Crawl Madison County (Sunday)

Madison County is famous for covered bridges and cowboy actor John Wayne, but those icons, iconic as they are, seem kind of “yesterday” compared to newer, hipper attractions. Check out some of those newer, hip attractions this Sunday (September 29) during the Madison County Fall Crawl. The forecast is for sunny skies with a high of 79 degrees. The Crawl is free and family friendly.

Pick up a passport at any of fifteen locations. Have your passport stamped at each location you visit, and you’ll be eligible for neat giveaways from those spots.

Passports have a list of participating locations, the addresses of the locations, and boxes to get stamped.

A good place to start is Pammel Park Coffee Co., 1968 Pammel Park Rd., Winterset, 50273. Roasters of top quality beans sourced from all over the world, Pammel Park Coffee is one of the early-open locations, with cups of hot joe ready at 8 a.m.

Matt and Naomi Hupton roast coffee on their farm.

Fifty-five vendors, spread out among the various stops, will be offering their wares, which include handmade items, food, flowers, and more. Most stops will have live music.

Cedar Shake Farm, not far from Pammel Park Coffee, is a flower and vegetable grower and the event’s organizer. Cedar Shake is offering ratatouille samples. The Corndog Caravan food truck will be parked on site.

At Kaysen Family Farms you can hold a baby pig.

There will be piglets and yard games for kids at Kaysen Family Farms.

Lone Oaks Farm and Speckled Hen Farms are within walking distance of each other (but a sixteen mile drive from Pammel Park Coffee). The motto at Speckled Hen is “Peace, Love, Chickens.”

Enjoy a breathtaking view of the prairie at Lone Oaks Farm. Vendors there include Lone Oaks Pottery and Buffalo Prairie Fibers (alpaca, llama, and wool yarn, roving, and felt).

Here’s a full list of locations: Big Rack Brew Haus, Bigelow Family Farm, Cedar Shake Farm, Covered Bridges Winery, Iris Aisle, Judge Lewis House Bed & Breakfast, Kaysen Family Farm, Lone Oaks Farm, Madison County Winery, Pammel Park Coffee Co., PepperHarrow, Simple Life Farm, Speckled Hen Farms, 1st Down Brewing, and The Drift.

PepperHarrow flowers (left). Iris Aisle event space (right).

Here’s a link to the Crawl’s FB page.

The Madison County Fall Crawl is donating 25% of its vendor fees to the Iowa Theater, Winterset’s classic, single-screen, nonprofit movie theater and live theater space.

The velvet curtain opens for movies on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 7 p.m., Sunday afternoons at 2. Sign up for the theater’s weekly email here to keep up with what’s going on. The Iowa serves Iowa grown popcorn with real butter, beer, wine, Coke products, and theater candies.