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The 2025 Pittsburgh County Fair!
Saturday September 13th
11am- 6pm at
Allegheny Commons Park West
FREE!
Welcome to the home of the Pittsburgh County Fair- an event celebrating urban agriculture, and all things local, handmade, and homegrown in the City of Pittsburgh! We are thrilled for our third Fair, with more events, activities, and contests being added each year. The Pittsburgh County Fair prioritizes local in a big way, meaning that the activities and ingredients are sourced from our own farm and others nearby, and that we feature 100% small-scale local buisnesses, artisans, and entertainment.
***Winners of the Tomato, Apple Pie, & Poultry Contests receive a Pgh County Fair Belt Buckle, custom made by Guinevere Marrow
Link for some of this year’s contests & special activities:
Best Tomato in Pgh Contest
Apple Pie Bake Off Registration
Urban Backyard Poultry Show
Fiber Arts Contest
100% Western Pa Grown Baseball
Plant Variety Show
We are welcoming all types of participation including sellers, food, drink, entertainment, educators, artists. To learn more and apply please fill out our Vendor & Participant Application.
Pittsburgh County Fair in the news: WESA, Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Magazine, Talk Pittsburgh, Pitt News
A rundown of this year’s fun includes: mainstage audience competitions of grape stomping, sauerkraut mash-off, and the oat milk chug (made with all local ingredients). Participate in contests like the Apple Pie Bake-Off, Best Tomato in Pgh, Natural Fiber Arts Contest, and Urban Backyard Poultry Show, and win yourself a custom Fair belt buckle. Demonstrations include sorghum pressing, fresh-leaf indigo dyeing, processing flax into fiber (breaking & scrutching). Check out the wild mushroom id, and an wild edible plant walk. Try your hand at spinning fibers by hand and learn to knit, reuse crafting, dye a pair of shoe laces with madder (a red dye plant we grown at our farm) or dye an Pgh County Fair t-shirt in indigo. See how you do at the Farmers Market Olympics and check out the “urban” farm tool show. Give a toss to our 100% homegrown and handmade baseball, and check out the Garden of Decay and community Emotional Composting (Each year’s emotional compost gets used to grow the Fair activity crops like sorghum, indigo, & flax). Learn and explore about native trees and plants, hyper-local honey and beekeeping, foraged cordage, book repair, fermentation, and seed-saving. Enjoy music, line dancing, a petting zoo, pony rides, and local food, drinks, and beer, and a local farmers picnic and games.
Farm Stand: Now Open!
Ferment Pittsburgh’s urban road side Farm Stand is open Tuesdays, a little in from the corner of Friendship Ave & Gross St in Bloomfield (you’ll see the pop tent) from 3:30- 6:30ishpm. Sales from the farm stand support our free programming such as the County Fair.
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