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• 2025 Forum & Annual Meeting

  • When
    July 12, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Beck's Hybrids, 6767 E 276th St, Atlanta, IN 46031
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  Mark your calendar now to get together with barn owners and enthusiasts to discuss saving Indiana's heritage barns. Make plans to join us for another great Forum and Annual Meeting in July!

  The 2025 Indiana Barn Foundation Forum and Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, July 12th from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Beck's Hybrids in Atlanta, Hamilton County, Indiana. The program will include words from Beck's Hybrids CEO, Sonny Beck, an introduction of IBF's new executive director, Christine Page, and a field trip to Fieldgate Farm in nearby Sheridan. Following lunch, attendees will be invited to gather onsite at Fieldgate Farm for a tour given by the owners. In 2020, the circa 1850 house and turn-of-the-century barn of the Baker-Johnson-Pickett Farm were saved from demolition for a road project through a partnership between Indiana Landmarks and the Indiana Department of Transportation. Learn about the documentation and reconstruction of the buildings at their new location, while visiting the Highland cows and other animals that call the boutique farm home. Learn more about the farm at these links: https://www.indianalandmarks.org/2025/02/reconstructing-historic-hamilton-county-farmstead/ and https://www.fieldgatefarm.com/about 

  Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with continental breakfast. Lunch is included in the registration fee of $25 per person. Non-members of the Indiana Barn Foundation are welcome to attend. For more information, please email indianabarnfoundation@gmail.com. The morning portion of of the event will be at 6767 E 276th St., Atlanta, IN. Thank you to Beck's Hybrids for hosting the meeting.

  
  

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• 2025 Barn Tour of LaGrange County

  • When
    September 13, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    LaGrange County

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  Mark your calendars for the 2025 Indiana Barn Foundation barn tour! This year it will be held in LaGrange County on Saturday, September 13^th from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The self-guided driving tour will feature nine barn locations including two Amish homesteads, a honey farm, a Percheron horse barn, and a Bison ranch.
  

  The day-of tour headquarters at Pretty Valley Barn, one of the barns on the tour, will feature selfie stands, food trucks and a book signing from 10 a.m. to Noon by Cindy Ladage, local author of Farm Girl Adventures. Locations along the route will have portable restrooms and some will have additional food for sale. The local organizing committee have additional events planned for both Friday and Saturday along with special lodging rates for those interested in planning a weekend get-away.

  Advance barn tour tickets are $15 for IBF members or $20 for non-members. Children 16 and under are free. Tickets may be purchased online until 5 p.m. on September 12^th at the member/non-member price. Tickets the day of the tour will be $20 for all and available in-person at Pretty Valley Barn, 2685 S 950 E, LaGrange, IN, which will serve as the day-of tour headquarters. Those who pre-register should start their tour with a stop by the barn to pick up maps, wrist band tickets, and collectible stickers. 

  Thank you to LaGrange County Convention and Visitors Bureau and LaGrange County Economic Development Corporation for planning and promotion of this year's barn tour. 

          

  

  
  

  For details about the additional events below, please contact VisitShipshewana.org: Off the Beaten Path and Barn Quilt Tour—FREE self guided; Anytime during all daylight hours; https://visitshipshewana.org/barn-quilt-trail/ Straw Bale Art Trail and Autumn Adventures in the Heart of Amish Country—free and viewable during all daylight hours. Additional information can be found at: https://visitshipshewana.org/autumn-adventures/ Stutzman Dairy Farm Guided Tour, Friday, September 12th at 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or 7 - 8:30 p.m., and Saturday, September 13th at 7 - 8:30 p.m.--$15 per adult, Children 4-12, $10, 3 and under free. Reservations required by calling 260-768-3236, https://visitshipshewana.org/listings/stutzman-dairy-farm/ Brown Swiss Dairy Farm Historic Barn Open House, Friday, September 12th from Noon - 4 p.m., 8690 W 250 N, Shipshewana (donations accepted onsite) Painting Stories: A Barn Quilt Making Workshop, Friday, September 12th from 2 - 4 p.m.--$35 per person (additional blank MDO squares will be available for purchase on site) Registrations in advance are required by contacting Class instructor, Karen Weinland at 260-499-1047 or by emailing garden diva52@hotmail.com Cutoff date: August 13, 2025 The Everly Brothers Experience at the Blue Gate Music Hall, Friday, September 12th and Saturday, September 13th at 7 p.m.—Advance Reservations Required by selecting seats and booking online at: https://www.thebluegate.com/shipshewana/blue-gate-theatre/event/everly-brothers-experience?calendar=true Yacht Rock Revue-Yacht Rock Forever Tour, Saturday, September 13th at 7:30 p.m.—Advance reservations to select seats at: https://www.thebluegate.com/shipshewana/blue-gate-theatre/event/yacht-rock-revue For lodging specials at the Farmstead Inn or the Van Buren Hotel at Shipshewana, contact VisitShipshewana.org for details.

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