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Country Ham

The program details:

  • Youth meet once in January (usually during MLK weekend on Saturday or Monday) to learn about country hams and prepare their hams for curing and hanging.

  • End of May/early June, youth clean their hams and rehang them.

  • Tuesday before KY State Fair, youth will return to the office to clean their hams and pick out the best one to enter.

  • First Thursday of KY State Fair, youth will attend the fair and give a 3-5 minute speech in the morning and attend an awards ceremony in late afternoon. 

  • Fee $70: Youth receive 2 country hams, 2 tickets to the KY State Fair, and parking pass at fair

  • Deadline to apply: December 6, 2024

 

 

Country Ham Topic for 2025 Juniors born 2015-2011: 

Steps to Curing a Country Ham - outline, discuss, and describe the steps you took to cure your ham for this year's country ham project.

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Country Ham Topic for 2025 Seniors born 2006-2010:

Design a country ham curing facility for your counties ham project - More and more counties building their own country ham houses. You have an unlimited budget, design your counties dream country ham house and curing facility. 

- (Visual aids are optional, no digital/electronics,  limited to one poster board, you can use both sides)

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SENIORS : all presentations MUST be 2+ minutes long or they will be disqualified and hams will be forfeited.

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Speeches should be between 3-5 minutes in length

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