07/28/2017
We are excited to announce a few things on our future agenda here at the Bahl Family Farm!
First of all, we will be replacing the barn that was recently destroyed in the storm with a new structure. In the process of cleaning up the debris, we are attempting to salvage as much as we can. We plan to reuse the salvaged material and incorporate it into the replacement structure. Some of the salvaged material includes wood from the barn, old equipment, and memorabilia from the days of the Pumpkin Festival and Christmas tree sales. Many of you have reached out to us to lend a hand in any way possible and we are so thankful. We wanted to provide the community with a way to help out, and show our gratitude by hosting a cookout event inside of the newly built barn.
BAHL FAMILY FARM BARN COOKOUT
The cookout will be hosted in the new barn and in the barnyard we are familiar with from all those October weekends at the Pumpkin Festival. There will be food, beverages, hay rides, games, music, a brief ceremony dedicating the new barn, and more. We are currently working out the details but would love to hear input for activities! As of now, we don’t have a concrete time frame and we ask for your patience, but we hope to start construction as soon as possible. We will be posting regular updates here on our page as construction progresses. Ideally, we would like to capture the nostalgia of the Pumpkin Festival and host the cookout event on a weekend in October 2018. However, we have our work cut out for us before then!
HOW CAN I HELP?
We’ve come up with four different ways to provide support:
1) While insurance will help us build a new structure to replace the barn, salvaging and restoring historical items from the barn significantly adds to our expenses. We have set up a GoFundMe page with more information if anyone is interested in donating. The link is provided below in this post!
2) Send us your pictures from the farm! If you have any pictures of you or your family at the Pumpkin Festival or getting a Christmas tree, we would love to see them. As part of our thank you for all the years of fun at the farm, we want to take all of the pictures we receive and dedicate a wall of your photos in a collage for the new barn. Please include a caption for the photos with names and years if available.
3) Comment or message us your suggestions for what you would like to see from us in the future. As we go through the growing pains of a small local family farm with a staff of 3, we are looking to rebrand ourselves and assess how we can keep the Bahl Family Farm an important and involved part of Dubuque’s history.
4) Share this post! The more people we reach, the bigger impact our friends and families will have on the story of the Bahl Family Farm.
THANK YOU ALL, FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS
- The Bahl Family
https://www.gofundme.com/bahlfarm
KCRG: Storm destroys Bahl Family Farm's barn Everyone at the Bahl Family Farm would like to thank family, friends, and our wonderful community for the overwhelming support in the face of the destruction of our second barn in two years. These are challenging times for us a business and a family....
