Dig In! Fruit Fest 2025

Fri Aug 22 2025 at 04:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-04:00

Birdfoot | Burnsville

Dig In! Yancey Community Garden
Publisher/HostDig In! Yancey Community Garden
Dig In! Fruit Fest 2025
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Get ready for a juicy good time at the 3rd Annual Fruit Fest!
🎉 Friday, August 22 | 4–7 PM
📍 Birdfoot & Hearth Glass
Come celebrate all things fruity at this vibrant summer bash! We’ve got a fruit pie bake-off and tasting, live music, local vendors, games, raffles, and free glass blowing demos—all packed into one unforgettable afternoon.
🥧 Think you bake the best pie in town? There’s still time to prove it!
Register your pie (youth & adult categories) by Thursday, August 21—it’s free to enter! Contest rules and registration are at www.diginyancey.org/fruit-fest-2025.

🍰 Pie tastings start at 5 PM with a suggested donation to support Dig In.
🎶 Live tunes will be pumping from 5–7 PM on the Hearth Glass stage
🎨 Local glass artists will wow you with live demos of blowing handmade fruit bowls
🍓 Feeling playful? Try your hand at watermelon seed spitting, apple bobbing, or visit the face painting station and activity tables by Toe River Arts Council and Cooperative Extension for some creative fun.
🧺 Don’t miss your chance to win big with raffle baskets full of local goodies, raising funds to support Dig In
🫐 Vendors like Soil Shine Farm & Ferments, Healthy Planet Homestead, Thrive Appalachia, and others will be serving up the freshest fruit-forward goods around.
🌮 Come hungry! Hot Mess food truck and Birdfoot will be donating a portion of the day’s sales to support Dig In’s mission to grow and share free, local food with our community.
Bring your friends, bring your appetite, and bring your fruity spirit to celebrate summer and support Dig In!
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Birdfoot, 10 Orchard Drive,Burnsville, North Carolina, United States

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