LEWIS — The Adirondack Harvest Festival will return to its one-day, in-person format at the Essex County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Sept. 24.

This will be the first time the event has fully returned to the Essex County Fairgrounds for one large in-person event since 2019. The event will follow the same format as past festivals, with a large farmers’ market, local food trucks, beer tent, demonstrations and talks, kids’ activities, farm animals and more. Because of the festival’s outdoor format and the increased availability of masks and COVID testing, organizers are confident that they will be able to offer a safe event this year.

“We are so excited to host the Adirondack Harvest Festival in its traditional format again this year,” said Laurie Davis, of Adirondack Harvest. “The festival is truly a celebration of the harvest season, and it is such a great way for people to come together to show our collective appreciation of all that our agricultural community does as stewards of the Adirondacks.”

The Adirondack Harvest Festival was created in 2016 by local community members who wanted to celebrate and showcase local food and farms in the Champlain Valley. The event has grown each year since, with over 3,000 visitors traveling from near and far to attend in 2019. As with everything, the Adirondack Harvest Festival has taken a different shape for the past two years during the coronavirus pandemic, with an online and self-guided event in 2020, and an “Open Farm Week” featuring a whole week of many smaller events across the Adirondacks in 2021. Because of the popularity of Open Farm Week, Adirondack Harvest plans to host both separate events this year. A more region-specific Open Farm Weekend is tentatively planned for Sept. 2-5. More information on that event will come.

For more updates from Adirondack Harvest, including information on attending the 2022 festival, visit Adirondackharvest.com/festival.