Muddy Boots

Smoking Tobacco Barns

After two years in Kentucky, we saw our first smoking tobacco barns today in Christian and Logan Counties.  My camera is MIA otherwise I would have stopped and taken a picture.

In our area, tobacco is hung in open-air barns to dry.  I first read about the smoking barns in a coffee table book about Kentucky barns.  Then another homesteadblogger posted pictures of a couple in her area.  (Sorry, it's been a long time so I can't remember who that was!)  They sure do look like they're on fire!  Good thing I knew what was going on or I would have called 9-1-1-. :)

Our barn is actually a newer tobacco barn, built just before the buy-out.  It only held tobacco for two seasons before being abandoned, along with the rest of our property.  The cross ventillation makes it a great place to play outside during a summer thunderstorm.  Ours currently holds the fort pictured in the previous post, our boat, extra straw bales, a non-regulation basketball hoop, and anything else my kiddos drag back there for protection.  In the winter the large tiller and the lawn tractor will take their place alongside the boat.  My dh dreams of the day that his very own tractor will hang out in that barn.

This is the only picture I could find of the barn.  I'll have to fix that as soon as I find my camera!

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{ 09:57, Monday, September 24, 2007 } { Posted by farmgal35 }

My family were tobacco farms for many years. There is still two tobacco barns on the farm. One of them is over 62 years old. We still haven`t taken down the poles, from which the tobacco was hung. My grandfather uses an old tobacco stick as a walking cane. sheryl