Edward "Skip" Jackson, along with his wife, are co-owners of Iron Kettle Farm. Iron Kettle Farm began as a small roadside farm selling strawberries, corn, summer vegetables, tomatoes, and some fall produce from an abandoned corncrib. The farm has continued to expand over the years and now draws visitors from all over the Northeast. The farm is such a tourist attraction that it won the Governor's Agricultural Award at the New York State Fair in 1992 and the first-ever Agriculture-Tourism Award in 1998.
During the public season (May 1 to October 31), thousands of visitors come to admire the gardens, buy plants and produce, browse in the gift store, indulge in homemade "country" foods (cider, homemade doughnuts, pies, and cookies), and visit the baby animals: goats, sheep, ducks, chickens, miniature horses, donkeys and pigs.
The gift items started, well, that was Jeannie's project, probably about nine years ago. And Timmy's going to be nine this fall and she wanted a place to buy farm-related gifts for the grandkids, and so she calls it Grandma's Barn. And most of the products in that barn are farm- or country-related. ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Skip Jackson Shares Examples of Agricultural Entertainment Offerings at Iron Kettle Farm
Skip Jackson Shares Example of Farm Visitors Coming From Far Outside Marketing Area During Fall
