Fancy Farm is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, United States, 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the county seat, Mayfield. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 458.

Fancy Farm is on Kentucky Route 80 in the rural, far-western share of the declare called the Jackson Purchase. It was contracted by Roman Catholics starting in 1829, and is known for instinctive a strongly Catholic area. The community grew in the region of St. Jerome Church, built in 1836. The first declare office opened in 1843. The shimmering name was apparently chosen considering the state office opened, by a man who was applying to be postmaster. It was first mentioned in the U.S. Census in 1870 as a proclaim office in Boswell Precinct; first mentioned as a town in Magisterial District 5 in the 1910 census; and finally enumerated as a town in its own precinct in the 1920 census.

The village is the site of the annual St. Jerome Catholic Church Picnic, famous as a time-honored political increase attracting statewide and occasionally national candidates. The picnic, referred to by non-locals as the “Fancy Farm Picnic,” began in 1881 as a purely local affair. It takes place upon the grounds of the church, which have expanded thanks in portion to the picnic’s success. Since 1956, the year that Kentucky moved its primary election to May from August, it has been held upon the first Saturday in August and has consent represent the standard starting reduction of the slip campaign season in Kentucky.

The picnic was of largely local amalgamation until two-time Governor A. B. “Happy” Chandler (best known for swine the second Commissioner of Major League Baseball) began making appearances, going for the first become old in 1931 while admin successfully for lieutenant governor.