Celebrate harvest season at Seattle Tilth’s Harvest Fair. This annual urban farm festival is hands-on and fun for the entire community with workshops, cooking demonstrations and fun activities for all ages. Eat tasty food, enjoy live music and check out the colorful and delicious produce local farms and gardens are overflowing with.
Now in its 27th year, this family friendly festival is right around the corner:
Seattle Tilth’s Harvest Fair
Saturday, September 6 from 10 am-4 pm
Meridian Park {4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle}
Come hang out and press cider from local apples, enjoy fresh, delicious food, nuzzle a goat or chicken, make an herb crown, or even join the parade. Local and organic farm stands will be stocked with fresh produce at the height of harvest season. The Harvest Fair is a great place to stock-up on fresh foods, farm crafts, native and edible plants, garden supplies and sustainable goods. You can also learn tips for canning and cooking, or bring goods to trade and barter.
See the full schedule of activities and the list of participating farmers, vendors and organizations.
Activities include:
- Workshops
- Live music
- Local food trucks and tents
- Organic farmers market
- Urban farm demonstration
- Sustainable vendors
- Kids parade (noon)
- Barter (1-3 p.m.)
- Canning and cooking demonstrations
- Cider pressing
- DIY herb crowns
- Seed swap
- Raffle
- Kids crafts in the children’s garden
Volunteers are needed to help make it all happen and volunteering is a fun way to participate. Sign-up to volunteer HERE!
Admission is free but donations are encouraged at the entrances to help cover event costs.
Seattle Tilth inspires and educates people to safeguard our natural resources while building an equitable and sustainable local food system. They have been providing hands-on education in organic agriculture for 36 years. They believe that all people deserve access to healthy, nutritious food and that changing the way in which we grow, cook and eat food has the potential to transform people’s lives as well as the communities in which we live.
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