Find out where to celebrate everything from peaches to potatoes!
As the summer cools off, there are few activities more enjoyable than perusing a farmers market.
Freshly-picked apples and even digging up your own potatoes are all yours for the taking here in Colorado.
Mark your calendars for all of these produce-filled festivals sprouting late this summer and early fall — and get ready to road trip!
Telluride Mushroom Festival
Where: Telluride
When: August 14-18, Get all the details here.
The Lowdown: There are more uses for mushrooms than just cooking, and this festival will educate you about all of them. These versatile superfoods can be used in your garden, your kitchen and even your medicine cabinet. This year’s theme is “Healing the Mind, Healing the Planet,” and there is a full lineup of talks you can listen to regarding topics like health and wellness, sustainability and taxonomy. You can learn how to identify different types of mushrooms as well, so be prepared to surprise your friends on your next hike. And yes — you’ll learn about magic mushrooms, too.
Palisade Peach Festival
Where: Palisade
When: August 15-18, Get all the details here.
The Lowdown: This festival will make your weekend just peachy. The schedule is packed with everything from a four-course meal in a beautiful field, to a peach eating contest and even a crowning of a peach in the Biggest Peach Contest. All of the peach-inspired cuisines will keep you energized to dance the day away to all the live music at the fest. There’s even a lake where you can paddleboard or kayak — and then you’ll be hungry enough to eat plenty of desserts.
Watermelon Day
Where: Rocky Ford
When: Saturday, August 17, Get all the details here.
The Lowdown: Watermelon Day is part of the Arkansas Valley Fair, which they claim is Colorado’s “oldest continuous Fair” and had been a tradition since 1878. This means it’s time to brush up on some old-fashioned skills so you can compete in the watermelon seed-spitting and watermelon carving contests. There’s also the infamous watermelon pile, which proves extremely hard to miss. The festival is a welcomed blast to the past with its needlework display, horseshoe pitching and bingo all day long. Not intense enough for you? Well, the day ends with a demolition derby, so adrenaline-junkies are sure to get their fill of fun, too.
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