Featuring fantastic foods, celebrity chefs, marvelous music, area artisans, goofy games and lots of garlic - all in support of a healthy environment and vital rural communities in Minnesota.

Schedule of Events:

9:55 a.m.
Opening Ceremony
In front of the MN Grown Garlic Building

10:00 a.m.
Festival Officially Opens
Kids Activities Begin, Garlic Buds Kids Tent
Entertainment Starts, Entire Festival Grounds
Garlic Growing Contest Entry Submissions Opens, MN Grown Garlic Building
"The Garlic Grower is In" Advice Booth Opens, MN Grown Garlic Building
All Food & Beverage Service Opens
Lakewinds Food Co-op10:30 a.m.
Chef Demo: Montana Rasmussen, Roasted Garlic Seeded Crackers
Lakewinds Local Foods Tent, MN Cooks Chef Stage


11:00 a.m.
Homesteading Talk: “Eat Fresh from your Garden for Months”
Commercial Building, Meet Your Farmer Stage

11:30 a.m.
Chef Demo: Chef Shelagh Mullen, Black Garlic and Tomato ChutneyLakewinds Food Co-op
Lakewinds Local Foods Tent, MN Cooks Chef Stage


11:30 a.m.  Kids Tent
Dance & Sing with The Narren

12:00 p.m.
Homesteading Talk: "Include the Kids in Homestead Life”
Commercial Building, Meet Your Farmer Stage

12:30 p.m.Lakewinds Food Co-op
Chef Demo: Morgan Baum, Charred Scallion, Garlic and Preserved Lemon Feta Dip
Lakewinds Local Foods Tent, MN Cooks Chef Stage


1:00 p.m.
Homesteading Talk: "The Top 3: Chicken, Pig & Dairy Cow”
Commercial Building, Meet Your Farmer Stage

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Kite Making
Beside the Garlic Buds Kids Tent

1:20 p.m.
You can be in the Promenade!
Join us at the Twin Silos (see the map)

1:37 p.m. precisely
The Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade
Entire Festival Grounds
Street Dance in front of the Garlic Building

Lakewinds Food Co-op2:00 p.m.
Chef Demo: Chef Beth Fisher, Black Garlic Herb Aioli with Garden Veggies
Lakewinds Local Foods Tent, MN Cooks Chef Stage

2:30 p.m.
Homesteading Talk: "Homesteader's Panel"
Commercial Building, Meet Your Farmer Stage

3:00 p.m.Lakewinds Food Co-op
Chef Demo: Chef Mateo Mackbee, Krewe
Lakewinds Local Foods Tent, MN Cooks Chef Stage

4:00 p.m.MN Grown
Garlic Growing Contest Awards
MN Grown Garlic Building

5:00 p.m.
Festival Ends