Fall Peanut Festivals
It’s almost the season for fall peanut festivals. Celebrations of America’s favorite legume abound in September and October during harvest season. If you love your dry roasted peanuts and chunky peanut butter you’ll want to partake in one of the many festivals honoring this crop once grown by President Jimmy Carter.
Visiting a peanut farm may actually be one of the highlights you can look forward to. The process is quite remarkable and impressive with its sheer quantity. Parades are usually on hand as are numerous culinary booths featuring the humble peanut in all kinds of dishes. Today it’s hard to believe that Americans needed a lot of persuading to eat peanuts which they believed were best left as hog feed up until George Washington Carver began to sing the peanut’s praises just over 100 years ago. Where would we be now without Reese’s?
National Peanut Festival - Dothan, AL - Nov 1 to Nov 10, 2024
The nation’s largest peanut festival celebrates the harvest. One-quarter of the U.S. peanut crop is harvested within 75 miles of Dothan.
Whitesboro Peanut Festival - Whitesboro, TX - Oct 19 to Oct 19, 2024
Free admission to this family friendly carnival with parade, car show and live entertainment.
GA Peanut Festival - Sylvester, GA - Oct 18 to Oct 19, 2024
Kicks off with Farm Family Night, with entertainment, games, activities, craft and food vendors, before a 5k and 1 mile run, parade, vendors, and more. This festival is the world record holder for making the World’s Largest Peanut Butter Sandwich, which was 14 feet long, 14 feet wide, and weighed a whopping 2650 lb, made in 1987!
Suffolk Peanut Festival - Suffolk, VA - Oct 10 to Oct 13, 2024
A family friendly event recognizing the city’s agriculture heritage and devotion to peanuts. Concerts, amusement rides, contests and competitions, a demolition derby, a truck and tractor pull, motorcycle rally, fireworks. More than 100,000 attend over the course of the 4 day event.
Floresville Peanut Festival - Floresville, TX - Oct 8 to Oct 12, 2024
Carnival, games, parade, pageant, live entertainment and more during the second full weekend in October.
Mississippi Peanut Festival - Collins, MS - Oct 5 to Oct 6, 2024
Mitchell Farms host this annual event. Includes over 75 vendors of yard art, jewelry, collectibles, antiques, arts, crafts, and a wide variety of food, plus pumpkin patch and a tour of a working farm with turn of the century antiques. There is also a fundraiser 5K raising funds for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Aubrey Peanut Festival, Texas - Aubrey, TX - Oct 5 to Oct 5, 2024
Although peanut harvesting in the Aubrey area is in the past, area citizens have gathered in the town of Aubrey for an annual salute to the peanut as a part of their heritage since 1986. Visitors can enjoy the free day-long festival. Attractions include: • The parade which begins the day at 10:00 am, with citizens of the area riding past the spectators who line Main Street. The parade is led by the award winning high school marching band and is followed by representatives of all organizations and businesses in the area. • Live musical entertainment by local bands can be enjoyed into the evening. • There will be many games and activities for all ages. • There will be various food booths including Barbecue, Cajun, Haitian Cuisine and much more! • Browse countless booths with arts and crafts, specialty items, information and other merchandise items available. Booth rentals for the festival are available. Booth spaces are assigned on a first come basis and range in price from $50 – $200. The deadline for booth applications is September 2, 2022. Forms are posted on the Aubrey Peanut Festival Facebook page or on the website at https://www.aubreytx.gov/293/Annual-Peanut-Festival. Please contact our event coordinators at (940) 440-9343 or email us at [email protected]
Plains Peanut Festival - Plains, GA - Sep 28 to Sep 28, 2024
Celebrates Sumter County’s peanut production with a parade, fun run, exhibits and other activities.
Dublin Peanut Festival - Dublin, NC - Sep 21 to Sep 21, 2024
Celebrate the harvest in the peanut capital of North Carolina. Peanut bakeoff contest, parade, pageant, car show, pedal tractor pull and more.
Grapeland Peanut Festival - Grapeland, TX - Oct 15 to Oct 15, 2022
Features a carnival, parade, concert at City Park, and the homecoming game at Sandie Stadium.