Walk out the back door of one of the five show homes at Piperton Preserve this October and you are looking at a working hay field. Not a landscaped meadow meant to suggest the countryside. An actual field that gets cut on the same schedule it always has, sitting inside the same subdivision where five builders just finished framing brand new houses for a three-week public tour.
That is the setting for the Fall 2026 Vesta Home Show, which the West Tennessee Home Builders Association runs from October 3 through October 25 inside Piperton Preserve at RusDun Farms. The association bills it as a look at where residential design is headed. What makes this particular staging worth a look for anyone who already lives nearby is less about the design trends and more about the ground it sits on. This is a neighborhood built specifically to keep the old farm visible next to the new houses, so for three weeks you can walk the exact seam where one version of Piperton ends and another begins.
Five Houses, Five Builders, Three Weeks
The show features five homes built by Dave Moore Companies, East Construction Co. under Bobby East, Inglewood Homes, Riverside Construction, and Trademark Construction. It runs Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m., according to the West Tennessee Home Builders Association.
The construction on view this fall started with a public groundbreaking ceremony on March 25, held right on the Piperton Preserve site and open to anyone who wanted to attend. That means anyone who has driven past the lots off Poplar or Keough this year watched these five houses go from cleared ground to finished product in about seven months, which is a fast turnaround even by production-home standards.
The Farm the Show Sits On
Piperton Preserve at RusDun Farms takes its name from Melvin D. Russell, who started an egg operation on the land in 1970 and named the farm RusDun to honor both the Russell and Dunn families, early settlers in the area. Before the egg operation, the same ground grazed dairy cattle into the 1960s. Roughly 90 acres of the original farm are still cut for hay today, and a two-room schoolhouse the Dunn family preserved still stands near the neighborhood's original 27-lot phase north of Keough Drive, according to the developer's own history of the site.
None of that is decoration. It is the literal backdrop for this year's show homes, which means the tour that runs through the neighborhood this month is also a walk past a working hay field and a one-room schoolhouse that predates every house in the subdivision by more than a century.
A Show That Left and Came Back
This is not the first time Vesta has set up in Piperton. The spring 2024 show ran in the Piper Hollow subdivision, also in Piperton. For fall 2025, the event moved to Collierville's Hidden Creek community for a run from November 8 through 30. Now it is back in Piperton, this time at Piperton Preserve.
Vesta rotates between developments across west Tennessee roughly twice a year, so a return to the same town within a few cycles is not automatic. Piperton Preserve sits just minutes from Collierville Town Square, close enough to draw on foot traffic from an established destination while still putting its own site on display. Choosing it twice in three cycles reads less like a one-off booking and more like a bet that the neighborhood has enough going on to be worth the trip on its own.
What a Visit Actually Involves
Touring all five homes takes about two hours. General admission tickets are sold online in advance and at the ticket trailer on site, credit card only. Because the site is still an active construction zone, golf carts shuttle visitors from parking to the show homes, and rideshare pickup after the visit is not guaranteed even if a driver can get you there. Food and drink are allowed in the hospitality tent but not inside the homes themselves, and once you leave the show grounds, getting back in requires a new ticket rather than a same-day return.
None of that is unusual for a home show of this size, but it is useful to know before making a Saturday of it, especially with five houses and a hospitality tent to get through before the gate closes for the evening.
The Town Square Still Under Construction
The five homes on display this fall are a small piece of a much larger plan. Once finished, Piperton Preserve is set to include about 240 single-family homes arranged around a town square along Poplar Avenue, with larger estate lots toward the edges of the development and more compact garden homes closer to the square and its retail. The neighborhood borders Poplar and Keough Drive and connects directly to I-69, putting it a short drive from both Collierville and the rest of Fayette County.
Seen against that plan, the Vesta homes are less a finished statement and more an early preview of the density and style the interior of the neighborhood is headed toward, years before the square itself is built out. Anyone touring the show this month is getting a look at what the eventual center of the neighborhood is likely to feel like, well before the retail and the square around it exist.
For three weeks this October, you can walk from a hospitality tent through five new houses built by five different crews, and end up at the edge of a hay field that has been cut on the same schedule since before any of those houses had a foundation. That is a fairly precise picture of where Piperton stands right now: half finished plan, half working farm, with the line between them moving a little further out every season.
If the mix of new construction and old farmland out at RusDun Farms has you curious about where this stretch of Fayette County is actually headed, the Judy Mac Team has been watching this corner of Piperton long enough to tell you what's changing and what's just new paint.
