← Farm Journal · 2026-10-24

Campus Visits & UT Graduation: Big Orange Weekends from a Highland Cow Farm

The Highland herd grazing at Cedar Pond Farms, a farm stay half an hour from the University of Tennessee

Not every Knoxville trip has a ticket. Campus tours, admitted-student days, move-in, parents' weekend, and the big one — graduation — fill the UT calendar with family visits that deserve better than an interstate hotel cluster.

The visit-day rhythm

From Cedar Pond Farms it's about half an hour to campus: tour in the morning, Market Square lunch, then back to a farm where the decision-talk happens on a porch over grazing Highland cattle. Prospective students remember the school that came with a farm stay — parents remember actually sleeping.

Graduation, the reunion version

Commencement brings both sides of the family. One whole barndo building sleeps twenty-two; Fairland Ridge takes the full sixty-six-person celebration on one hilltop. One kitchen, one toast, no ballroom minimums — and May at the farm is green past every window.

The weekend's second headline

Every UT visit here books the same add-on: the Premium Highland Cow Experience, two hours in the field brushing the shaggiest Tennesseans of all. Round it out with the two-acre catch-and-release catfish pond and fresh eggs carried in from the coop by whichever cousin wakes first.

Hosted by the farm itself

Booked direct, your rooms are dressed before you arrive — Cedar Pond robes, Gelato Brothers gelato in the freezer, flowers from our own beds — and a human who knows the property answers at nine at night. Plan the visit; keep the tradition through four years and one very good hat toss.

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