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Join us for the second Pittsburgh County Fair!
-an urban agricultural celebration of handmade, homegrown, fermented and more from the city of Pittsburgh! This event is being put on in partnership with Ferment Pittsburgh, Grow Pittsburgh, National Young Farmers Coalition, and the City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, pittsburgh, pgh.
Sunday September 15th 2024
11am- 6pm
Allegheny Commons Park West
(where the pond is, not where the Farmers Market is.)
Quick List of Fair Forms!
Vendor/ Presenter/ Project/ Entertainment Application (App is now closed.)
Best Tomato in Pittsburgh 2024 Contest Info
Plant “Variety Show” Info
County Fair Apple Pie Bake-Off Contest Registration
Farmer Kickball Sign-up
Spooncarving Circle Sign-up
Garden of Decay
Event Sponsorship
EVENT DAY PARKING: The PPG Public Parking Lot at 900 Ridge Ave (few blocks from event) will be open for the event. Federal North Garage at 1307 Federal Street will also be accomidating the event.
Please avoid parking in the Mexican War Street neighborhoods!
FREE Make-Your Own Activities and demonstrations for people of all ages: Grape Stomping, Wild Clay Making, Make-Your-Own Sesame Oil, Worm Composting, Sorghum Pressing w/ Woolgather, Bouquet Building w/ Sol Patch, Wild Pigments with Alchemical Pigments, Natural Papermaking with The Paper Lady, Broom Making with Husk Brooms, Reuse Crafting with Center for Creative Reuse, Mushrooms with Steel City Spore, Torch-Fire Enameled Jewlery with King Reld, Seed-Saving Station with Phipps Conservatory, Spooncarving with the community, Needle Felting with Edan, Foraged Homebrewing with TRASH, a Bacteria Scavenger Hunt (with prizes), Indigo Dying complimentary shoelaces or the event t-shirt: many from locally farmed plants! And much more!
Attendees are invited to bring soil samples from their home gardens to ACCD’s Soil Lead Screening Pop-up to be analyzed for lead via XRF on-site, receive results same day, and connect with staff to help you understand and act on your results. Find instructions for how to collect and label your soil samples here: Urban Soils Instructions (accdpa.org)
Best Tomato in Pittsburgh Contest: See how your tomato stacks up against the rest of Pittsburgh! Open to any tomato grown within the City Limits. Free to participate. Find more information here. Prizes include: a gift card for Fedco Seeds: for top 3! And a snazzy trophy. Brought to you by BOLD: Western Pa Blind Outdoor Leisure and Development.
Apple Pie Bake-Off: Brought to you by Bitter Ends. Complete with celebrity judges, bakers get your ovens ready! Everyone else, get ready to taste.
Plant “Variety Show” Info: Bring different fruits or plant “parts” from your garden to show off the wide collection of different food-plants being grown here in the City. More info here.
Farmers Market & Artisan Market: Shop amongst local makers of local things: of the edible, inedible, and creative type. Our Fair uniquely holds firm to standards of local and sustainable in recognition of the harder work, thinner margins, and passion it takes to do something with the highest integrity. No banks, no window sales, no bananas, no non-local entities.
Entertaiment: Cheer on your favorite local farmers in our Farmer Kickball game from 12pm-2, brought to you by National Young Farmers Coalition. Penna Flower Company will be on hand constructing a sculpture from fresh flowers and farm waste live throughout the day. Also All-ages farmer games, a petting zoo, and general festival attendees are encouraged to dress as their favorite food!
Live music: Coming soon!
Local Food & Drink: Enjoy locally delicious food from The Pickled Chef, JL Kennedy Meats & Bethany Zozula. Finish it off with homemade ice cream from Northside favorite Happy Day Dessert Factory & beer from Allegheny City Brewing.
Fermentation Culture Swap: Have extra cultures? Bring some to share!
Much more to come. Check back here or Facebook or Instagram or newsletter to stay up to date!
County Fair in the news: WESA, Post, Talk Pittsburgh
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. Now Open!
For our monthly fermentation newsletter featuring seasonal recipes, techniques, history, gardening tips, and science, stories as well as information on Pgh area fermentation events:
contact, for questions/ inquiries/ help/ whatever:
whatsthatsmell@fermentpittsburgh.com
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