LAKE SUPERIOR HARVEST FESTIVAL

September 12, 2026

10:00am - 4:00pm
Bayfront Festival Park ~ Free Admission
$10 for parking ~ Zero-Wast

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


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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!

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Harvest Festival Info:

Vendor & Exhibitor Info

Sponsorship

Festival Map

Farmers' Market

Energy Fair

Exhibitors

Artisans & Food Vendors

Education & Family Activities

Directions & Parking Info

Volunteer

Music Schedule

Contact Us

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!