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 on Saturday, September 19 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 on sale soon!
2026 Festival Schedule (Tentative)
DINE WITH US
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.
Live Pie Auction –10:00 AM
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.
ENJOY LIVE MUSIC 8 AM – 3:30 PM
Put on your dancing shoes or bring a chair to enjoy a full lineup of live music. 2026 music lineup coming soon.
ALL DAY ACTIVITIES 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Kids Zone
Activities from Macaroni Kids, Washington County 4-H, the University of Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, free face painting, and more!
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.
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.
Interested in being a 2026 Harvest Festival Sponsor?
Email festival@historiccanehillar.org
R & R Truck & Trailer
Spears and Son Tree Service
Spink’s Ten Acre Market