Young Competitors, Big Dreams
Loudoun resident and 4-H member Logan Casciano was eight years old when he showed his first animals at the county fair in 2017. They were chickens raised on Casciano Club Lambs, the family farm south of Leesburg. This year, the rising Loudoun County High School sophomore will be showing five sheep, two pigs and a goat at the fair, and he enters the competition as the reigning Grand Champion in the intermediate swine (pig) category.
“Carson got all our family interested. He made me keep working hard, pushing me to be my best.”
The work entails getting up at 6 a.m. every morning to feed his animals and doing it all over again when back from school in the evening. Then there are the hours spent training the animals to perform well in front of the judges. The time he dedicates is worth it though because alongside playing baseball (he made County’s varsity team as a freshman), the fair is the highlight of Logan’s year.
“Us club members all hang out together over the week. We have a tent set up between the barns at the fairground, we listen to music and the rides are great. Everyone who shows gets a free ride pass on the Saturday after the competition is over. It’s so much fun.”
