About Us

Ron and Diane Hunter purchased Huntington Farms twenty-one years ago as foreclosed farm property. Ron was in the Army for 22 years, with his last assignment at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, in the ROTC Department. Diane taught 4th & 5th grade all over the United States and was a principal in Arizona for two years. They have three children, Ben who is an electrician living in Denver; Laura, a Nurse Practitioner in Pecatonica, Illinois; and Amy, who shows and jumps at the Gran Prix Level with her Stallion Cradilo, breeds Warm blood Sport Horses, and trains on the farm during the spring and summer months. Daughter Amy owns the training, breeding side with her father and Diane operates and coordinates the events in Huntington Barn. Diane's vision for the barn has been unfolding for many years. It was first used to store hay and farm equipment. Over the last 15 years many events have taken place in the barn; square dances, Art in the Barn, church services, birthday parties, school plays and weddings.

The house is an American Four Square built in 1916. The summer kitchen, a separate building, was also built that year, to prepare meals for the family during the hot summers in Wisconsin. Then the meals were eaten in the main house. This practice kept the main house cool when the weather was warm.

Huntington Farms was a large tobacco farm with three tobacco sheds on the property. The barn and the large grey shed that houses the horse operation was built about 35 years ago. They are the newest buildings on the property. The hay mow in the barn could hold 6,000 square bales of hay, and the milking parlor about 40 cows.