Blueberry
Festivals in 2021: Where, When and More to Find a Blueberry Festival Near You!
Looking for a Blueberry festival in April 2021? There is no other listing as
complete and current as this list, just updated! All the Blueberry
festivals in the US, Canada and Britain we can find are listed on this page!
If you love Blueberries, look for a festival near you below! And I'm
looking for more Blueberry festivals! Please write me, if
you know of any to add! I update the dates as soon as the festivals
publish their information, but you can always click on the links (usually
the name of the festival) to see the current information on the festival's
own website. Blueberries typically ripen from April (in Florida and
Texas) through May on the west coast, June in most other areas and
July-August in the far north and Canada. But June and July dominate as the
months for blueberry production (and festivals) Unlike strawberries, which
grow almost anywhere, blueberries are more typically grown in the There are two general types of
blueberry festivals 1) community festivals, usually organized by a church, school, local Chamber of commerce or a town and 2). Strawberry festival held at and by a farm
38 states grow blueberries commercially, but 10 of these states dominateand
produce more than 98% of U.S. commercial production: California, Florida,
Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon
and Washington. British Columbia in Canada also produces highbush
blueberries. Even if they aren't grown locally, there may still be a
blueberry festival near you!
Update for 2021 and Coronavirus:
It looks like many festivals are returning for 2021, with the possible exception of some in lockdown-states like California, Michigan, New York. Even so, many festivals will not finalize or announce their plans until the last minute, so when we have not seen an update, we've left last year's data below and suggest you see the festivals website or call the festival as the date gets close to see if they will hold it this year.
Especially this year, due to Coronavirus, be sure to click on the
links (the blue, underlined name of the each festival) to confirm this
year's dates on the website for each festival. If they don't have a
website, call the phone number provided, but ALWAYS CONFIRM THIS YEAR'S
DATES AND TIMES BY EITHER VIEWING THEIR WEBSITE OR CALLING.
Click here for the form to add a festival and have detailed information; or click
here if you have general information and are not connected with the event!
Blueberry Festivals in 2021: Where, When and More to Find a Blueberry Festival Near You!
You may find these pages useful:
For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!
Alabama
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Alabama Blueberry Festival - the third Saturday in June from
8 am to 3 pm
- One Day Only! - Saturday, June 19, 2021
Burnt Corn Creek Park, Brewton,
Alabama. Phone: 251-867-3224. Email:
[email protected]. Free admission. The festival is held every
third Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm in June in Burnt Corn Creek Park in
historic downtown Brewton (not at Jefferson Davis college anymore). It is an
original arts & crafts festival, featuring blueberry dishes and a variety of
foods, children's entertainment, live stage entertainment, antique car show,
motorcycle show, fresh blueberries and blueberry bushes.
Click here for a link to our Facebook page.
Alaska
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Annual Alyeska Blueberry and Mountain Arts Festival - mid
August, Saturday and Sunday - call for this year's date.
Girdwood, Alaska, Contact:
907-754-2209,
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Denali Blueberry Festival - August 17, 2018
Otto Lake,
Healy Alaska. Phone: 907-683-4636. Email: email
[email protected]. Join
Denali Chamber of Commerce at 5:00pm for a carnival. Kids games, lake
raft rides, dunk tank and more! The BBQ starts at 6:00pm, with music and
dancing to follow. Admission is $5/person or $20/families. Includes
food! Epic Kayak Ultimate, sponsored by Alaska Dream Adventures starts
at 4pm ; this event has open participation
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Ketchikan Blueberry Festival - First Saturday in
August!
Main Street, Ketchikan, Alaska. Thousands of
Ketchikan residents and visitors celebrate the blueberry in style with
the annual Blueberry Arts Festival. The summer staple offers over 100
booths featuring local art and handcrafted treasures. The Festival makes
a fast start with the Fun Run followed by cheering on your favorite slug
during the Slug Races. Family fun continues with food and game booths, a
blueberry pie-eating contest, the Battle of the Bands, trivia contest
and the Great Blueberry Race. The Pet & Doll Parade kicks off the
festivities on Friday, August 6th, followed by the opening reception for
the Blueberry Juried Art Show. Complete the evening with the 13th annual
Gigglefeet Dance Festival! The Festival finishes Sunday, August 8th with
the annual Richard Brautigan and Dick Whitaker Memorial Trout Fishing in
America Poetry Slam.
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Nome Blueberry Festival - Saturday in late August/early
September
Anvil City Square, INome, Alaska. There will be music, arts
and crafts, and blueberry-based foods, like blueberry jams to
salsas to desserts. >25 vendors, Musicians etc. Ask at the Nome Visitor
Center for the date of this year's festival.
California
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Bolster's Hilltop Ranch
- July
2000
Larsen Drive, Camino, CA 95709. Phone: 530-644-2230. Open: Season:
Weekends only June 1 to July 15 from 8 am to 4 pm for blueberries;
apples on weekends only in September.; Daily 9 am to 5 pm; Open: all year for
Wine Tasting, Wine, Hard Cider, Gourmet Vinegar; Listed in VIA
Magazine Blueberry Festival. U-Pick blueberries June into September.
You-pick blueberries, you-pick apples, cider mill, forest nature
trail, cider vinegars and baked goods. ..
Blueberry Festival last weekend in June. School tours, Gift Shop
June-Dec. Apples, Cider Mill, BBQ, Picnic, Pumpkins. Craft Fairs -
Weekends. apples, blueberries, pumpkins(UPDATED: September 25, 2016, JBS) (UPDATED: April 21, 2011, from web)
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Buellton Blueberry Festival at Restoration Oaks Farm - early June
1980 US Highway 101,
Gaviota, CA. Phone: 805-686-5718. Alternate phone:
805-683-2143. Email:
[email protected].
Open: Call for availability and hours; during the season (typically
starts in May) from 10 am
to 6 pm; UPick closes at 5:30 pm; Fall Hours Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm for UPick raspberries and
blackberries. The farm store will be stocked with already picked raspberries and blackberries as well as lots of
other fun stuff through the weekend. Directions: Email, or call
or
see this page. Blueberry UPick season is from late May through June and July every year, and if the weather is good, we may open as early as April and
have blueberries into August. After many surveys of our regular pickers, we planted 6 varieties of raspberries that will be ripe and ready from August
through October. We will also have watermelons, cantaloupe and other fun fruits and veggies for picking in the late summer and fall. Every year, we open the
fields for a day or two in the off-season to our registered VIP guests. The select fields will be open, even though the freeway signs will say "closed".
We've had these VIP private field openings as late as Dec 10th. To participate in our private field openings, add your name to our VIP Email list.
(UPDATED: March 19, 2021 JBS)
Comments from a visitor on May 26, 2009: " I've been
driving by and seeing their huge Pick Your Own Blueberries sign for months
but I have not gone there yet. I just called to confirm they are open and my
daughter and I plan to go this weekend and pick blueberries"
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Colorado
Connecticut
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Blueberry Festival at Sweet Wind Farm - on
the 3rd Saturday in July.; Raindate later.
339 South
Road, Route 179, East Hartland, CT 06027. Phone: 860-653-2038. Email:
[email protected]. Directions: Follow route 20 west from
Granby Center into Hartland. Take a left onto route 179, farm is down 1 1/2
miles on right. Take route 219 from Barkhamsted onto Route 179, farm is on
just past town line on left. Click here for a map and directions. Open: PYO Saturdays beginning in July from 10 am to dusk;
Call for appt; - the farm Uses natural growing
practices.
Georgia
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Georgia Blueberry Festival - Early June (June 5th & 6th in 2015)
Alma,
Bacon County, Georgia. Phone: (912) 310-7399. Email:
[email protected]. This event has Arts & Crafts, Entertainment, Various Food
Concessions, Games, Rides, Paintings, Ceramics, Wood Products and many other
activities. The event is free to the public. Vendors are charged according
to category of items for sale. Alma, GA is "Georgia's Blueberry Capital".
There is also a 5K and One Mile Fun Run/Walk. (UPDATED: May 24, 2015,
JBS)
- Berry Festival - mid June - call for this year's date.
Blue Berry Hill Farm Off S. 51, 675 Wrights
Crossing Road, Cobden, IL. Phone: (618) 893-2397. An Old Fashioned Event full
of family fun: Pie Eating Contest, Horse Shoes, Lemonade stand to benefit a
local charity, Pie & Cobbler Baking Contest, and more! Bring a picnic and
spend the day celebrating local food! For more information call (618)
529-3533.
Sponsored by Blue Berry Hill Farm and Neighborhood Co-op Grocery Saturday,
June, 1:00 PM to Sundown.
Indiana
Kentucky
- Kentucky Blueberry Festival - mid June
1103 West Stockton Street, Edmonton, Kentucky 42129. Phone: (270) 432-2601.
Celebrating the Kentucky Proud Blueberry Harvests in the middle of June each
year. The 12th annual Kentucky Blueberry Festival mark it on your calendar and plan to attend!
Annual, Kentucky Blueberry Festival. Come join us for wholesome family
fun! Games on the midway all day! We will have local Kentucky crafters,
home-grown fresh blueberries, free face painting, free blueberry milk
shakes, free kids games, free balloons, live entertainment, games, contests,
prizes, food and snacks, and so much more!
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Reed Valley Orchard - Blueberry Jubilee and Pancake Day the last
Saturday in June each summer (8:00 am to 5:30 pm)
239 Lail Lane, Paris, KY 40361. Phone: (859) 987-6480. Email:
[email protected]. Horse drawn wagon rides all day. Come
prepared to play a game of corn hole with your friends or family. Live music
and line dancing throughout the day, food and crafts. Oven fried pies fruit
pies, ice cream made with our fruit and berries, Bloomin Onions and funnel
cakes will be available. U-pick and pre-picked blueberries and red
raspberries.
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
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Ely Blueberry Arts Festival - Late July ( - see
their website)
Whiteside Park (7th and 8th Avenues on
Sheridan Street), Ely, MN 55731. Phone: (800) 777-7281. Ely Chamber of
Commerce, 1600 E. Sheridan Street, Ely, MN 55731.
This review has more information. Directions: From Duluth take Highway
53 to the Highway 169 exit, about six miles north of Virginia, MN. Free
Admission.
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Lake George Blueberry Festival - July - see their website
( July 27, 2018 )
Lake George Area Association, P.O. Box 268,
Lake George, MN 56458. Phone: (218) 266-2995. No matter how you slice it,
the Lake George Blueberry Festival is fun.
Quilt Show & Raffle, Horseshoe
Tournaments, Mini Pedal Tractor, Seniors & Garden Club Pie Sale, Bingo, Free
Children's Carnival, Senior Ball Game, Fireman Bean Feed, Music, Blueberry
Pancake Breakfast, Bed Races, Kids Sawdust Money Pit, Parade and MORE! For
the Flea Market & Craft Sale call 218-266-3977 or 218-699-3080 for more
info..
Mississippi
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Ocean Springs Red, White & Blueberry Festival - early June
(Saturday, from 10:00 am to 2:00 PM)
Ocean Springs,
Mississippi. Phone: 228-875-4424. The Red, White & Blueberry Festival will
be held in the Depot lot. Ocean Springs Fresh Market vendors will be set up.
Ocean Springs Chamber will offer free scoops of ice-cream to help you cool
down.
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Poplarville Blueberry Jubilee - Blueberry Jubilee Day June
Poplarville, MS.
See this page for contact phone numbers. Directions:
click here for directions. The Blueberry Jubilee is an arts and crafts
fair held the second Saturday in June of each year. Located in downtown
Poplarville, Mississippi, the Blueberry Jubilee attracts about 10,000
visitors each year. The Jubilee features arts & crafts, storytelling, live
entertainment, lots of food, and down home southern hospitality.
Missouri
Montana
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
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Lexington Blueberry Festival - mid-August (in 2016, August 18 to
21st)
200 North Plymouth Street, Lexington, OH 44904. Phone:
217-855-3546. Open: Directions: Interstate 71 exit 165, Route 97 3 miles to
Lexington, turn right at main stoplight downtown square, 1 mil north to
Lexington Community Park.
Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, only.
Click here for our Facebook page. blueberries, produce for sale, parking
provide free, gift shop, snacks and refreshment stand, parade, musical
entertainment, carnival rides, restrooms, picnic area, face painting, FREE
admission, See these pages for:
LATEST PICTURES, SCHEDULE,
LIVE MUSIC,
PAGEANTS,
PARADE
5K RUN & COLOR BLAST,
BLUEBERRY BASH,
LIVE ANIMALS,
CAR & BIKE SHOW ,
VOLLEYBALL,
PET IDOL,
HIGHLAND GAMES,
SENIOR EVENTS,
Vendors,
AUCTION,
FOOD VENDORS,
DIRECTIONS/PARKING,
CONTACT US.
Click here for our Facebook page. (ADDED: July 10, 2016)(ADDED:
July 10, 2016)
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
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The Chattanooga Market Blueberry Festival - Sunday, June
28, 2015 from 11:00am - 4:00pm
1829 Carter St, Chattanooga, Tennessee
37408. Phone: (423) 648-2496. Email:
[email protected].
BLUEBERRIES! Fresh-picked, in a pie, jelly & jam, sweet salsa, bushes to
plant, lotions & candles and more things blueberry at Chattanooga Market
for the Blueberry Festival. Patrons can enter in one of our blueberry
pie-eating contests, featuring fresh baked pies made by the Culinard
Cooking Institute and prepared with fresh, local blueberries. Win a pie
to take home! And don't miss our much anticipated "You be The Judge"
pie-eating contest, featuring a handful of our Hamilton County Court
Judges - it's a little messy, but a lot of fun. *Sign up at the Market
Information Desk. (ADDED: May 234 2015, JBS)
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington, D.C.
Washington State
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Burlington's Berry Dairy Days - mid June
Burlington, WA.
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Mossyrock Blueberry Festival - First Saturday in August
Mossyrock, WA. Phone: 360-983-3734. Email:
[email protected]. This is a one day festival that includes
musical events, a parade, a car show and lots of fun community events for
all ages. There is free music on the lawn in the middle of town, a genuine
home town parade, pie eating contest, quilt show, a great old car show, and
more! Don't miss our public market, a regular Saturday event! Take home lots
of our local blueberries and sample what our country cooks can do with them.
Enjoy what small town living at it's best is all about.
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Blueberry festivals in other countries
Blueberries are thought of as a uniquely American fruit, but
there are very similar berries in other countries. A huckleberry or
Saskatoon, found in Canda and parts of the U.S. are related to the
blueberry. In the UK, you may find a whorlberry or
whortleberry and, in Scotland, blaeberry. And through much of
Europe, a bilberry. Bilberries are very dark blue berries
about half as big as a blueberries (think a pea). They are very tart
/ sour and have some sweetness, with yellowish insides.
There is almost no information about these festivals online, so
if you know of any, let me know, and I'll add the details here!
France
- Mille Club
67110 Dambach
Alsace
- Stadium
rue de Saint Pierre
67140 Stotzheim
Etoile
Sportive Stotzheim
Czech
- Blueberry Fest Borovany - early July
Borovany., Directions: PS:
48.89843567689728, 14.642248749732971
Organiser
Informační
centrum Borovany
Žižkovo náměstí 1
373 12 Borovany
you
can purchase blueberry jam, pancakes, cakes, cream horns,
blueberry port wine, earrings, mugs and other gift items, in
addition to ordinary refreshments. The program is punctuated
with exhibitions, concerts, lectures, theater performances for
children and contests, such as eating blueberry-filled dumplings
and cakes or the World Championships in stuffing the most
blueberries into one's mouth.
Ireland
- Bilberry Sunday
Ardagh, Longford, Ireland
Bilberry
Sunday is a charming old festival that lives only in Ireland's
distant memory. Celebrated in mid-summer, it was once a day when
people went to hillsides and peat lands in groups to collect
bilberries, and sometimes find a spouse.
Italy
(English websites)