Rural Heritage December 2025/January 2026

Cedar Creek Plow Day

event that does exactly that: share homesteading skills with a public hungry for that knowledge. Each year, several teamsters bring their horses and mules to the event to mow, plow, harrow and rake hay in a nearby field. For this year, they planted a few rows of sorghum to chop down and feed into a press Emery had found and then boil it down in an evaporator he had built. The event is free, friendly and a celebration of what a homesteading community can accomplish when they get together.

by Joe Mischka W hen Emery and Kaitlyn Edwards decided to host a plow day in Linden, Tenn., they wanted to make it an event where people who practice heritage crafts can share that knowledge with others. Those crafts include broom making, cheesemaking, bread baking, keeping a family cow, growing heritage crops, butchering chickens and much more. For the third year, the Edwards and volunteers have put on an

Calvin Elder mows grass alongside a plowed furrow with his team of Percherons. Men cutting sorghum are in the background.

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