our Scottish Terrier, crossed the rainbow bridge this January, and even though he was the most unlikely farm dog, he had the biggest heart for it. Nothing brought that dog more joy than getting to ride in the back of the truck, bound along beside us while checking cows and hearing the words “load up” into the Ranger for all the farm chores he knew deep in his heart he was born to assist with.

We (Daniel and Danielle) miss him terribly, but it made my heart happy to see him in these photos are part of our building process.

Oliver and I, checking on the progress after the dirt work equipment moved to the farm to start, July 2017.

You may have driven on or seen the driveway and parking lot, but maybe never thought about what it takes to install something of that scale. Because Kentucky is such a rainy state and anything BUT flat terrain, the chicken house driveway was one of the first things that had to be created.

It took somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 dump trucks to put down enough gravel for the driveway and parking lot.

DaniSquared’s Paw Patrol checking on dirt work progress late July 2017. Back when Cowdog Lily was still a puppy.

Jumping for joy, we have a roof on before the rainy season, October 2017. In both the gravel photo and this one it was pouring rain. We were incredibly lucky we started the project when we did and thankfully didn’t get held up by weather much.

Our first flock was placed in these houses March 14, 2018. Just shy of one year ago.

Scheduling a Tour & What to Expect

When Daniel and I (Danielle) dreamed of hosting farm tours, we hoped it would be something people wanted, but wow, have our expectations been exceeded. The past two years have been a blur of planning, building and just trying to keep our head above water, we didn’t get much time to share the whats and how-to’s online.

A little over six months since our Viewing Room Ribbon Cutting event, we’ve seen guests from five different countries and nine (and counting) different states. Our goal to keep tours around twice a month has, at times, fallen to twice a week and we just feel all the feelings of the cliche #blessed.

Now that some time has past and we have a little better idea what we’re doing around here, here are some things we want you to know about Hayden Farm’s Tours!

Scheduling A Tour

You want to come see what life is like for a commercial poultry farm? AWESOME! We’re SO excited to meet you!!! The absolute first thing to do is fill out the contact form on this website and send us a message. Knowing approximately how many people are in your group, and a little about yourselves or your group will help us the most in figuring how much time you’ll need on the farm when looking at the calendar.

Here’s what we need you to keep in mind though!

We raise broiler chickens. Broilers are meat birds, due to this we do not have birds on our farm 365. In fact, there are two to three weeks between each flock, our houses are empty, and unless you just want to see the super exciting (sarcasm) clean out process—Hey, we’ll even let you spray off fans or clean windows for the experience 😉—then we’ll need to make sure we have birds for your tour.

As any of the many groups who have already hung out on the farm will tell you, this really isn’t a big deal, we just ask that you keep that little tidbit in mind when looking at dates with us.

Are you ready to get your name on our tour list? You are?! Hooray!! Send me (Danielle) a message here: Visit The Farm

We’re happy to accommodate groups of all sizes.

What to Expect

Okay, so you’ve sent me a message, we’ve got you scheduled on the calendar, so what can expect when you visit?

• To ask lots of questions. And to have those questions answered.

• Chickens. Lots and lots of chickens.

• Cattle. If you’re lucky and it’s calving season, you’ll be treated to a level-up experience of seeing little calves playing in the pastures.

• To see a multi-generation family farm, that cares deeply about conserving and protecting the environment and the health and well-being of our livestock.

• Modern Agriculture

• To be given the resources to form your own opinions based on real life experience instead of just online.

• And most importantly… to have a great time.

When we say we’re excited to meet you, that isn’t just text. We are genuinely excited to meet and get to know each person who steps on our farm. We want to not only provide you with a one-of-a-kind experience but to become a personal animal agriculture resource to you.

So come meet our family!