Innovative Farmers of Ohio

Each year IFO partners with OEFFA and the OSU Sustainable Agriculture Team to invite farmers and consumers to visit farms, research centers, and producer facilities where sustainable farming practices can be observed and tasted.

Saturday, July 31   12-4 pm

Lucky Penny Creamery

632 Temple Ave. Kent, OH

330-572-7550 abbe@luckypennyfarm.com

Enjoy delicious, freshly made goat cheese at the Lucky Penny Creamery in Kent, OH.  This is not a farm tour.  Lucky Penny Creamery specializes in crafting nutritious goat cheeses, produced with only the highest quality milk using no artificial preservatives.   True to artisanal standards, they craft the goat cheese by hand in small batches.  Lucky Penny Creamery cheeses are sold across Ohio at farmers markets, CSA’s, gourmet speciality stores, and restaurants.

This value-added processing facility is an important connector from “farm to table” and an example of entrepreneurial agriculture as well as urban and rural economic development.

Join dairy goat farmers Abbe & Anderson Turner at Lucky Penny Creamery, 632 Temple Ave. Kent, Ohio on Saturday, July 31, from 12-4 to learn about cheesemaking using milk from Ohio’s goat dairies.  Tour the facility and taste Ohio cheeses at the creamery retail store.  

Wednesday, August 18   1-4 pm

 Farming Education, Stratford Ecological Center

3083 Liberty Rd., Delaware, OH

740-363-2548

Stratford Ecological Center, is a teaching, working organic farm that includes walking trails, a high tunnel, straw shed, raised beds, sugar shack, and pastures with cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs.

Join Jeff Dickinson, farm manager, for this very interesting and diverse tour.

Saturday, August 28  1:30-4:30 pm

Conservation Farming–Bargar Farm and Barn

7417 Township Rd 93, Woodville, OH

740-369-8270

The Bargar Farm was established in the 1850’s as a diversified family farm.  When June took possession of the farm in 2004, it included seven acres with a barn, woodlots, a stream, and 106 acres of tillable land.  Farmers Josh and Jeremy Gerwin will talk about their practices of no-till, cover crops, and the USDA’s Conservation Stewardship Program.  June’s husband Bob will discuss the reclamation and rebuilding of the farm’s pre-Civil War barn into an attractive and usable building.