Add a Agriculture-related Festival in the U.S. to PickYourOwn.org

and also www.PickYourOwnChristmasTree.org and www.PumpkinPatchesAndMore.org )

(for Festivals NOT located at a farm)

Are you looking to get your festival noticed by millions of likely customers? Post your information here for free and I will add it to one or more of my "pick-your-own" web sites, as appropriate. Our web sites are free to both festival organizers and consumers, and this, along with the local, national and international scope, ensures that your festival's listing will be seen by consumers in your area!

VERY IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: This page is not for farms! I define "festivals" for the purpose of being listing on one of the fruit or vegetable-specific pages as "community sponsored events"; not festivals held by or at a farm. The reason for this is to provide a page for community festival events which are separate from farms. Farm festivals can easily and more appropriately be identified on the farm's own listing on a State farm page (of which there are hundred, see this page for that form). If your festival is a joint community AND farm event, please write me to explain.

Add your festival: This one form (below) enters your festival into PickYourOwn.org, PickYourOwnChristmasTree.org and PumpkinPatchesAndMore.org, as appropriate. You will receive a confirmation email if you complete the form process (there are 2 or 3 pages).

Correct, Update or Revise your listing - please continue down this page unless you only have one or two minor changes.
If you have several changes, or they are complicated, or you want to rewrite your listing), then press PgDn now to carry on.
If you have only one or two minor changes (like a phone number), use the corrections form.

Delete your entry via the corrections form.

Look for the submit button at the bottom of each form page. When you are done, you will see a big "Thanks!" - if you don't see that, then you must be overlooking a submit button! (after each "submit" the program validates what you have entered (looks for missing information, corrects some misspellings, etc.)

Important Notes:

Just enter the information requested below. The text boxes are generally limited to 400 characters. The Blue Boxes are required, the yellow are optional, but where applicable, the optional information definitely helps customers to come visit your festival. Please be brief, but descriptive - we reserve the right to edit to remove profanity, correct grammar and spelling or trim it down to a reasonable size.

Links - Add links to pages on your website where the form asks for links (but not in the general text boxes)! The Google ads on the banners I put on the external links are what pays for the site, and grows commensurate with the traffic, so again, that keeps it free for both festival organizers and consumers, which helps everyone! In return, I'll ask you to link back to at least one page on pickyourown.org (a recipe, picking tips, whatever ) and that will help YOUR websites ranking in the search engines, too!

Hype - If you want to add several paragraphs of colorful descriptive text about what makes your festival a special visit, that's great, but that's called advertising, which we do, too, for a small annual fee, not a free basic listing (remember, all the extra text ends up costing us, and if I let everyone do that, I couldn't keep it free).

Abbreviations: Please avoid using them. They look unprofessional and often confuse potential customers. The program tries to correct and replace any abbreviations, so if you use them, you may get weird results.

Capital letters - Please do not type in all CAPITAL LETTERS! (It takes me forever to change it to normal, legible type; which must be done manually, because NO ONE WANTS TO READ TYPE LIKE THIS - and that will considerably slow down getting your listing up! Thanks! )

Future plans - I'm in the process of adding databases, which will enable you to log on and make changes more easily and allow much more powerful searches, by fruit, vegetable, area, etc. It should make the website easier for you and for the customers, plus easier to navigate! This should be ready by this winter.

	* = Required information
	= Optional information

Name of the festival, orchard, etc:*

Location - physical address..........* :

Address line 2, if needed:

City*:

State*:

Zip code *:

County the festival is in*:

Country *:

Phone number for information*:

Fax number:

Festivals email address:

The festival's website address (if the festival has it's own website or page somewhere)
http://
Note: A phone number OR an email address (OR BOTH) is required so your customers can check hours and availability before driving out to your festival.

Focus of Fruit / Vegetable festivals

Select the one or more fruit or vegetables that are the focus of the festival *:

apples, applesauce, apple butter asparagus apricots beans beets blackberries blueberries boysenberries lima beans (broad beans) broccoli carrots cherries chestnuts corn (sweet) cranberries cucumbers currants (red and black) eggplant figs flowers grapes gooseberries herbs/spices lavender flower) loganberries marionberries melons nectarines olallieberries onions other berries pears peas peaches pecans peppers persimmons plums pumpkins raspberries rhubarb saskatoons squash (summer) squash (winter) strawberries tayberries tomatoes other vegetables walnuts OTHERS not listed here (enter them in the 'Other information' box near the bottom of this page)

Honey Maple Syrup Apple Cider Wine

Organic foods (as a focus)

Halloween and/or Generic Fall Events

Harvest Festival pumpkin patch (customers pick in the field) pumpkin patch (pumpkins already gathered in from the field) train rides corn maze haunted corn maze straw / hay maze child-size hay mazes corn cannon horse-drawn hayrides tractor-driven hayrides wagon rides

Christmas Trees and Winter Events

Christmas themed festival or amusement Winter festival or amusement
Santa appearances Live reindeer Christmas decorations
Christmas trees will be for sale
Sleigh rides hayrides wagon rides Train rides

Facilities and Other Events

Produce (fruit or vegetables) for sale   Parking provide free   Parking provide for a fee   Gift shop
refreshments, snacks   parade   musical entertainment   Carnival rides   Cooking or fruit/veg judging
restrooms   picnic area face painting   pony rides   petting zoo   farm animals
events at YOUR location (the customer's location)

Note: see "Halloween/Fall" and "Christmas/Winter" events, above, for horse drawn hay rides, tractor driven hayrides, wagon rides and/or sleigh rides. If they are available at other times of the year, too, indicate that in the "other information" section below.

Event Month

In which month(s) does this festival normally take place? *

January February March April May June
July August September October November December

Open Hours/Dates and General Information

What are the dates and hours that your festival is held? *
            (Example: "Monday to Friday, 8 am to 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday, 7 am to 5 pm."
            Please, try to use "to" rather than " - ", as in "10 am to 5 pm". Hyphens can be
            misinterpreted by both people and computer programs. )
            Note: whatever you write here with be preceded by "Open: ",
            so DON'T start off with the word "Open", as it will read very poorly.

NOTE: If you want to direct visitors to an hours page on your website, just enter
"See our website for current hours." in the field below AND then enter the address of your hours page in the following field.

Open days and hours page: If the festival has a web page that the current opening / closing hours and days or dates put address of that specific page here. (NOTE: if it is only on your festival's home page: enter that url here again):
http://

Directions to the festival from a common point(s):
     Note: whatever you write in this box with be preceded by "Directions: ",
         so DON'T start off with the word "Directions", as it will read very poorly.
        Do NOT include links to a directions page - put that in the following field.

Directions or Map Page: If you also have a page with directions or a Mapquest or other map page, just enter the url here and I will include the link to it. If not, I'll try to find the Mapquest map for you: (NOTE: don't repeat your festival's home page: enter a link here that is specific to directions. If you website is framed; provide the url of the frame page that has the directions on it, not the frameset. The idea is to take them to your directions with as few clicks as possible):
http://

Other information, crops not listed above, specials, features, instructions, events, organic certifications, etc.: Here's a place to enter things NOT covered previously, or to explain "other" boxes. This will be published in the listing.

Payment methods accepted from your customers*:

Cash Check Visa/MasterCard Discover Amex

Survey Information (To help us serve you, this won't be published)

If you don't have a web site, would you like information from us about your own
low-cost page on pickyourown.org? Yes No
(click here to open a new page with more information, just close that page when you're done to return here)

Are you interested in information about low cost online advertising on
www.pickyourown.org for your festival? Yes No
(click here to open a new page with more information, just close that page when you're done to return here)

General Comments and Feedback to Pickyourown.org (This will NOT appear in the listing)

This is a festival!

Your name (won't be displayed on the website) *
                                                                                        (first name)       (last name)

Your email address (also will not be displayed) *
It will help us to contact you now to confirm your entry and later for updates. You can enter a different email address from the one posted in your listing, if you would like! Enter carefully, I have noticed that 10% of all email address are being mis-typed, which means I can not reply to you and your entry may not go in.

IMPORTANT:
Type any number in this next box (this is necessary to stop spam programs):
(Note: if you do not type in a number, or type anything else in this box, your email will NOT be delivered). Spam programs can not follow these instructions, only humans can.

Remember: There is NO cost to list (or update your festival's listing) on PickYourOwn.org!!

Name of the festival, orchard, etc:*
Location - physical address..........* :
Address line 2, if needed:
City*:
State*:
Zip code *:
County the festival is in*:
Country *:
Phone number for information*:
Fax number:
Festivals email address: