Best Fall Food Festivals in New England
Heading into fall means a whole new crop of seasonal food festivals to enjoy before the cold weather sends us inside for the winter. With foliage color on the way, why not plan a road trip and take in one our picks for the best fall food festivals in New England? Bring your appetite!
Cranberry Harvest Celebration
October 6-7, 2012 at the A.D. Makepeace Company Headquarters at Tihonet Village
cranberries.org/festival/festival.html
This fun family event features cranberry bog tours, helicopter rides, pony rides, cooking demonstrations, juried crafters and artisans, musical performances, games for children and much more.
Boston Local Food Festival
October 7, 2012 at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in MA
bostonlocalfoodfestival.com
Boston’s newest and greenest food festival — celebrating the joys of eating local and promoting local farmers, restaurants, and specialty foods. Events include a seafood throwdown competition, chef and instructional demonstrations, music, tastings, and community crop shares.
Glastonbury Applefest
October 13-14, 2012 at Riverfront Park in CT
glastonburychamber.net
A top festival in the nutmeg state, featuring live music, 150+ craft booths, pie eating contest, pie bake-off, amusement rides, pony rides, family entertainment, road races, beer garden, and petting zoo.
Wellfleet Oysterfest
October 13-14, 2012 throughout downtown Wellfleet, MA
wellfleetoysterfest.org
Featuring local cuisine, educational lectures, cooking demonstrations, arts and crafts, children’s activities, live music, road races, walking tours and the popular annual Oyster Shuck-Off competition, where hopefuls compete for the $1,000 cash prize and super shucker bragging rights.
Keene Pumpkin Festival
October 20, 2012 throughout downtown Keene, NH
pumpkinfestival2011.org
One of New England’s top festival events for over 20 years! Featuring thousands of carved jack-o-lanterns, live music, crafts, food, activities, and much more throughout picturesque downtown Keene. Bring a carved pumpkin to contribute to the count and hope for a record-breaking total. This year’s event also includes a ferris wheel with 45-foot views of the great pumpkin tower.
Franklin County Cider Days
November 3-4, 2012 throughout Franklin County, MA
ciderday.org
Calling all apple lovers! Featuring orchard tours, cidermaking, fresh and hard cider tastings, workshops, Harvest Supper, amateur cider competition, craft marketplace, and much more of everything apple.
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Sept 8 & 9, 2012 – Sponsored by St Peter’s Episcopal Church – Rte 111 near the Monroe Town Hall ~ Festival Hours are Sat 10-5:00 and Sun 10-4:00
Welcome to the Apple Festival page, sponsored by St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on the historic Monroe Green. This is our 68th year and although the festival name has changed over the years, the joy, friendliness, fun and good food have remained the same. The festival always takes place the weekend after Labor Day and brings in folks from all over Connecticut and surrounding states.
At the Apple Festival you will find something for everyone. This year we are excited to have over 70 crafters offering many different kinds of homemade, handcrafted items for sale. You will also find:
Country Kitchen – This is where you will find pies, tarts, cookies, breads, jams, caramel & candy apples and much more!
Children’s Games – Moonwalks, games/prizes, face painting and “Willie” the Clown.
Mums – 200 hardy mum plants, autumn joy and asters
Raffle – This year we will have a Tea-Cup Raffle ~ you get to choose which prize you would like to win! This years prizes include a weekend at a beautiful Cape Cod home, a Queen size handcrafted quilt and a Best Buy gift card.
Snack Bar – Hot dogs, Hamburgers, Egg McBuffas, apple friets, pizza friets, fried oreos and twinkies and many more delicious foods and drinks.
Apple Central – Fresh apples, apple cider and apple items for sale.
Apple Crisp – Now outside on the green near the Snack Bar, stop by for some wonderful homemade apple crisp a la mode!
We are located on the Historic Monroe Green – on Route 111. Use 175 Old Tannery Rd, Monroe CT on your GPS. Free admission and plenty of free parking is available. For further information call (203) 268-4265.