Virginia Tomato Festivals in 2024: Where, When and More to Find a Tomato Festival Near You!
Looking for a Tomato festival in April 2024? There is no other listing as
complete and current as this list, just updated! Tomato festivals are held through the United States,
Canada, Britain, and
Australia and much of the world. All the Tomato
festivals we can find are listed on this page!
If you love tomatoes, look for a festival near you below! And I'm
looking for more Tomato 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!
Virginia 2024Tomato Festivals Festivals - Where, When and More Details!
Virginia
Tomatoes are a warm and hot weather crop, and typically are
locally harvested from, July to October. There are two general types of
Tomato festivals 1) community festivals, usually organized by a church, school, local Chamber of commerce or a town and 2).
Tomato festival held at and by a farm
They are different in what they offer, so they are grouped separately.
(of course not all states and areas have both. And following the
festival listings are links to our easy to follow directions about
making Tomato jam, freezing Tomatoes, Tomato pies and
much more.
Community Tomato Festivals
- Annual EastMont Tomato Festival - August - see their website
for this year's dates.
Meadowbrook Center, Shawsville, Va. Phone: 540-268-2879. Email:
hemphills4@yahoo.com. There will be contests for
best-tasting, biggest and funniest-looking tomatoes, along with best
BBQ sauce, pasta sauce, ketchup, salsa, tomato recipe, fried green
tomato, and tomato artwork, also a Tomato Queen, tomato juggling, a
tomato catapult, The Tomato Opera, and some musical tomato jams.
Join us at the Meadowbrook Center in Shawsville 10 AM to 3 PM for local
musicians, a magician, great food and games! Choose from our famous
fried green tomatoes, BLTs, pizzas, tomato sandwiches, tomato
biscuits and more. Kids love the ever popular TomatOlympics, a
series of tomato-themed challenges along our crazy obstacle course.
Just for the fun of it, kids get a chance to throw squishy tomatoes
at the Human Tomato Target.. Bring your entry for the tomato art
contests and our tomato recipe contests. You can even bring your own
tomatoes for our Biggest, Ugliest and Best-Tasting Tomato contests.
Compete in the Tomato Pageant in your tomato-themed outfit, or find
out if you're the next Tomato-Eating champion. Admission is free.
Bring your friends!
- Hannover Tomato Festival - July, 9 am to 4 pm
Pole Green Park, 8996 Pole Green Park Lane, Mechanicsville, VA
23116. Email:
hanovertomatofestival@hanovercounty.gov.
See the list of
food vendors.
From tomatoes to
talented musicians, tomato pies to fried green tomatoes, artisans to
agricultural vendors, bow-wow beach to the materFUN zone, this event is
uniquely Hanover! Non aggressive dogs are allowed at the Festival and must be on a leash at all
times.
The tomatoes being sold at the Hanover Tomato Festival are supplied by
Dodd's Acres Farm, located on Market Road in the Black Creek area of Hanover
County. The Dodd's have worked their Hanover County 300-acre farm since the mid
1970's.42,000 people usually attend this Festival. Yes there is handicapped parking. Please be sure to have your parking pass
displayed prior to arriving at Pole Green Park. There will be plenty of
activities for children including face painting, arts & crafts, games,
mechanical rides, petting zoo, Best Dressed Hanover Tomato Contest, and much
more.
- Thomas Jefferson's Tomatoe Faire - August - see their website for this year's dates.
Lynchburg, VA. Phone: 434/384-8317. Displays of horticulture,
awarding of ribbons, tomato sandwiches. No admission fee. The Festival will be held rain or shine.
Farm Tomato Festivals
In addition to community and church festivals, some private farms have their own
tomato festivals in June.
See each farm for this year's dates (they often do not announce them
until the end of May). They usually have PYO Tomatoes then, too.
Also, scroll down to see the links to recipes, freezing, canning and jam making
directions at the bottom of the page.
- We will be adding these as we find them; Please write me,
if you know of any to add!
Related Tomato Information: Freezing, making Jam, Canning, Pies, Recipes and More
Also, see our pages on easy illustrated Tomato
directions:
Canning Tomatoes in Pressure canners
Freezing Tomatoes
For other fruit and vegetable festivals, see this page!