Attending Any Rhubarb-Festivals
This Year In Your Area?

Are there any rhubarb-festivals going on in your corner of the world?

Just as there are strawberry, apple, blueberry, and garlic festivals, there are special times set aside throughout the year to appreciate and celebrate the Pie Plant.

These festivals promise to provide many fun-filled hours of enjoyment through rhubarb related events and activities galore. Afterall, it's all about the rhubarb.

It certainly has to be quite an education for those who have never attended.

So, take a look at the listings and see if there is a rhubarb-fair near you.

Read all about National-Pie-Day January

February 26 & 27 2010
Wakefield Rhubarb Festival
Wakefield England

Events include tours of the infamous forcing sheds,and Heritage walks. Sample meals made from rhubarb at the local restaurants.

Read about the Wakefield Forcing Sheds







Food Trend: More Than Rhubarb Pie

"Rhubarb is going to start showing up in both sweet and savory dishes this year as chefs adapt this versatile ingredient for a number of dishes. Rhubarb can be used in stir fries, pot pies and other savory dishes to give the recipe a hint of sweetness - and a distinctive flavor."

Quote from Associated Content Lifestyle December 2008 regarding 2009 Food Trends -, and certainly good news for rhubarb-festivals across the country.

TOP regional chefs and food experts will be some of the star guests at this year's Wakefield Festival of Food, Drink and Rhubarb.

For the Month of May 2010

May 15, 2010
Heritage Flower Farm Waterford Wisconsin
33725 Highway L.

Rhubarb Revelry - All day - Try some rhubarb treats, join in the rhubarb stalk toss, watch a rhubarb leaf birdbath demo and more.

Celebrate spring with all things rhubarb on Saturday, May 16 when the Historic Franklin Settlement in the Village of Franklin holds its annual Pie Plant (Rhubarb) Bake-Off Festival.

The location for the event is Franklin Haus Hall, an original building at the Sheboygan River, N8133 Franklin Road, in the Town of Herman.

Proceeds will benefit Wisconsin's Ethnic Settlement Trail Inc. and Eastern Wisconsin Sustainable Farmers Network.

May 21 & 22
Kitchen Kettle Village Rhubarb Festival
Intercourse, Pennsylvania USA

Kitchen Kettle Village Rhubarb Festival

The kitchen kettle is having their usual baking contest, and looking for the best recipe for rhubarb whoopie pies. Find out here how to make Whoopie Pies . It looks fairly easy and fun too.


June 3, 2010
A Rhubarb Festival is planned for June 3 at the
Historical Acadian Village of Nova Scotia in Lower West Pubnico
Rhubarb desserts will be served and local musicians will
entertain.

June 5, 2010

Rhubarb Day
W.H. Over Museum, Ratingen St., Vermillion South Dakota

Join in the Recipe Contest, Crafts and Rhubarb Olympics

June 5th, 2010
High Desert Rhubarb Festival
La Pine, Oregon

Annual Rhubarb Festival at L & S Gardens. The Dutch oven cooking club will be preparing numerous dishes in their Dutch ovens all featuring rhubarb. Everything from glazed pork roast, jams, jellies, cookies, bread and much more.

June 4th & 5th 2010 Aledo Rhubarb Festival Illinois USA

The Aledo Rhubarb-Festivals began in 1990, and draws thousands of people.

Aledo Rhubarb Festival

Montezuma Winery and Hidden Marsh Distillery is setting us back in time at their Olde-Thyme Rhubarb Festival June 5, 2010.

Join them as they celebrate the rhubarb harvest season with rhubarb specialties, while sampling some of the most unique fruit, grape and honey wines and spirits in the Finger Lakes. Admission is free. This rhubarb-festival should be fun!

Montezuma Winery
2981 Auburn Road
Seneca Falls, NY 13148

June 5, 2010
Whoop-Up-Days and Rhubarb-Festivals
Conrad Montana USA
Prizes for the biggest rhubarb leaf and best pie.

June 5 2010
Lanesboro Rhubarb Festival
Sylvan Park Lanesboro Minnesota USA
Annual Rhubarb-Festivals Event

Lanesboro Rhubarb Festival

June 7, 2010
Rhubarb Fest at Rockton Township Historical Society Museum
529 Green Street
Rockton, IL

Enjoy the best of various homemade rhubarb items.

June 9th
National Strawberry-Rhubarb Day International Celebrate this great duo by attending and/or participating in any one of the great Rhubarb-Festivals going on locally.

Ravenous for Rhubarb-Festival June 11th - 13 and ends with
3rd Annual Flaunt and Flash Car Show

Sunday June 13/10
MASTODON RIDGE, STEWIACKE, Nova Scotia 10:00am to 3:00pm

There are a number of rhubarb events such as rhubarb tasting during the quilt show, rhubarb deserts at the church supper, rhubarb beverage specials at the local pub, even a special sundae at the local DQ! So it is only natural that we end our event with a car show, because as with rhubarb and with cars, it really is about the stock!

June 11, 12, & 13th 2010

The Rosy Rhubarb-Festival
Shedden, Ontario Canada

An Annual Rhubarb-Festivals Event

Known as the rhubarb capital of Ontario, the Rosy Rhubarb Festival provides 3 full days of fun and great entertainment.

Rosy Rhubarb Festival Shedden

June 12, 2010
Grand Forks North Dakota Rhubarb Festival

Rhubarb Festival Grand Forks

Not planned for 2010, however planned for 2011 again

Rhubarb Rally
Bethel Lutheran Church
298 Lutheran Drive
Sherwood Park, Alberta

"Most of us in the Eastside GANG (Grandmothers of Alberta
for a New Generation) feel that the only thing that
separates us from those elderly women in Africa is simply
an accident of birth. If we had been born in Africa
rather than Canada some 65 (plus) years ago, the life
story of the African grandmothers would be our own. We
also believe that once our community knows about the pain
and hardship caused by the AIDS pandemic in Africa, and
how the heroic African grandmothers are the only ones
holding devastated families and communities together,
they will want to help out.

Our Rhubarb Rally in Sherwood Park, Alberta on June 7th
will help to make hundreds of people aware of that situation."

The African grannies are renowned for using whatever materials are available, and putting them to the best practical use. We thought that we would like to emulate their resourcefulness by using what is abundant and plentiful in our own region in spring: rhubarb. We ordered two books from Ontario which have literally hundreds of recipes in them, and because we wanted to give everyone a novel rhubarb “experience”, we chose a variety of unusual items which we will serve at a public gathering in support of the African grandmothers. The recipes for every item offered at this event will be available for our guests to take home at the end of the day.

Go on-line to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to find out more
about the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign
and how you can help.

Savor The Rhubarb - Rhubarb-Festivals is proud to support the Grandmothers Of Alberta and Knit A Square for the fine work they are doing.

Knit-a-square

There are an estimated 1.4 million orphans in South Africa, many of them as a result of losing their parents to HIV AIDS. The number is growing - over 500 children a day become orphans. This is a terrible and mostly unrecognised human tragedy.

Knit-a-square.com has been recently set up to ask the knitters and crocheters of the world to send an 8 x 8" (20 x 20cm) square or more to specified charities in South Africa and Zimbabwe, where they will be made up into blankets for these children.

The orphans live in terrible poverty. They need love, shelter, food, education and warmth. Many charities are working hard to provide the first four. The knitters of the world can provide the last.

Visit Knit A Square To Support A Great Cause

June 12th & 13th 2010

Rhubarb Festival
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Free Admission - small rhubarb plates available for purchase
$6.00 Wine Tastings
White Silo Farm & Winery
32 Route 37 East
Sherman, CT 06784

Spend a day on our farm sampling our fresh Rhubarb recipes. Free
farm museum, winery and field tours. Picked rhubarb
and rhubarb plants available for purchase.

White Silo Farm & Winery

Rhubarb Rhapsody Rhubarb-Festival June 12, 2010 Cole Harbour Heritage Farm 471 Popular Dr, Dartmouth Nova Scotia

Phone: (902) 434-0222; 462-0154 Website: www.coleharbourfarmmuseum.ca

Rhubarb a Plenty Remember Rhubarb pie at Grandma's house...Come and enjoy a special rhubarb treat on June 13th and 14th and a different rhubarb treat each day of this week long opening event. We have some of Grandma's receipe to share.

Jeddore Oyster Pond Marine Drive
Hwy 7
Nova Scotia Canada

from Fisherman's Life Museum Annual Rhubarb-Festivals Event

CHUM COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER June 26th 2010 DULUTH
More than 900 rhubarb pies, along with jams, breads muffins and other rhubarb foods, are expected to be sold at Churches United in Ministries' sixth annual Rhubarb Festival.

The festival has become CHUM’s largest community fundraiser,
with money supporting the group's food shelves and emergency
shelter. Enter the Rhubarb Lovers' Recipe Contest

Lots to do, and check bottom link for Recipe Contest rules and deadline.

Duluth, MN 55802

http://www.chumduluth.org/recipecontest.htm


For the Month of July 2010
July 4, 2010
Silverton Colorado Rhubarb-Festivals

Silverton Rhubarb Festival

Rhubarb Festival
July 17 2010
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Riverside Park, Saranac Lake N.Y.

Various rhubarb baked goods and other treats, packets of rhubarb recipes, T-shirts, rhubarb stalks and root balls will be sold.

Celebrate rhubarb in food, games, contests, music, a raffle and more.

Festival chair Barbara Rexilius, nicknamed "Rhubarbara" because of her enthusiasm for the vegetable, hopes that rhubarb will become a serious cash crop for the North Country. "Why can't it be a cash crop," she said, "if you can find other uses for it than strawberry-rhubarb pie?"

Contests will include: best rhubarb pie, biggest and most beautiful leaf, longest stem and fattest stem. In addition, artists young and old are urged to create art that best represents the essence of rhubarb in the form of poetry, music, drawings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, garden ceramics, clothing or any other type of expression, the release said.

The Rhubarb Festival will be celebrated along with the Saranac Lake Village Farmers' Market, which will occur from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the same day in the park.

For further information about the festival, which is sponsored by the Adirondack Unitarian Universalist Community, call Rhubarbara at 891-1941.

11th Annual Rhubarb Frenzy at WineHaven Winery
Date: Aug 12 - Aug 15, 2010
Place: WineHaven Winery and Vineyard 9757 292nd Street Chisago City, MN 55013

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Also note - At the start of the "New Year", the dates for these rhubarb-festivals will gradually change to adapt to staying current.

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