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About The Farm
Kill Creek Farm is a place where
families and friends come every October to the traditional
Harvest Festival with basket-weavers, blacksmiths, food vendors
along with thousands of locally-grown pumpkins. All taking
place on what continues to be a working farm with the livestock
and buildings associated with agriculture 50-100 years ago.
Open year-round by appointments, the farm specializes in
offering children's guided tours covering everything from bee
keeping to hand-milking a cow. To schedule a guided tour of Kill
Creek Farm, contact Karen at 913-583-1811.
New at Kill Creek Farm
Fresh Promises is what we call our
new farmer's market. Our farm is the site of a weekly market where
you can purchase directly from the farmers that grow the vegetables and other
farm products. Fresh Promises....Where Friends Meet!
Fresh Promises Farmer's Market is open Wednesday's in late July
through September, 2007.
In conjunction with the De Soto Chamber of
Commerce, the 2nd Annual Blues and BBQ Event was held at Kill
Creek Farm on Saturday, June 16, 2007.
The event was open to the public and featured entertainment by the Jimmy Nickelsen Band with Cotton
Candy, a silent auction which raised over $3,800 benefiting the Chamber of Commerce, and
delicious BBQ food.
Upcoming Events at Kill
Creek Farm
 The signature event of the year for Kill
Creek Farm is the 14th Annual Harvest Festival, which begins the
last weekend in September and runs through October 28th on weekends from 10:00 a.m.
- 6:00 p.m.
Activities include: basket-weavers, blacksmiths,
saw mill demonstrations, food
vendors, country music, horse-drawn wagon rides, honey from our very own
Kill Creek Farm bees, jams and jellies from our neighbors at Tree House
Berry Farm, and with thousands of locally-grown pumpkins.
 Kill Creek Farm
was one of the premier
tour stops for the annual Finding the Flavors of Life Tour
October 6-7, 2006 hosted by the Kansas Department of Commerce, Kaw
Valley Agri-Tourism Council, K-State Research & Extension, Lawrence
Convention and Visitors Bureau, Community Mercantile Co-op and Community
mercantile Education Foundation.
A proud tradition at Kill Creek Farm was the
4th Annual Cookin' on the Kaw BBQ Contest which was held on Saturday, October 13th.
Approximately 39 teams (De Soto's
version of the American Royal BBQ) participated in this fun and
unique event!
Each year in the Fall, the De Soto
Rotary Chili Challenge, a CASI-sanctioned event is held at Kill
Creek Farm. All of the
proceeds from the Chili Challenge benefitted the Gift of Life, who sign
up citizens to be organ donors for those in need of transplants. The entry fee
for cookers will be $10.00 paid in advance. Each contestant will provide at least 3 gallons of their
favorite chili. Please bring propane appliances to keep chili
warm. Tents and tables will be furnished. Please bring your
own chairs. Patron's fee for chili will be $5.00 per bowl.
For more information please call Diana Zwahlen at 913-583-3730 or e-mail
aillusions@kc.rr.com.
This year will mark the 4th year for the
Christmas in the Barn with music and live nativity presented by the
Kaw Prairie Community Lutheran Church. Four services are held
on December 23rd, as well as four services on Christmas Eve. There
were over 1,000 people in attendance in 2006. For more
information, contact Pastor
Dan McKnight at 913-441-1230.
How To Reserve The
White-Waitzmann Barn
The 1880 timber-frame barn can be rented for
birthday parties, weddings and receptions, corporate meetings and any
gather that would match with a beautiful rural setting.
For more information to reserve you next
event at the White-Waitzmann Barn, call 913-583-1225.
Other Things to See and
Do
Study the architecture of the award-winning
timber-frame barn and windmill. A place frozen in time, where sights, sounds
and yes, the smells still abound and where memories of an earlier
less-hectic time will be renewed.
Directions To Kill Creek
Farm
It's easy to get to Kill Creek Farm. We're
located at the northwest corner of the Kill Creek Road and K-10
interchange in De Soto. Turn at the Kill Creek Farm sign and
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