The Heritage Harvest Tour is a driving tour through Lawrence and Boyd Counties Saturday morning Sept. 30, 2017 beginning at 9:00 a.m. This is a great opportunity to visit working farms and take home your very own piece of our Appalachian Heritage. On the tour there are 11 stops.
Extension Officer Laura Maggard says “The Heritage Harvest Tour is a family friendly event for folks of all ages! We encourage everyone to come out and enjoy the beautiful fall scenery. The weather is suppose to be great, so get the kids out and enjoy a fun weekend in the country! Come support your local farmers, small business owners, and little country churches!”
Residents of Boyd and Lawrence counties who seldom wander far from Ashland and Louisa have a superb opportunity to see new parts of the counties at this year’s Heritage Harvest Tour.
Expanded to two days and 14 stops by popular demand , the annual Heritage Harvest Tour of farms, country churches, and other home-spun stopoffs in Boyd and Lawrence counties will enable area residents to partake of some excellent meals, visit working farms, take in a bit of history, and see things that many probably never knew existed so close to home. And, in so doing, they will enjoy the gentle hospitality of the rural people of the two counties.
The driving tour along U.S. 23 and Ky. 3 will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Folks can partake of whatever portions of the tour they choose during those times.
The event will be conducted regardless of the weather.
The self-guided tour winds it way down Ky. 3 from Cannonsburg to Louisa and then up U.S. 23 to Catlettsburg — or the other way around, if participants are so inclined.
Along the way visitors may eat a country breakfast, see operating farms, buy quilts and other Kentucky-crafted items and watch apple butter and sorghum being made at the 11 stops on the tour.
Now in its seventh year, the tour grew from a seed planted by several farms along Ky. 3 that wanted to expand agri-tourism opportunities. The extension offices in the two counties are the primary sponsors of the tour.
The tour itself is free, but two stops, Wolfpen Woods and Kentucky Roots, charge fees and other stops will have food, crafts and other items for sale. How much one spends on the tour is each person’s choice.
For more information or to request brochures with tour maps, call the Lawrence County office at (606) 673-9495 or the Boyd County office at (606) 739-5184 or visit
www.heritageharvesttourky.com or
facebook.com/heritageharvesttour.
