10/28/2025
🎃Meet the Farmers behind PumpkinMania! 🎃
Cleav's Family Market is a diversified farm stretching from Hart to LaRue county. They offer Buyer's Club subscriptions of seasonal produce and meat, and will be opening their first brick and mortar farm store coming soon! Visit www.cleavsfamilymarket.com to learn more.
Slak Market Farm is a micro-dairy located in Fayette county offering herd shares, Halal meat & eggs, and staycations at their Dairy Dream overnight family farm stay. Visit www.slakmarket.com to learn more.
So how do they work together? Cleav's Family Market grows the pumpkins. Then Slak Market Farm collects the pumpkin innards and used carved pumpkins to feed to their livestock. Everybody wins!
Join us tomorrow at the PumpkinMania Festival, Sunday, October 26 for pumpkin carving, games, food trucks and activities for all ages.
PumpkinMania is back for its 15th year at Transylvania University, and Lexington is ready to glow again. Each October, the steps of historic Old Morrison — a National Historic Landmark — come alive with the light of hundreds of carved jack-o’-lanterns. Families, alumni, students and community members gather to create one of the region’s most breathtaking Halloween traditions. Reserve your pumpkin at https://www.transy.edu/calendar/pumpkinmania today!
Black Soil KY is a one-of-a-kind Black woman-founded and led 501c(3) nonprofit agribusiness established in 2017 which has invested over $1 million into Black farming operations, culinary businesses, creators, craftspeople, and makers through grants, strategic partnerships, sales, and agritourism activities.
The mission of Black Soil KY is to reconnect Black Kentuckians to their heritage and legacy in agriculture. Our vision is to help foster a greater market share for Black farmers and producers as they provide healthy food options to a larger consumer base. Learn more at www.blacksoilky.com.
