Join us for this community tradition! The Harvest Festival offers visitors an experience combining history, Ozark culture, and a natural setting with modern amenities and entertainment. Visitors to the Festival can enjoy a country breakfast, live pie auction, food truck provisions, live music, an Arts and Eats market, sorghum pressing demonstrations, craft demonstrations, tours of historic buildings and a quilt show.
Schedule Of Events
DINE WITH US
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Enjoy the Ozark Country Breakfast
$8 - Adults - (Adult festival & breakfast ticket bundle only $12!) $5 - Kids (12 & under)
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM : Food Trucks (prices vary by truck)
3 Chicks Cones- Concessions and Catering, Blue’s Concessions, Dave’s Iron Skillet, Deep South BBQ, Nolen’s Kettle Korn and Cinnamon Roasted Nuts, The Notable Noodle
10:00 AM : Live Pie Auction
Bring your sweet tooth and your pocketbook to ensure you can take home a pie from a community member or local business. This LIVE pie auction is sure to entertain as well as satisfy.
8 AM - 3:30 PM : ENJOY LIVE MUSIC
Put on your dancing shoes or bring a chair to enjoy a full lineup of live music, including:
8:00 AM : Meadow Makers
10:45 AM : Squirrel Jam
12:30 PM : Jumpsuit Jamey and the Can’t Wait to Playboys
2:15 PM : Boonsboro Bandits
2:35 PM : The Broncos
3:00 PM : Cane Hillbillies
Historic Cane Hill Roots Music Groups
8:00 AM - 3:30 PM : ALL DAY ACTIVITIES
Kids Zone : Activities from Macaroni Kids, Washington County 4-H, the University of Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, free face painting, and more!
Arts and Eats Market : Shop for goods and gifts from local artisans and crafters
Sorghum Pressing Demonstration : See the process of pressing sorghum cane with an antique press using local draft horses to transform the cane juice into sorghum molasses!
Craft Demonstrations : Including lace tatting, textile spinning & weaving, blacksmithing, beekeeping, antique tractors, and more
Community Creative Center’s Wheel Mobile : Have a “wheel of a time” as you try your hand throwing pottery. Free 30-minute mini-workshops are available to ages 10 and up.
Quilt Show & Drawing : Featuring antique and contemporary quilts from the region
Historic Building Visits : Take the unique opportunity to peek inside the 1886 Cane Hill College and 1891 Cane Hill Presbyterian Church, and learn about the Kirby-Colburn House, winner of a 2024 Arkansas Preservation Award for Excellence in Preservation through Restoration.
Treasured Chests: 19th Century Furniture by Northwest Arkansas Craftsmen at the Historic Cane Hill Gallery celebrates the rich furniture-making traditions of Northwest Arkansas, featuring selections of more than 25 pieces of historic handcrafted work from Cane Hill and the surrounding area.
Buddy Up with the Bur Oak : Did you know that the state Co-Champion Bur Oak tree grows on HCH’s campus? In addition to its impressive size, this tree is a “witness tree” to the Trail of Tears.
