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“Restoring the Land, The Buildings, and The People.”

Flying J Farms 5329 Van Fossen Road , Johnstown, OH 43031     telephone 740-967-4030

Copyright 2007 Flying J Farms            Web Design by Blue Rock Station

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Regular and Special Events

One of the methods used by the Flying J Farm to promote our philosophy is through special events and festivals for urban people. Some of these events have live music and dancing. All of the warm-weather events include a hayride back to the lake for a bonfire. Children are encouraged at all regular events. The “entertainment barn” which has a pool table and darts is always available for these events. The Flying J has been called an “entertainment farm” because of its three regular events and many one-time events each year.    

The first regular event of the year, the third or fourth weekend in February, is the Maple Sugar Festival featuring tours of the sugarbush, demonstrations of identifying and taping trees, gathering sap, evaporating and bottling the syrup. Tastes of the syrup from the evaporator as well as in baked goods and pancakes are always a part of the festival.

Second, the fourth weekend in April is the Mushroom Hunt where we search for the exotic but elusive morel mushroom. This is the season for fresh wildflowers in the woods as well as many  edible plants that can be gathered. The Flying J Farm is one place where you are encouraged to pick the flowers (except for the trilliums and creek lilies). Food is potluck featuring mushrooms.

  

   

   

   

   

 

 

 Fall Fest

In late September or early October we have the Fall Fest, our most popular event of the year. We have educational seminars including a farm tour where we describe the various steps we have taken to be sustainable in an unsustainable country. These include solar electric, making biodiesel fuel, sawmill, oudoor wood furnace, making chicken feed from our grains, etc.

The event also includes lots of food from the farm and music and dancing.

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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”

  Alexander Humboldt