2024 Indiana Sweet Corn Festivals: Where, When and More to Find a Sweet Corn Festival Near You!

Looking for a Sweet Corn festival in April 2024? There is no other listing as complete and current as this list, just updated! Sweet Corn festivals are held through the United States, Canada, Britain, and Australia and much of the world. All the Sweet Corn festivals we can find are listed on this page! If you love Corn, look for a festival near you below! And I'm looking for more Sweet Corn 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.

Click here for the form to add a festival and have detailed information; or click here if you have general information and are not connected with the event!

2024 Sweet Corn Festivals

Indiana

Corn typically ripens from July to late August in Indiana. July and August dominate throughout most of the U.S.as the months for Corn production (and festivals) .

There are two general types of Corn festivals 1) community festivals, usually organized by a church, school, local Chamber of commerce or a town and 2). Corn festival held at and by a farm. They are different in what they offer, and community festivals tend to be less expensive so they are grouped separately. (of course not all states and areas have both.)
Following the festival listings are links to our easy to follow directions about making freezing corn, canning corn much more.

Community Corn Festivals

• Clay County, Indiana Popcorn Festival -  PERMANAENTLY CANCELED
  Brazil, Indiana 47834. Birthplace of the best-known name associated with popcorn, Orville Redenbacher. "This festival celebrates the #1 snacking product in the nation POPCORN! Orville Redenbacher established his first popcorn plant in Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1979 the City decided to thank Orville by celebrating popcorn with an annual festival."  ConAgra Corn Maze, Farmer Ron's Amazing Fieldtrip, Popcorn Eating Contest, Lion's Club Bed Race, Orville Look-Alike Contest, a band and Luehr's Ideal Rides carnival. Click here to see TV Commercial. 
• Harrison County Popcorn Festival - July 5th-6th 2024
  Downtown Corydon, 310 N. Elm St., Corydon, IN. Celebrate one of Harrison County’s biggest agricultural products with a parade, children’s activities, games, a beer garden, and more! Enjoy food, entertainment, fireworks, and more. After 20 years, the Popcorn Festival is back! This two day event will celebrate one of Harrison County’s biggest agricultural products and the official state snack: popcorn!
• Schererville Corn Roast - Saturday, July 26, 2024 from 12 pm to 7 pm (if it's really hot, they may change the time later, like 4 pm to 11 pm)
  Peter G Redar Memorial Park, 217 Gregory Street, Schererville, IN 46375.  Schererville Chamber of Commerce Events. Food Trucks, Beer Garden, Crafters & Vendors, KIDS KORNER- $ per wristband-CASH ONLY. Giant Bubbles & Giant Games- 12pm-7pm – FREE
  Bounce Houses (Separate from Kids Korner)
  Country Costume Contest Raffle- FREE
  Petting Zoo- FREE
  Corn Roast-
  LIVE BAND-
  Pony & a Pumpkin
• Valparaiso Popcorn Festival - September (always the Saturday after Labor Day), 7 am to 6:30 pm
  downtown Valparaiso, IN. Family-fun activities for all ages. Over 200 arts & crafts booths, 30 food booths, kids games, the five-mile Popcorn Panic, and the nation s First Popcorn Parade are only the beginning of the excitement of this incredible festival. The Valparaiso Popcorn Festival is located in beautiful downtown Valparaiso, kicking off with the Popcorn Panic at 7 am. and wrapping up at 6:30 pm Plenty of off-site parking is available with a shuttle bringing you downtown.
• Van Buren Annual Popcorn Festival - held each August, typically during the 1st or 2nd full Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the August
  Van Buren, IN. There is no admissions fee. ALL entertainment is located at the main stage and is FREE! Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy the 51st Van Buren Popcorn Festival!

Farm Corn Festivals

In addition to community and church festivals, some private farms have their own Corn festivals.  See each farm for this year's dates (they often do not announce them until the end of June). T Also, scroll down to see the links to recipes, freezing, canning and jam making directions at the bottom of the page.

• Fulton Farms Sweet Corn Festival - typically a weekend in late August
  2393 State Route 202, Troy, OH. Phone: 937-339-8246. Email: beverly@fultonfarms.com. Directions: See this page for a map and directions. The sweet corn festival is an annual event held at Fulton Farms to celebrate our sweet corn harvest. Fun, food, games and live music all weekend. With local vendors selling food and hand made crafts. Don't forget to try some roasted sweet corn!
  Open: May-August, Monday-Thursday 9 am to 7 pm and Friday-Sunday 9 am to 5 pm; September- December, Monday-Thursday 10 am to 6 pm and Friday-Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. See this page for the Daily Crop Report. Ice cream, popcorn, edible soybeans, fresh fruit slushy, horse-drawn wagon rides through plantation, Troy Strawberry Festival first weekend of June, family tour at Fulton Farms weekends in October ($5.00 per person, includes hayride to pumpkin field, mazes, animals and a free pumpkin). The farm includes 1,900 acres of sweet corn, beans, strawberries, tomatoes and pumpkins, a gift shop and cafe. Through October, hop on hayrides to pick your own pumpkins during the weekends, or call to schedule a tour of the farm on weekdays. Christmas Trees: canaan fir, fraser fir, white pine, services: cut-your-own, shaking. Produce grown on the farm includes Asparagus, Beets, Sweet Globe Onions, Pickling Cakes, Farm Fresh Eggs, Apples, Lemons, Limes, Rhubarb, Lettuce, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Strawberries, Peaches, Corn, Green Beans, Peas, Onions, Zucchini, Summer Squash, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers, Broccoli, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Pumpkins, Fall Squash, Raspberries, Local Raw Honey.
  Comments from a visitor on June 01, 2012: "Fulton Farms' u-pick strawberries were great this year and the u-pick peas are coming in nicely. "

Related Corn Information:

• Harvesting, storing and cooking corn.

Freezing Corn

You can easily freeze the sweet corn and have that great taste in the dead of winter! 

• Freezing whole ears of corn on the cob
• Freezing corn, cut off the cob

Canning Corn

This too, is easy... but it DOES require a Pressure Canner.  You cannot safely do this with a water bath canner.  Food poisoning is no joke!

• Here is how to can corn!
•  how to make canned creamed corn.
• Southern Chow-Chow (also called Piccalilli)
• Pickled corn relish
• How to make sweet corn ice cream

 

For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!