2024 California Sweet Corn Festivals: Where, When and More to Find a Sweet Corn Festival Near You!

Looking for a Sweet Corn festival in April 2024? There is no other listing as complete and current as this list, just updated! Sweet Corn festivals are held through the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia and much of the world. All the Sweet Corn festivals we can find are listed on this page! If you love Corn, look for a festival near you below! And I'm looking for more Sweet Corn 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. 

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!

2024 California Sweet Corn Festivals

California

Corn typically ripens from  to in California. July and August dominates throughout most of the U.S.as the months for Corn production (and festivals) .

There are two general types of Corn festivals 1) community festivals, usually organized by a church, school, local Chamber of commerce or a town and 2). Corn festival held at and by a farm. They are different in what they offer, and community festivals tend to be less expensive so they are grouped separately. (of course not all states and areas have both.)
Following the festival listings are links to our easy to follow directions about making freezing corn, canning corn much more.

Community Corn Festivals

• Brentwood Cornfest - July
  Oak Street & Second, Brentwood, CA. Music, fireworks on Friday night, cooking contests, vintage car show, food, kids fun zone. Note: It wasn't held in 2014 nor 2015: For the second year in a row, the Brentwood Corn Festival is not going to take place this 2015.  In its place, the Harvest Time Festival is scheduled for mid-July in Downtown Brentwood.  Read the La Habra Corn Festival - early August
   El Centro/Lions Park, Cypress and Erna Streets, La Habra, CA. Phone: 562-260-3750. Email: Cornzilla49@gmail.com. Parking in neighborhoods around park. Directions: https://www.google.com/maps/&URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everythingbrentwood.com/harvest-time-festival-2015-press-release.html">press release for this year's Harvest Time Festival.
• La Habra Corn Festival - early August
   El Centro/Lions Park, Cypress and Erna Streets, La Habra, CA. Phone: 562-260-3750. Email: Cornzilla49@gmail.com. Parking in neighborhoods around park. Directions: https://www.google.com/maps/. Lions Club rides food vendors and fun. The Corn Festival is the signature event for the La Habra Host Lions Club. It has been a success for decades and continues to be the highlight of the social calendar in La Habra. Located at El Centro /Lions Park, the festival covers an entire weekend and includes numerous rides and attractions, independent food, game and craft booths, a market place, live music, a car opportunity draw contest and Miss La Habra, the club queen and her court!

Farm Corn Festivals

In addition to community and church festivals, some private farms have their own Corn festivals.  See each farm for this year's dates (they often do not announce them until the end of June). Also, scroll down to see the links to recipes, freezing, canning and jam making directions at the bottom of the page.

• We will be adding these as we find them;  Please write me, if you know of any to add!

Related Corn Information:

• Harvesting, storing and cooking corn.

Freezing Corn

You can easily freeze the sweet corn and have that great taste in the dead of winter! 

• Freezing whole ears of corn on the cob
• Freezing corn, cut off the cob

Canning Corn

This too, is easy... but it DOES require a Pressure Canner.  You cannot safely do this with a water bath canner.  Food poisoning is no joke!

• Here is how to can corn!
•  how to make canned creamed corn.
• Southern Chow-Chow (also called Piccalilli)
• Pickled corn relish
• How to make sweet corn ice cream

 

For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!