Tickets for the event are $10 and can be purchased at any of the nine stops on the tour, as well as in a tent at the southeast corner of Monument Square in downtown Urbana.
Each of the sites will include a display of quilts. There will also be demonstrations of antique farm machinery, artists and vendors, petting zoos, locally grown food and more.
Stops this year will include:
• Johnson’s Maple Sugar Camp, 7012 Stevenson Road, Cable, which will include a tour of the farm and live music Saturday.
• Robert Rothschild Farm, 3143 E. U.S. 36 in Urbana, which will offer product tastings and ice cream sundaes featuring its toppings.
• Stan-Mar-Dale Farm, 5077 S. Kennard Road, Urbana, a dairy farm that has operated for more than a century.
• Mac-A-Cheek Castle, 10051 Champaign County Road 47, West Liberty, one of two historic buildings known as the Piatt Castles.
• Woodruff’s Cambrian Farm, 6721 E. U.S. 36, Cable, which will include tours of the farm’s two historic barns.
• The Mad River Farm Market, 7538 N. U.S. 68, Urbana, which will offer tastings of locally made food, a petting zoo and other children’s activities.
• The Curt and Ginger Huhn barn, 6108 Black Road, Cable, a restored barn built in 1830.
• The Mike and Donna Black Barn, 7793 Brush lake Road, North Lewisburg, which will include a local farmer’s market and antique farm equipment.
• Freshwater Farms of Ohio, 2624 N. U.S. 68, Urbana, Ohio’s largest indoor fish hatchery.
More information
Residents are asked to call the Champaign County Visitor’s Bureau at (877) 873-5764 or visit champaigncountybarns.com.
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