Blackberry Festivals in 2024: Where, When and More to Find a Blackberry Festival Near You!

Looking for a Blackberry festival in December 2024? There is no other listing as complete and current as this list, just updated! Blackberry festivals are held through the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia and much of the world. All the Blackberry festivals we can find are listed on this page! If you love Blackberries, look for a festival near you below! And I'm looking for more Blackberry festivals! Please write me, if you know of any to add!  I update the dates as soon as the festivals publish their information, but you can always click on the links (usually the name of the festival) to see the current information on the festival's own website. 

Especially this year, due to Coronavirus, be sure to click on the links (the blue, underlined name of the each festival) to confirm this year's dates on the website for each festival. If they don't have a website, call the phone number provided, but ALWAYS CONFIRM THIS YEAR'S DATES AND TIMES BY EITHER VIEWING THEIR WEBSITE OR CALLING.

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Blackberry Festivals in 2024: Where, When and More to Find a Blackberry Festival Near You!

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• For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!

• how to make blackberry jam at home!
• How to make Blackberry jelly
• Easy recipe for seedless blackberry pie!

• Blackberry picking tips and more information about blackberries.

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United States

• Know of any others? Write me!

Alabama

Alaska

Arkansas

Arizona

• Mortimer Farms Blackberry Festival - Typically in July
  12907 East State Route 169, Dewey, AZ 86327. Phone: (928) 830-1116. Email: Mortimerfarmsaz@gmail.com. Open: Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Picking updates: Click here for picking updates. Directions: On the corner of 169 and 69 in Dewey, Arizona. From Phoenix: I-17 to Cortez Junction. Turn North on Highway 69. Drive 10 Miles to farm on Right. Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check, Debit cards, Visa, MasterCard, Discover. Click here for our Facebook page. Enjoy our farm animal encounter and farm-inspired rides, games, and activities. Enjoy the pick-your-own blackberry experience and special entertainment.Farm Market Open Daily 8 to 6 We also grow a variety seasonal vegetables, strawberries and raise fabulous meat. All in which is available in our Country Store. We grow all the ingredients of a specially blended Arizona feed ration. This specially blended feed has all the vitamins and minerals needed to raise and produce fabulous meat including our amazing turkey, pork, Black Angus Beef, and chicken. oin us for the Mortimer Farms Harvest Party and our Pumpkin and Corn Maze Festival! Don't miss all of the family friendly festival activities and terrific food we have in store fort your group this season! Plan your trip today Uses natural growing practices, beans, beets, carrots, corn (sweet), cucumbers, eggplants, flowers, horseradish, herbs or spices, melons, onions, peas, peppers, pumpkins, rhubarb, summer squash, winter squash, strawberries, tomatoes, other vegetables, watermelons, Turkeys (organic, not-hormone-fed), Fresh eggs, Cider mill (fresh apple cider made on the premises), gift shop, porta-potties are available, restrooms, picnic area, face painting, jumping pillow, ziplines, train rides (train on a track), trike track, pedal kart track, mining for gems, petting zoo, farm animals, birthday parties, weddings and wedding parties, school tours, group reservations, events at your location (call for info)

California

• Blackberry Festival - they stopped having this one YEARS ago...
  Anderson Marsh State Historic Park, 8825 Highway 53, Lower Lake, CA. No longer held, see this news article.
• Cobb Annual Blackberry Cobbler Festival in Cobb, CA - , Sales of the products made from blackberries,, Baked items for sale, Deserts for sale (like strawberry shortcake, blueberry pie, etc.) , Best pie contest (enter your pie!), Crafts and crafters sales and exhibitions, Food vendors, Live music, picnic area, Free parking, petting zoo, restrooms
  16451 Golf Rd., Cobb, CA 95426. Email: Bottlerockcandlestudio@gmail.com. Open: August 24, 2024; 11 am to 5 pm; 2024 is the 4th annual festival.. Directions: See their Facebook page for directions. Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Free, no payments needed . There will be a Blackberry Cobbler recipe contest with prizes awarded as gift cards from local businesses. All the beer and wine will be locally sourced. Click here for our Facebook page. . (ADDED: July 22, 2024, Suggested by a visitor)
• Knott's Berry Farm Boysenberry and Raspberry Festival - Returning in 2023
  8039 Beach Boulevard, Buena Park, CA 90620. Phone: 714-220-5200. Formerly a farm and now an amusement park, Knott's Berry Farm is the birthplace of THE Boysenberry and each spring, Knott's celebrates the flavorful berry and its historic roots during the Knott's Boysenberry Festival with unique food and live entertainment. The three-week food festival features over 75 one-of-a-kind boysenberry inspired dishes, drinks and more, plus foot-stompin' entertainment, the Wine and Craft Brew Tasting Garden, and family fun everyone will love! From sun up to sun down, the festival offers good ol' fashion food, fun and entertainment. Pick up a tasting card to sample a few of the most popular boysenberry dishes in the park. For guests with a hankerin' for some live entertainment, the options are endless with live music throughout the park. The limited-time food festival is included with admission to Knott's Berry Farm. The Knott's Boysenberry Festival will return 2023.
  The Knott's Boysenberry Festival is our annual food-inspired event that celebrates the park's historic roots by highlighting the little berry that started it all, the boysenberry. Indulge in a tantalizing lineup of dishes ranging from savory foods with a boysenberry twist to one-of-a-kind specialty desserts and drinks that you can only find at Knott's Berry Farm during this limited-time food festival. In addition to the numerous food and drink offerings, the Knott's Boysenberry Festival offers a wide selection of local crafters, live music, musical stage shows, and fun activities for guests of all ages to enjoy. This year's event will introduce entirely new food offerings featuring a selection of more than two dozen food and drink items.
  Boysenberry Festival Food and Beverage offerings will be available starting at 10 AM to 1 hour prior to park close.
• Round Valley Blackberry Festival - August weekend
  Covelo, CA. Live music, kids activities, square dance, car show, 5k run, etc. 
• Westhaven Blackberry Festival - annually on the last Sunday of July from 10 am to 4 pm
  Westhaven Fire Department, 446 6th Avenue, Trinidad, CA 95570. Join neighbors and friends at the Annual Westhaven Blackberry Festival at Westhaven Fire Hall on Sixth Avenue. There are sales of fresh blackberry pies, jams, and other delicious food and beverages. The proceeds will benefit the Westhaven Volunteer Fire Department. There will be music, vendors, games for the kids and tours of the fire station and fire trucks. No pets, please. Click here for a link to our Facebook page.

Colorado

Connecticut

• White Silo Farm & Winery Annual Blackberry Festival - Saturday and Sunday in mid-August from 12 pm to 5pm.
  32 Route 37 East, Sherman, CT 06784. Phone: 860-355-0271. Spend a day on our farm sampling our fresh blackberry recipes. Free farm museum, winery and field tours. Picked  blackberries available for purchase. Food, Wine, Tours, Live Music. Click on "events on their website.

Florida

• Rype and Readi Blackberry Festival and Family Farm Lunch - closed
  5780 County Rd 305, Elkton, FL 32033.UPDATE for 2022, Google says they are permanently closed.

• Wild Blackberry Festival in Jasper Florida - The Wild Blackberry Festival is the second Saturday of June each year, from 8am to 2pm
  501 North East First Avenue, Jasper, FL 32052. Phone: 386-792-1300. Alternate Phone: 386-792-2725. Fax: 386-792-0559. Email: hamcoc@windstream.net. Open: Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 7 am to 9 pm Click here and search the events calendar for current open hours, days and dates. Directions: From South: Take I-75 to exit 451,Jasper,Live Oak, US Highway 129. Drive north approximately 5 miles on Highway 129. Turn left at first traffic light. From North: I-75 to exit 460, Madison, Jasper, State Road 6. Drive south approximately 5 miles on State Road 6 (Merge on US Highway 41). Go through second traffic light. Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, only. Wild Black Berry Bake off, pancake breakfast, country store, children games & crafts, amusements, crafts, entertainment and antique car shows. Free admission. farm market, snacks and refreshment stand, restrooms, picnic area, face painting, Bouncy castle or moon bounce, pony rides, events at your location.   

Georgia

Idaho

• Juliaetta Annual Car Show and Blackberry Festival - always the second Saturday in September
  Juliaetta Community Improvement Association, Box 229, Juliaetta, ID 83535. Phone: (208) 791-6817. Fax: (208) 276-7207. Email edsetc@tds.net. Directions: 21 Miles North of Lewiston on Hwy 3. Annual festival featuring musical entertainment, classic cars, pancake breakfast, firefighter BBQ, games, raffles, artistic craft vendors blackberry goodies, pancake breakfast, BBQ, and live music! No Fee to attend.

Illinois

Indiana

• Wild Blackberry Farms -  We will be having our Annual Blackberry Festival at Wild Blackberry Farms on Saturday, July from 8 am to 8 pm
  10728 S 700 W, Fortville, IN 46040. Phone: (317) 502-1210. Email: hello@wildblackberryfarms.com. Open: Call for current hours. Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Typical blackberry season is first of July through end of August. Hours and availability of blackberries varies. Please see our website and social media posts for most up to date information. blackberries.  Directions: 1/2 mile south of Ingalls post office on 700 West (South Alfonte Street).. We minimize use of pesticides and other chemicals. Payment: Cash, Venmo, PayPal, Debit cards, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AmEx. Click here for our Facebook page. We are a family-owned blackberry farm and wedding and event venue located on 40 wooded, rolling acres in Fortville, Indiana, just 10 minutes northeast of Fishers. We are conveniently located to Carmel, Greenfield, Noblesville, Westfield, Indianapolis and the surrounding communities and within approximately 10 miles of Interstate 70 and State Road 9 and within 5 miles Interstate 69 and State Road 13. Minimizes chemical and pesticide use, blackberries, Honey from hives on the farm, Maple Syrup from trees on the farm, Fresh eggs, U-pick and already picked, farm market, restrooms, picnic area you may bring your own food, pony rides, petting zoo, farm animals, birthday parties, weddings and wedding parties, school tours, events at your location (call for info)(UPDATED: May 29, 2021)

Iowa

Kansas

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Maine

Michigan

Mississippi

Missouri

• Caledonia Vineyard Blackberry Festival - Saturday, in late July from 10 am to 7 pm
  Caledonia Vineyard, 10028 Hull Rd, Caledonia, Missouri 63631. Phone: 573-631-4862. Just West of historic downtown Caledonia. 5 cover charge to get in, kids 10 and under are free.  Food and drinks will be available throughout the day.  A variety of entertainment, vendors, door prizes, and events will be going on throughout the day. Come out and enjoy the much-anticipated Festival Celebration! Join Twelve Mike Creek once again at the Blackberry Festival, then stop by the Big Yellow House For all things Blackberry!

Montana

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

• North Carolina Blackberry Festival - Saturday and Sunday, July  (mid July, every year)
  Downtown Lenoir, NC.  Phone: 828-726-0616. Fax: 828-726-0385. Email: visitors@caldwellcochamber.org. The annual North Carolina Blackberry Festival will be in downtown Lenoir beginning at 10 a.m. Lineberger Farms will be onhand during the day with fresh blackberries for sale, along with other blackberry items. A variety of food vendors will be available and local restaurants will be open. Children's activities all day; a children's area will offer free fun throughout the day on the Square sponsored by the Family Resource Center in Lenoir.

Ohio

Oklahoma

• McLoud Blackberry Festival -  first weekend (Friday and Saturday) in July: open from 5 pm to midnight; 8am to midnight with fireworks at 10pm Saturday
  McLoud, OK. Phone: 405-964-6566.Email: Festival@mcloudchamber.com. The festival began in the 1940's as a celebration of the end of harvest season for the local cash farm crop, blackberries. The town received national media coverage when the Blackberry Growers Association sent a crate of berries to President Harry Truman. The association disbanded in 1963 due to a poor market and farmers moved on to a more lucrative crop. While blackberry farming may no longer be the agricultural strength of McLoud, the festival celebrated each year continues to be an exciting event for the town and draws thousands of attendees from throughout the nation.

Oregon

• Illinois Valley Wild Blackberry & Arts & Crafts Festival - August, Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm and Sunday, 9 am to 4 pm.
  Cave Junction, Oregon. Held in early-August, every year, just as the native Oregon wild blackberries ripen. Many food items for sale at the festival feature the blackberry as a primary ingredient. Blackberry themes are also evident on many of the visual art and craft items sold.
• Lowell Blackberry Jam Festival - Late July, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
  Rolling Rock Park, 101 N Shore Dr, Lowell, OR 97452. Phone: (866) 516-5534. Email: info@blackberryjamfestival.com. Mark your calendar for our free Blackberry Jam Festival. Come to Rolling Rock Park and enjoy great music, unique crafts, car and quilt shows, fishing derby, 5k, delicious food and more. Located in the heart of the Willamette Valley, the Lowell Blackberry Jame Festival is a great way to top off a summer weekend trip. Bring your appetite - we even have a pie eating contest (blackberry, of course!). Our Blackberry Jam Festival has a variety of fun events for all different ages. Find your fun!
• Sutherlin Blackberry Festival - August
  Sutherlin, Oregon. A fun blackberry festival with events like mud volleyball and a classic car cruise, there is guaranteed to be an event for anyone. Start Friday off dancing at Dakota St. Shopping Center parking lot to the new band The Valley Boys, who will be entertaining the BlackBerry Festival this year. They put on great shows that include audience interaction, stage antics and dynamic lighting. Saturday, enjoy a huge car show, BlackBerry cook-off, mud volleyball, BMX races, four wheel drive Barrel Races and lots of entertainment in the park including food and craft booths. Top the evening off with the classic car cruise and a dance in the streets of Sutherlin.The fun continues on Sunday with the motorcycle show, chili cook-off, diaper derby, and of course, the mud races. Along with food, activities and entertainment there will also be several prize drawings. Don't miss your opportunity to win one of this years' many fantastic prices.

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

• Lynnville Blackberry Festival - Saturday, June
  Lynnville, TN.  Phone: (931) 527-3158. The Annual Lynnville Blackberry Festival claims to have the "World's Best Blackberry Pie." With a day of activities planned by the Lynnville Community Club and the Town of Lynnville, who are organizers of this festival. Billie May and RTM Productions are the sponsors of the festival. Vendors of all types will be set up on the Lynnville Square selling their wares. (If you would like a booth, call 931-527-3922 or 931-527-0032.) There will be music, dancers, moon walks, bouncy castles, a rock wall to climb, and Mencer's Pony Rides. For a cost of $6/plate, blackberry pie, beans and poke salad will be available in the Lynnville Municipal Building from 11 am to l p.m. . Blackberry pie, by itself is $2.

Texas

Utah

• Mt. Naomi Farms Blackberry Festival - SUNDAY, mid-AUGUST
  1285 East 4500 North, Hyde Park, UT 84318. Phone: 435-232-4525. Email: brenda@mtnaomi.com. Open: Monday to Saturday from 7:30 am until noon, August to October. Directions: Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check. Click here for our Facebook page. See mtnaomifarms Facebook page for crop availability. blackberries, corn (sweet), grapes, pumpkins, raspberries (Autumn, red), raspberries (Autumn, yellow), raspberries (Spring, black), porta-potties are available

Vermont

Virginia

• Blackberry Delight Shenandoah National Park - Saturday - late July from 10 am to 5 pm UPDATE for 2019, Does anyone have current information, is the festival still being held?  It has disappeared from their website.  If you know,  please write me
  Skyland Resort, Skyline Drive, Luray, Virginia 22835. Phone: 877-847-1919. Directions: mile 41.7 and 42.5 on Skyline Drive. In mid-summer blackberries ripen in the open areas along trails and streams in Shenandoah. Celebrate the wonderful flavor of this seasonal berry as we create a unique experience. Come to Skyland Resort and sample foods such as Pulled Pork with a Blackberry BBQ Sauce, Grilled Chicken with Blackberry Relish, Blackberry Cobbler, Blackberry Jellies & Syrup, Blackberry Fruit Salad, Blackberry Wine, Blackberry Beer, Blackberry Lemonade, and Blackberry Ice Cream. Enjoy the live entertainment featuring blue grass music and dancers plus story telling and children's crafts. It's a fun day for the entire family. (ADDED: July 13, 2014, JBS, ALst)
• Westmoreland Berry Farm First Annual Blackberry Festival -   mid-July,Saturday and Sunday
  1235 Berry Farm Lane, Colonial Beach, Virginia 22443. Phone: (804) 224-9171. We will have events packed with fun for the whole family, as well as blackberry pies, blackberry sundaes, blackberry butters, blackberry pints and blackberry preserves. It's blackberry everything!  Event Details
  • Blackberry Picking from 9 am to 4 pm
  • Wagon rides from 1 pm to 3 pm $1/person (pickers will receive a reimbursement coupon)
  • Hippity hop balls (no charge)
  • Our fun 100 ft slide (no charge)
  • Let the kids play on our new play area
  • Pie Eating Contest Saturday and Sunday 2pm (Winner gets a $15 WBF Gift Certificate)
  • Feed Twinkle on the goat walk or his friends in Nanny's Pen
  • Visit the "Kids": Chandler, Razzmatazz, Chester, and Freedom
  • Hike the adjoining Voorhees Nature Preserve
  • Have lunch, snacks, and ice cream at Twinkle's Cafe and relax on the veranda overlooking our fields surrounded by the Rappahannock River.
  • At our Market buy some pie, fresh-local in season produce, preserves and toppings, and much..much..more

Washington, D.C.

Washington State

• Bremerton Blackberry Festival - Labor Day weekend, September
  c/o Bremerton Main Stream Association, 245 Fourth Street, #201, Bremerton, WA 98337. Phone: 360-377-3041. Fax: 360-373-9053. Email: Carol Atkinson, ca@bremertonmsa.org. Hours: Saturday,10 AM to 8 pm, Sunday 10 AM to 7 pm and Monday, 10 AM to 6 pm. Located on the Bremerton Boardwalk in the heart of downtown the Bremerton Blackberry Festival draws over 50,000 people from around the country.
• Joyce Daze Blackberry Festival - Annually, the first Saturday in August (Saturday typically in early August)
  Joyce, WA. Phone: Ed McKay at 360-928-3331. Email: photopro@tenforward.com. Starts at 7 a.m. with a pancake breakfast and lasts until 3:30 pm. .The festival begins with a pancake breakfast held at the Grange Hall, followed by a crafts fair and parade, and ends with a raffle.  Highlights of the festival include homemade pies with the much-heralded local blackberries, a parade, children's activities, a juried arts and crafts show, salmon bake, vendor's booths, demonstrations and live entertainment. The festival's main attraction is homemade blackberry pie topped with ice cream which is on sale all day. This year more than 150 pies will be baked. contact  wWld blackberries are the main reason for the festival. The chance to try our wild blackberries in a freshly baked homemade pie attracts people from miles around. The day's events also include games for the kids, a salmon bake and entertainment. Proceeds from the event have provided scholarships for graduating Crescent High School seniors and equipment to the community rescue squad.  Click here for a link to our Facebook page.

West Virginia

• WV Blackberry Festival Clarksburg - permanently canceled
  Clarksburg City Park, Nutter Fort, WV. UPDATE for 2022: The event is permanently closed

Wisconsin

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Canada

British Columbia

• Powell River Blackberry Festival - August
  Willingdon Park, Powell River, BC. Phone: 604-483-9454. Email: cathymacdonald50@yahoo.ca.  Inspired by the dark, juicy fruit that grows wild everywhere in Powell River, the Blackberry Festival  is an annual week-long tradition. Check out live music and visual artists during Arts Alive in the Park (at Willingdon Park), enjoy the Festival of Lights fireworks display, sample puppet shows or pie-eating contests during Townsite Day, or chow down at the community BBQ. The festival's signature dessert is blackberry shortcake topped with whipped cream. The Blackberry Festival Street Party is mid August on Marine Avenue , and is an annual celebration of the blackberry includes a multitude of events around town, highlighted by a massive street party along Marine Avenue on Friday, August 15 from 6 pm to 10 pm.  (ADDED: July 13, 2014, JBS, ALst)

Manitoba

Nova Scotia

Ontario

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Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)

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Australia

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Italy

Japan

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