HOME AND FINE ARTS
Home, fine arts, and horticulture (HFAH) is an opportunity for individuals to show their skills and compete with others for prize money and award recognition in areas such as: baking, chili making, pie baking, charcuterie boards, deviled egg creations, BBQ creations, canning, quilting, sewing, arts and crafts, paper crafting, flowers, horticulture and photography. These competition events take place throughout the week in the Edwards Building and are open to adults. Youth are welcome to enter as well but they would need to follow the entering guidelines of the Home, Fine Arts, and Horticulture area instead of Junior Fair guidelines. People from outside Franklin County may enter the competitions.
2026 Fair Book Sections
General Rules apply to all sections; Please read all rules carefully.
See each section for section-specific rules and requirements, classes and dates.
Arts and Crafts
Adult art, youth art, crafts & papercrafts
Baking
Breads, cakes, candy, cookies
Canning
Fruits, vegetables, jam, jelly, pickles, butters, other
Flowers, Horticulture, Fruits, and Vegetables
Potted plants, roses, cut flowers, fruits and vegetables
Honey
5 classes
Needle Art, Sewing, and Quilts
Crochet, Embroidery/Needlepoint, Knitting & Sewing, Fiber art
Quilting - 24 classes for quilts and quilted items, including a community service baby quilt class (these quilts will be judged, and then donated to 4th Trimester Charity)
Other Activities
Progressive Euchre Tournament – Friday 7/24, 8pm
Paper Crafts
Scrapbook pages
Cards & tags
Photography
13 classes with different subjects/themes
Special Events
Youth Fundraising Challenge (for 4H members)
Charcuterie board/cup, grazing board, deviled egg flight, appetizer/dip.
Franklin County Sheriff Dallas Baldwin’s And Franklin County Engineer Adam Fowler’s Chili And Cornbread Contest
FCAS Pie contest
Tablescaping
Pork Ribs Contest
Speed Jigsaw Puzzle Contest (new in 2026!)