Kentucky Sustainable Living Homesteading & Preparedness Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acGYVk7mbJI

It’s official!  Mark your calendars for October 28 & 29, 2023 and make your way to Bowling Green, KY!

The video talks about speakers and vendors and demonstrators they've already got lined up, but if you are interested, they are still looking for more people in those categories.  

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Thank you for posting this video.  I was amazed when you announced that admission is free.  What a valuable service you are providing.  Bless you guys!

It wasn't me!  I have no affiliation with this at all, just found out about it, and thought people might like to know about it.  I am in Kentucky, and may go to it, if I can (Bowling Green isn't much more than an hour away from us); it would be fun to meet up with other Permies there.

Oh, cool Kathleen! Well, Thank you for sharing the festival information with the Permies community.  Bowling Green is about an hour away from me too.  Hummm...are we neighbors?

Angela Wilcox wrote:Oh, cool Kathleen! Well, Thank you for sharing the festival information with the Permies community.  Bowling Green is about an hour away from me too.  Hummm...are we neighbors?

LOL!  You never know!  After I bought this place, but before we'd moved here from Oregon, I mentioned where we were moving to here on Permies.com, and someone messaged me and said she lived not much more than a stone's throw from my new property!  She'd almost bought it a few years earlier, in fact.  She actually lives about a mile from us, came to visit as soon as we got here, and is now a good friend.  We are both in Green County; are you close?

Kathleen Sanderson wrote:

LOL!  You never know!  After I bought this place, but before we'd moved here from Oregon, I mentioned where we were moving to here on Permies.com, and someone messaged me and said she lived not much more than a stone's throw from my new property!  She'd almost bought it a few years earlier, in fact.  She actually lives about a mile from us, came to visit as soon as we got here, and is now a good friend.  We are both in Green County; are you close?

I’m in Hart County. Howdy neighbor!

Angela Wilcox wrote:

Kathleen Sanderson wrote:

LOL!  You never know!  After I bought this place, but before we'd moved here from Oregon, I mentioned where we were moving to here on Permies.com, and someone messaged me and said she lived not much more than a stone's throw from my new property!  She'd almost bought it a few years earlier, in fact.  She actually lives about a mile from us, came to visit as soon as we got here, and is now a good friend.  We are both in Green County; are you close?

I’m in Hart County. Howdy neighbor!

Right next door!  How cool!  We should try to get together some time.  I think there are others on Permies.com who are in this general area, too -- maybe a picnic sometime this summer.  

Kathleen Sanderson wrote:

Right next door!  How cool!  We should try to get together some time.  I think there are others on Permies.com who are in this general area, too -- maybe a picnic sometime this summer.  

I like your idea!

Very near Bowling Green is the small community of Horse Cave.   AWP Butcher Block on Cherry Street in Horse Cave turns out a high quality inexpensive product.   I bought a counter top , about 3” thick, from them a few years ago.   It has held up well.  If you are going to be in the area, this is a good way to save shipping costs.  And, to stress a point, it was much more inexpensive than anything else I could find.

John F Dean wrote:Very near Bowling Green is the small community of Horse Cave.   AWP Butcher Block on Cherry Street in Horse Cave turns out a high quality inexpensive product.   I bought a counter top , about 3” thick, from them a few years ago.   It has held up well.  If you are going to be in the area, this is a good way to save shipping costs.  And, to stress a point, it was much more inexpensive than anything else I could find.

That is useful and timely information, because sometime in the next few weeks I'm going to be needing some countertop, and butcher block, or at least wood, is my first choice.  Though I don't know that I want it 3" thick -- I would need to shorten my cabinets a bit if I got that.  I'm short to start with (5'3") and have already been considering if I could cut cabinets down a little bit to make my work spaces easier to use.  (I plan to shorten the legs on my work island for this reason.)

I am sure they will build to order.  The 3” was my idea. I looked up the company. It appears to still be around.   I made my purchase in 2010.

Southern Nelson county here, near Hodgenville! A meet up this summer would be awesome.