LAKE SUPERIOR HARVEST FESTIVAL
September 12, 2026
10:00am - 4:00pm
Bayfront Festival Park ~ Free Admission
$10 for parking ~ Zero-Waste
A family-oriented event featuring a huge farmers market, live music all day, expanded Energy Fair experience, nonprofit exhibitors tent, educational demonstrations and much more!
Suggested donation $5/person, $10/family
Check for updates on Facebook!
Zero Waste
We strive to be a zero-waste event! This means that trash will look differently than at other events. We require all our food vendors to use BPI-certified compostable serviceware, which will then go to WLSSD's organics recycling and turn into beautiful soil. There are only 4 waste stations at the festival, and this is on purpose.
Volunteers from Eco-Rotary and others help us help you sort your waste, so that it goes into the proper bin, for only properly-sorted waste will reach its correct final destination. Last year we had only 8 bags of landfill waste after this all-day event, and that includes waste that was already in the park!
Thank you for your cooperation in helping us lead the way to more sustainable events!
Harvest Festival Info:
Volunteer
Choose Your Volunteer Opportunity:
Duluth's Harvest Festival: Sign up HERE, or email lakesuperior@sfa-mn.org
Volunteers will receive snacks, a coupon for a free meal at Csomos Fried Fish, and an SFA T-shirt!
Education & Family Activities
Maypole Dancing at 11:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.
Terrence Smith invites you to join in the fun! In front of the music stage.
Dululth Fiber Guild - A Community of Textile Artists displaying samples of our work & demonstrating weaving, spinning & other fiber techniques. There will be a floor loom to try, plus weaving projects for children, in the Exhibitor Tent.
Forging Community - Blacksmithing
See it up close! In the bowl.
Duluth Folk School
Building Community through hand crafting! Find it in the bowl.
Meet the chickens with Farm Lola!
Find them just west of the Energy Fair.
Music Schedule
10:00 Russ Sackett
11:00 Terrance Smith maypole
11:30 The Has Ben’s
12:15 Woodblind meets Teague Alex
y
1:00 Terrance Smith maypole
1:45 Harlow Pennie’s
2:15 Old 13 String Bandits
3:00 The Trash Cats
Farmers' Market
EBT available and brought to you by Twin Ports Roots Market
- Anahata Herbals
- Bayfield Foods CSA
- Bibon Garlic/ Northwind Farm
- Byrns Greenhouse of Zim
- Dixon's Apple Orchard
- Duluth Flower Farm
- Drifty Acres
- Farm Lande
- Food Farm
- Garlic Girl Duluth & Matilda’s Dog Bakery
- Hodgson Acres
- Little Italy Farms
- Muddy Trails LLC
- Northern HarvestFarm
- Observation Hill Farm
- Pinestick Acres
- Sandy Hill
- Shalomba Farm
- Shoreview Natives
- Spirit Lake Native Foods
- Sörestad
- Stony Brook Farm LLC
- Sweet Land Farm
- Will o the Winds Farm
- Van Low Family Farm
Artisan Foods:
- Bread in the Meadow
- Fräschgoods
- Karl's Bread
- Lots of Love Sweets & More
- Superior Sweets
- Two Harbors Baker
- Duluth’s Best Bread
- BK Nuts
Energy Fair
- Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency
- Citizen's Utility Board of MN
- Cooperative Light & Power
- Ecolibrium 3 - tent host
- Iron Range Partnership for Sustainability
- MN Commerce Dept. Energy Division
- Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light
- Minnesota Power
- Optimum Solar Group
- Tamarack Water Alliance
- Reclaiming Critical Metals
- Renewal by Anderson
Artisans & Food Vendors
Artisans & Food Vendors
- Abundant Wellness
- Birch Botanicals
- Daisy Lily Stitches
- EcoCraft
- EmMe Creations
- Emvee Charms
- Every Now and Then
- Fable Clay Co.
- Full Keel Coffee
- Green Redemption Terrariums
- Iron Raven Metalworks
- Kringles Krafts
- Kron Lume
- Lipskis Naturals
- Marengo Meadow Bees
- Marvelous Melissa
- Mittens and More
- Northland Knits
- Ollie Mae Crafts
- Smiling Son Pottery & Lea's Herbal Skin Care
- Songbird and Co.
- Sweet Cheeks Bake Shop
- Sweet Tooth
- Warm Earth Ceramics
- Window Licker Cannery
Food Court
- Csomos Fried Fish
- Duluth Coffee Company
- El Oasis Del Norte
- Gumbeaux Guys
- Johnny B's
- Love Creamery
- Positively 3rd St. Bakery
- Saigon Cafe
- Sunhees Little Table
Exhibitors
- AICHO
- Chum
- Duluth Community Garden Program
- Duluth Center for Women and Children
- Duluth Fiber Guild
- Ecolibrium 3
- Eco-Rotary
- Farm and Forest Growers
- Lake Superior Freethinkers
- Land Stewardship Project
- League of Women Voters, Duluth - host
- MDA Agricultural Water Quality
- MN Grown
- MN Farmers Union
- Noatun Boats
- St. Louis Cty Master Gardeners
- St. Louis River Alliance
- The North 103.3
- Water Legacy
- Whole Foods Coop
- WLSSD
Festival Map
Sponsorship
Sponsorship opportunities still available! Contact Julie at lakesuperior@sfa-mn.org
Vendor & Exhibitor Info
New Vendors: Please fill out this form. We are allowing past vendors to sign up first, and we have strict criteria that you must comply with. Vendors/exhibitors must live and operate within Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin- the Western Lake Superior region, and you must make/grow what you sell. Food vendors MUST use compostable service ware, and all vendors/exhibitors must strive to help us be a zero-waste event.
Returning vendors: Registration documents will be emailed soon to all returning vendors from "Lake Superior SFA". (Please check your junk mail!)
Pay online HERE.
Directions & Parking Info
Parking is $10/car. We encourage you to take public transportation, walk, bike, or carpool to Bayfront Park. There will be ample bicycle parking at the main entrance.
Overflow parking: There is plently of parking at the DECC garage for $10/car.
Contact Us
Julie Allen
Harvest Festival Director
LS-SFA Chapter Coordinator
1.844.922.5573 Ext. 709. - Call and leave a voicemail.
Email: lakesuperior (at) sfa-mn.org
Harvest Festival Location:
Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth MN
350 Harbor Dr, Duluth, MN 55802
History
The Harvest Festival is a project of the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association, and was founded as an educational outreach program aimed to showcase the local agricultural production of food throughout the Lake Superior region of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. The goal of the event is to help promote sustainable local food production as a key component of a healthier economy, environment and community in the Lake Superior region.
Today the Harvest Festival has grown into a well attended event providing education, training and outreach in a greater effort to develop sustainable communities and economies in our region. The 1-day outdoor event attracts attendance of over 10,000 people of all ages from throughout the greater Twin Ports region.
Check out our other project, started during the 2020 Pandemic: www.RootsandRecipes.org - where you can find recipes featuring local foods, and connect to local farms.
Take a look at our home page of the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association and see our upcoming summer events.
Land Acknowledgement
As the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association, we acknowledge that we are on the traditional Indigenous land of the Lake Superior Anishinaabe. We recognize the Treaty of 1854 which established the ceded territory of the Lake Superior region, which connects us all through this beloved land, our good food, and our shared community. Miigwetch!
