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Farmstead Inn • Shipshewana, IN
May 22-24, 2026
Welcome back for another hometown weekend full of friends, food, fun, and, of course - shopping and showing! The schedule for each day is below.
Welcome, Shopping, & Dinner!
2:00-3:45pm: Welcome, wristband pickup, hors d’oeuvres and drop-in socializing
4:00-7:00pm: Stone Store Open, see shopping details below
7:30pm: Country Dinner Buffet
Stone Horses Country Fair Horse Show Day!
7:00-8:00am: Venue opens, setup for show
8:00am-6:00pm: Show, end time may vary
7:00am-6:00pm: Stone Store Open, see shopping details below
Dinner on your own, many lovely local restaurants to choose from!
Stone Factory Tour & Sale Day!
10am: Store Opens, Tours Begin! We will have our Stone Store open including Mini Artem with his Stone Horses blanket, our Micro Minis, Stickers, T-shirts, and more!
11:00am-1:00pm: Guest Horse Meet & Greet
11:30am-1:00pm: BBQ Lunch at the Factory
Activities done by 1pm to allow for travel home
These pieces (and more!) will be offered for purchase in person at our Country Fair event, shopping opens on Friday May 22nd at 4pm Eastern at the Farmstead Inn in Shipshewana!
For those unable to attend the event, a selection of these models will be held and offered via Drawing to Purchase, open for registration May 8th-12th, with winners announced May 14th!
One trip through the store per person with a wristband, shopping limit of one OOAK and one Run per person.
Second Chance Corral models count as an OOAK even if they were originally sold as a run.
Once all wristband groups have shopped, we will open for anyone with no wristband and for wristband folks to go through a second time, and all Friday shopping hours have the one OOAK and one Run purchase limit in place.
We plan to have all inventory available on Friday with nothing held back for Saturday, however, we will likely be restocking Run and OOAK inventory as shopping on Friday progresses, so there may be ‘new’ OOAKs put out throughout the evening.
The Stone Store will be open all day with no wristbands needed and no purchase limits.
We will have even more blank sculptures available than we did in 2025, at even further reduced pricing! We need our model storage space back, help us clear these out! They range from second/third quality blanks (rough seams, no manes or tails, misalignment issues, etc) to partially prepped models with manes and tails applied, to beautifully customized models with a spot of plastic contamination, and everything in between! Our standards for models in our processes are sky high, so we flunk models out often for things that could be fixed simply with apoxie or other materials we don't use, so our strict processes are your gain! There are no purchase limits on the blank sale, and these are only available in person.
Those of you who have been around from the beginning will recall Stone's early focus on draft horses! Indeed, two of the very first sculptures to be released were the iconic Standing Drafter and the Trotting Drafter, both of whom were immediately put to work immortalizing some of the Draft world's most special individuals.
For our 30th anniversary, we're heading back to our Drafty Roots! If you've had the chance to take a scenic buggy ride around Shipshewana, there's a decent chance you may have already met our guest horse, Bonnie! She's a stunning dappled steel grey Percheron mare who lives here in Shipshewana and makes her living trotting visitors about town in a variety of seasonally decorated carriages. She thinks she's the most photographed horse in Shipshewana, and we are inclined to agree.
Carly Kudalis will be Bonnie's friend and handler for the day, as our Amish neighbors don't work on Sundays! As her owner put it, Bonnie is still allowed to come get treats and pets on her day of rest, it'll be a vacation for her and she's earned it.
You’ve seen our photos of the real Bonnie, so we’re so excited to announce her Stone Horses counterpart. But first, meet the real Bonnie. The real Bonnie is over 18 hands and is the sweetest mare! She loves pets and people, which makes her profession perfect. She pulls various types of carts for tourists and locals around Shipshewana. She is a gorgeously dappled gray mare that knows she’s pretty. She has the softest muzzle and a shining personality. She knows she does fantastic work at her job. You can have your own Stone version of Bonnie and take home a piece of Shipshewana with you.
Bonnie is a collaborative piece by Ellen Robbins and Matt Samuels. Matt took our Standing Drafter and customized it to be a portrait of Bonnie. He changed the Standing Drafter’s head and neck to be lowered and turned. She features a custom loose long mane and tail. Her hooves were also customized to reflect toe clip draft horse hooves. Ellen painted Bonnie as a portrait of the real Bonnie. She has detailed dappling across her body along with shading on her face. If you’ve ever met the real-life Bonnie, you will be pleased with her miniature version. Bonnie has such a soft intelligent glow to her eyes and her model has that same feeling to it!
Bonnie is a run of 30 finished in matte and all finish options are available. The first 15 Bonnies will be available for pickup at Country Fair. The remaining 15 will be made after Country Fair. We will take orders for Bonnie until May 15th so make sure to get your orders in! Bonnie will be go on sale Friday April 24th at 2pm EST under New Releases.
Enjoy a stay in beautiful Shipshewana! Bookings Open Now for 2026.
Room block available for Friday & Saturday nights, call the hotel and reference “Stone Horses Country Fair” to book! The room block is not available online, only via booking over the phone.
370 S Van Buren St, Shipshewana, IN 46565
260-768-4595
Room Rates:
Thursday: $149
Friday & Saturday: $199
How to Find Us
Take the main entrance driveway off the main road through Shipshewana to the back parking lot to the main CONFERENCE CENTER entrance. This main driveway has an archway over it that reads Farmstead Inn. This route will lead directly into our sale area. You can also access it through the main floor hallways by following signs to Conference Center.
