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Farm Profiles

Lavender In Bloom

Lavender In Bloom is a lavender U-pick farm in Georgetown. They have ten varieties of lavender to pick from, including ones for food use, ones with more oil for bath and body products, and even a fragrant white variety. This is a great activity to do with friends, kids, or even on your own. Lavender in Bloom harvests the rest of the lavender and makes hydrosols, bath salts, candles, and a number of other wonderful lavender products! Check them out at: https://www.lavenderinbloom.farm/

Elmwood Stock Farm

Elmwood Stock Farm is a sixth-generation family farm situated on 550 acres just outside Georgetown, KY. A USDA-certified organic operation, Elmwood Stock Farm produces wholesome vegetables, fruits, pantry items, pasture-raised poultry and pork, and grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb for direct sales to customers through the CSA Farm Share and online store, as well as for wholesale and restaurant accounts.

The family’s farming experience and integrity began with Cecil D. and Clara Bell at Bel-Clair Farm, near the old Lemons Mill, also in Scott County. Their farmstead, typical of many in the 1930s and 1940s, supported a family dairy cow, barnyard chickens, varieties of crops, and multiple livestock, working the fields using horses and mules, and eventually a tractor.

Today, farm owners Cecil and Kay Bell reside at Elmwood Stock Farm. Cecil still helps out with his Black Angus cattle herd, and Kay likes to make dessert for the farm crew. Cecil and Kay’s son, John Bell, oversees all of the vegetable production, partners in the cattle herd, and raises pastured pigs. He and his wife, Melissa Bell, are also bringing up the young, seventh-generation of family farmers. Cecil and Kay’s daughter, Ann Bell Stone, and her husband, Mac Stone, manage the CSA Farm Share, product marketing, and poultry and sheep flocks.

Homegrown Direct

Homegrown Direct, in Georgetown, is owned by Jacob and Beckham Sharpe. The 230-acre farm has been in production since 1763. Over the last several years, they have moved from growing tobacco to raising several crops and animals. The farm is home to beef cattle, sheep, hay, and vegetables. They also work with other farms in the area to provide food shares to local customers.

Triple J Farm

Triple J Farm is 370 rolling acres located within Scott County. Over the last 15 years, the farm has started raising small fruits and vegetables, beef, farm fresh eggs, and compost; adding food products through their Farmhouse Kitchen while still continuing to raise grain crops (corn, wheat, & soybeans), plus cattle feed such as hay and silage. They also raise 500 Laying hens, which provide them with farm fresh brown and blue eggs daily. Year after year they have expanded their produce production; they are now averaging between 20-25 acres of seasonal vegetables and fruits. They sell their produce through local farmer’s markets, a CSA program, off the farm and wholesale to restaurants and restaurant suppliers!