Fall Food Festivals

Fall Food Festivals

Southern Vermont, it has to be the food. In this region you’ll find a warm and sophisticated, yet rustic, lifestyle based on family traditions, with authentic and local food experiences. There are plenty of food festivals this fall, many of which offer a great way to experience the flavors of a new destination, while allowing you to try new foods and gather new recipes. Chow down! Check Web sites for updated information.

CANCELLED: 5th Annual Taste of the Deerfield Valley
Sep 10, 10-4p, Mount Snow Base Area Mount Snow, West Dover,
celebratethevalley.com
Voted “Top 10 for the Road” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The event showcases dozens of top restaurants in the area to give the public the opportunity to taste specialty items from each and the chance to vote for their favorite taste. The event is a benefit for the Junior Iron Chef program. Attendees can also shop local crafter and artisan wares and enjoy live music, drink local wine and beer, keep the kids busy w/kid-friendly activities, live cooking demonstrations and win prizes.
 

CANCELLED: Vermont Life Wine & Harvest Festival
Sep 23-25, junction of Rt 9 East and 100 South in Wilmington
and various inns, farms and wineries in the Mount Snow valley, thevermontfestival.com
A weekend showcase for Vermont wines, Vermont specialty foods and artisans of all types celebrating the rich uniqueness, quality and ingenuity of Vermont producers. Named one of Vermont’s “Top 10 Fall Events” by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce and “Top 100 National Event” by the American Bus Association.

Heirloom Apple Tasting Day
Oct 8-10, Tastings at 10, 12 and 2p,
The Scott Farm, 707 Kipling Rd, Dummerston 802 254-6868,
scottfarmvermont.com
A celebration of heirloom apples, fresh, baked and squeezed. Free tastings and history of Scott Farm’s 70 apple varieties with wonderful names such as Esopus Spitzenburg and Ananas Reinette. Apples will be on sale after the tastings.

3rd Annual Grape Stomp
Oct. 9, 11:30-5p, Honora Winery Tasting Room Jacksonville, honorawinery.com
It’s harvest time and what better way to celebrate than stompin’ grapes? Come on down and jump into a barrel full of grapes and give them your best STOMP! Listen and dance to music provided by CK Acoustics from 12-4p, grab a bite and enjoy some wine and hot apple cider! Children and the young at heart will all have a great time. Other activities include a pumpkin decorating station and hay pile jump.

Dummerston’s Annual Apple Pie Festival
Oct 9, 10:30-4p, Evening Star Grange Hall
1006 East-West Rd, Dummerston, 802 254-9158
Enjoy homemade apple pie-sold whole or by the piece, Vermont cheddar cheese, sweet apple cider, doughnuts made right on the spot, ice cream, coffee, books, exotic international crafts, handcrafts and vintage treasures galore. This little festival is a Dummerston tradition showing the grassroots nature of southern Vermont, with a bit of a sweet tooth thrown in.

9th Annual Gilfeather Turnip Festival
Oct 22, Sat, 10-4p, Wardsbaro Town Hall,
Main Street, (Rt 100)
friendsofwardsborolibrary.org
Join the whole town as we celebrate our town’s delicious roots. An entire family-oriented day dedicated entirely to one of Vermont’s tastiest heirloom vegetables, first propagated in Wardsboro in the early 1900s by local farmer, John Gilfeather. Live music, entertainment, activities for children. The Turnip Café serves turnip soup and Turnip Tastings (nominal fee) of recipes created and prepared by Wardsboro “chefs.” Shop at the Turnip Boutique and the craft fair, and farmers’ market for turnip-theme gifts, souvenir t-shirts, turnip movie on VHS cassette and DVD, The Gil-feather Turnip Cookbook, turnips and seeds, apples, cider, organic veggies, breads, honey, Vermont products, specialty foods and local arts and crafts. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Wardsboro Library.