Join us for this community tradition! The Harvest Festival offers visitors an experience combining history, Ozark culture, and a natural setting with modern amenities and entertainment. Visitors to the 2026 Festival can enjoy a country breakfast, live pie auction, food truck provisions, live music, an Arts and Eats market, sorghum pressing demonstrations, craft demonstrations, tours of historic buildings and a quilt show.
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR
The Festival is on rain or shine!
Enjoy the Ozark Country Breakfast 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
$8 – Adults – (Adult festival & breakfast ticket bundle only $12!)
$5 – Kids (12 & under)
Food Trucks (prices vary by truck) 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
2026 Food Trucks to come.
Bring your sweet tooth and your pocketbook to ensure you can take home a pie from a community member or local business. This LIVE pie auction is sure to entertain as well as satisfy.
Put on your dancing shoes or bring a chair to enjoy a full lineup of live music, including:
2026 Band Lineup to come.
Kids Zone
Activities from Macaroni Kids, Washington County 4-H, the University of Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, free face painting, and more!
Print Like Maud
Celebrate the centennial of Cane Hill College alumna and Winslow American publisher Maud Duncan being elected the first female mayor in the state by trying your hand at printing using old-fashioned techniques.
Arts and Eats Market
Shop for goods and gifts from local artisans and crafters
Sorghum Pressing Demonstration
See the process of pressing sorghum cane with an antique press using local draft horses to transform the cane juice into sorghum molasses!
Craft Demonstrations
Including lace tatting, textile spinning & weaving, blacksmithing, beekeeping, antique tractors, and more
Community Creative Center’s Wheel Mobile
Have a “wheel of a time” as you try your hand throwing pottery.
Free 30-minute mini-workshops are available to ages 10 and up.
Quilt Show & Drawing
Featuring antique and contemporary quilts from the region
Historic Building Visits
Take the unique opportunity to peek inside the 1886 Cane Hill College and 1891 Cane Hill Presbyterian Church, and learn about the Kirby-Colburn House, winner of a 2024 Arkansas Preservation Award for Excellence in Preservation through Restoration.
Arkansas Portraits: Black and White Images from the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938 at the Historic Cane Hill Gallery.
Buddy Up with the Bur Oak
Did you know that the state Co-Champion Bur Oak tree grows on HCH’s campus? In addition to its impressive size, this tree is a “witness tree” to the Trail of Tears.
festival@historiccanehillar.org
Calling all food trucks, makers, artists, and craftspeople–vendor applications for the 2026 Cane Hill Harvest Festival are now open!
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The Cane Hill Harvest Festival wouldn’t happen without our amazing volunteers! From working the info table to making sorghum molasses, there are opportunities for everyone.
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The Cane Hill Harvest Festival is a time-honored tradition and fundraiser supporting the work and educational programs of Historic Cane Hill. Historic Cane Hill is dedicated to the preservation of the many historically significant structures of Cane Hill and western Washington County, as well as the trails, creeks, and bounty of nature found on our properties.
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