Green, Lima and Baked) Bean Festivals in 2024: Where, When and More to Find an Green, Lima and Baked) Bean Festival Near You!

Looking for a Green, Lima and Baked) Bean festival in April 2024? There is no other listing as complete and current as this list, just updated! Green, Lima and Baked) Bean festivals are held through the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia and much of the world. All the Green, Lima and Baked) Bean festivals we can find are listed on this page! If you love apples, look for a festival near you below! And I'm looking for more Green, Lima and Baked) Bean 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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Green, Lima and Baked) Bean Festivals in 2024: Where, When and More to Find an Green, Lima and Baked) Bean Festival Near You!

You may find these pages useful:

For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!

Easy illustrated directions to make

• Canning fresh shelled beans
• How to freeze green beans (and other beans) from your garden, farm, or store.
• How to can green beans, yellow beans, snap beans, broad beans, etc. - P
• Pickled Three-Bean Salad - W
• Canned dried beans and peas (from kidney beans, peas, lima beans, broadbeans, chickpeas, pole beans, etc.) - P
• Homemade Canned Baked  Beans With Tomato or Molasses Sauce - P
• Homemade Canned Baked  Beans With Back, Pork or Ham and Tomato or Molasses Sauce - P
• Pickled green beans - W, P
• Pickled Dill beans - W, P
• Mustard beans (pickled mustard beans)
• How to Freeze Lima Beans, Broad beans, Butter Beans and/or Pinto Beans

For an excellent article about apple cider from Mother Earth News, click here.

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United States

Alabama

• Alabama Butterbean Festival - October 5th - 6th 2018 Friday 6 PM to 10 PM, Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM
  Pinson, Alabama 35126. Phone: (877) 691-6088. One of the largest festivals in the Southeast, the Alabama Butterbean Festival rounds up country cooks, families, and die-hard fans of butterbeans for a fun-filled weekend including 12-hours of live music, carnival rides, food, petting zoos, pony rides, and more. The free festival also features the Guinness world record holding butterbean pot. The pot earned the record in 2010 for the largest pot of baked beans at over 1,010 gallons. The festival's official mascot, Bucky Butterbean, will also be at the festival posing for pictures and greeting attendees. The small-town charm of Pinson's Main Street will be packed with more than 150 arts and crafts vendors and various traditional and non-traditional fair food vendors. The Alabama Butterbean Festival is the 2nd largest festival in the state of Alabama according to the Alabama State Tourism Board. Click here for a link to our Facebook page.

Arkansas

• Ozark Bean Festival and Outhouse Races - Friday, late October from 10 am to 5 pm
  Downtown Mountain View and Ozark Folk Center, 1032 Park Avenue, Mountain View, AR 72560. Phone: 870-269-3851. Email: parks.info@arkansas.gov. The Annual Bean Festival features artisan crafts, live music, and lots of great food and entertainment in downtown Mountain View and at the Ozark Folk Center (1.2 miles north of the square). Events on Saturday at the court square in Mountain View include the pinto bean and cornbread cook-off, followed by the most unique spectator sport in the Ozarks: the Arkansas Championship Outhouse Races. 
  2022 Adult - Admission to Artisan Craft Village: $12.00
  All-day park pass to music shows & crafts: $19.50
  Adult - Admission to music show in Ozark Highlands Theater: $12.00
  The 38th Annual Bean Festival features artisan crafts, live music, and lots of great food and entertainment in downtown Mountain View and at the Ozark Folk Center (1.2 miles north of the square). Events on Saturday at the court square in Mountain View include the pinto bean and cornbread cook-off, followed by the most unique spectator sport in the Ozarks: the Arkansas Championship Outhouse Races.
  The Artisan Craft Village will be open from 10 am to 5 pm on Friday and Saturday during Bean Fest. Activities throughout this weekend include hands-on programs featuring heritage crafts such as corn shuck doll making, letterpress printing, weaving, and more.

California

• Dry Bean Festival - August
  Tracy, CA.

Connecticut

Delaware

Georgia

• Blairsville Green Bean Festival - July from 10 Am TO 5 Pm - UPDATE for 2022 - It appears to have been canceled, at least for this year
  1 Town Square, Blairsville, GA 30512. Phone: 706-745-5493. Downtown Blairsville Annual Georgia Green Bean Festival. Learn everything there is to know about Green Beans, a staple in the North Georgia Mountains. Watch the Green Bean Pizza Eating Contest and see displays and demonstrations at the Mountain Life Museum just off town square. Food & Crafts Vendors, demonstrators, Quilt Show & Quilting Circle, Entertainment, Tractor Show, & Farmer's Market.
  

Illinois

Indiana

• Rising Sun Navy Bean Festival - Friday and Saturday in early October, Friday-3:30 pm to 10 pm and Saturday-Noon to 11pm
  Front and Main Street, Rising Sun, IN. Phone: (812) 438-3340. Email: risingsunmainstreet@gmail.com. The Navy Bean Hometown Festival has FREE RIDES; fabulous bean soup; amazing bands; vendors galore; Mac's Seaplane Splash-In; what's not to love?! All of this in beautiful downtown Rising Sun nestled along the Ohio River. While you're here, be sure to visit our quaint shops and eateries. Main, Poplar, and Front streets will be closed to traffic, but there is plenty of free parking in city lots and side streets.

Kentucky

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

• Michigan Bean Festival - Early September, Friday to Monday
  1933 Liberty ST Fairgrove, MI 48733. Email: mibeanfestival@gmail.com. There's very little descriptive information about the festival itself on their website, most promotional, asking for donations. Check their schedule of events page, that's the closest they've got to a description of the events.

Minnesota

Missouri

Nebraska

New Hampshire

New Jersey

• West Cape May Lima Bean Festival - Saturday, October (Raindate: the next day)
  West Cape May, NJ. The lowly legume takes center stage beginning at 9 Am and delights locals and visitors alike with her vast array of recipes, crafts, and products available. Call Lauren Vitelli at 609-884-1005. Ext 3 for more information.

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Vermont

Virginia

Washington (state)

West Virginia

Wisconsin

• Bean and Bacon Days - 5 days long over the July 4th weekend
  Augusta, WI. Phone: 715-286-5013. A Full Weekend of Events. Traditional days are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The Grand Parade Sunday, July 4th at1:30 pm

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Canada

British Columbia

Manitoba

Nova Scotia

Ontario

• Zurich Bean Festival - The 4th Saturday in August
  Zurich, ON N0M 2T0. Phone: 519-236-2326. Email: info@beanfest.ca. The 4th Saturday in August! Pork & Bean Dinners, Midway, BINGO, Car Show, Street Vendors, FREE Entertainment, Licensed Area, Fri & Sat live bands! In the little heritage village of Zurich! Car show, food, vendors and live entertainment! Zurich Bean Festival Facebook page. 

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Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)

Australia

Germany

Mexico