The Kentucky Wool Festival is held on the first full weekend of October in a beautiful area next to the Kincaid Lake State Park in Falmouth, Kentucky. One of the significant fall events of the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region was named one of the top ten wool festivals in the country and was featured in Southern Living Magazine. The Kentucky Wool Festival is focused on sheep shearing as well as the fall harvest celebration.
Schedule of Events at the Woolfest
The Kentucky Wool Festival will take place on Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 10 pm and on Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. The festival features a petting area for kids and a large fair with over 100 arts and crafts vendors. Entertainment includes live bluegrass music, historical re-enactments, sheep shearing demonstrations on Saturday and Sunday, Miller Border Collie Sheep Herding, local farm product displays, and much more. Food is a major highlight, with offerings such as barbeque, chili, corn on the cob, homemade fudge, and other delights.
The Wool Tent
The Wool Tent will feature raw, washed, and ready-to-spin fleeces from a variety of fiber animals, including sheep, alpacas, goats, llamas, and rabbits. It will also offer natural-colored and dyed roving and yarns, along with tools for spinning, weaving, rug hooking, knitting, and crocheting. Visitors can find woven rugs, knitted and crocheted hats and headbands, wet felted and needle felted finished goods, as well as photography, note cards, Christmas items, and various sheep and crafting novelties. Throughout the weekend, there will be educational demonstrations on spinning, knitting, crocheting, weaving, needle felting, and wool processing.
Tickets
Admission for adults is $10, for ages 7-18 is $5, and children 6 and under are free. Three-day passes are available for $20 at local banks in Falmouth and Butler, as well as at the gates on Friday.
History of Kentucky Wool Festival
The Kentucky Wool Festival has been held since the 1980s to promote sheep growing, wool industry, and the local community. It boasts a tremendous family-friendly atmosphere creating an environment where the people can have fun, listen to music and learn about the agricultural heritage of Kentucky.
