2025 Annual Meeting & Barn Forum

Tim Sheets
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The 2025 Indiana Barn Foundation Forum and Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, July 12th from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Beck’s Hybrids in Atlanta, Hamilton County, Indiana. The program will include words from Beck’s Hybrids CEO, Sonny Beck and an introduction of IBF’s new executive director, Christine Page. The featured speaker will be retired Ball State University historic preservation professor and IBF founding board member, Duncan Campbell. His talk, “Indiana Barns: Settlement, Imprint and Evolution,” will focus on the construction techniques of barns into the 20 th century using photos taken during assessments of Indiana’s heritage barns. Beginning with timber framing, barn construction later evolved to truss and plank framing and embraced the technical and scientific movements. Attendees will be able to further understand the talk by viewing IBF’s newest of two scale barn models, which will be unveiled at the meeting.

Following lunch, attendees will be invited to gather onsite at Fieldgate Farm in Sheridan for a tour given by the owners, Kyle and Mindi McMillan. In 2020, the circa 1850 house and turn-of-the-century barn of the Baker-Johnson-Pickett Farm were saved from demolition for a road project through a partnership between Indiana Landmarks and the Indiana Department of Transportation. Learn about the documentation and 2024 reconstruction of the buildings at their new location, while visiting the Scottish Highland cattle and other animals that call the boutique farm home.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with coffee and pastries. Lunch is included in the registration fee of $25 per person. Non members of the Indiana Barn Foundation are welcome to attend. T. The morning portion of the event will be located at 6767 E 276 th St, Atlanta, IN. Thank you to Beck’s Hybrids for sponsoring this year’s meeting.