Mountain Harvest Festival

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Celebrating the arts and agriculture of Colorado’s North Fork Valley the last weekend in Spetember
🌶️🥂✨
FREE & family-friendly fun

Paonia’s festival is a celebration of local harvests – agriculture producers, musicians, artists, writers, and crafts-persons. Music is a constant accompaniment at the park while downtown you can partake in a Friday night Pub Crawl, and Saturday Downtown Dinner & Dancing in the street. Festival goers are encouraged to visit farms and wineries, shop at the Farmers Market, purchase local wine and beer at the Drink Locally tent, visit local arts venues, listen to recitations of our local poetry and prose, and make purchases at the arts and crafts booths.

10/21/2026

What was your favorite artist demo at MHF this year? 🪡🌼🏺🪹

Artist Laura Zick discusses her bookbinding process.

10/15/2026

What do you think of the new artists demos at the fest?!

Artist Jeff Wagner discusses basket weaving and his passion for teaching the process.

10/14/2026

The best way to make 200 friends in under ten minutes! 🤝

We loved bringing the North Fork Valley tradition of contra dance to this year’s festival. It was such a ruckus, good time! Contra dance has been a favorite pastime of the region for over a century, and on this 25th anniversary of Mountain Harvest, we hope the festival enjoys just as much longevity to come.

🪕 Big thanks to hardpressedband and Andrea Earley for providing the tunes and calling. We can’t wait to do it again next year!

10/05/2026

We’re still basking in the glow over here, but we want to know—What does Mountain Harvest Festival mean for your business? 📈🔥

If you were open September 25–27, please take a few minutes to tell us how your business did. 🙏

Your responses help us demonstrate the festival’s economic impact, advocate for local businesses, strengthen funding and sponsorship requests, and improve the festival for our business community.

📣 This is your opportunity to help us show the value of bringing visitors to the Valley. We want to hear what worked and what didn’t.

Responses are confidential. We report only aggregated results and never publish individual business revenue or identifying information.

🎫 Fill out the survey for a chance at a free 2027 NFVCC membership or a booth at 2027 MHF. Check the comments for the link.

Thank you for helping us tell the story of the North Fork Valley economy!

09/30/2026

🎶 For our final music set on Sunday, the Mountain Harvest All Stars delivered a roaring 90 minutes. These legends performed and helped organize the very first Harvest Fest 25 years ago.

During their set, they showcased what the North Fork is all about with this boppin’ ode to our local, award-winning w**eries! We love this celebration of arts and agriculture. 🎸🍷

Thank you to David Snider, Helen Highwater, Tim Veazey, Chris Goplerud, Ellen Hutto, and Tony Peters for closing out an wonderful fest the same way you started it all—with some incredible rock ‘n rock! 💚

09/29/2026

Thank you for joining in traditions, old and new! It was a wonderful fest! 🌶️⛰️🎶

https://www.kvnf.org/news/2026-09-29/paonias-mountain-harvest-festival-marks-silver-anniversary

Festival Director Lillia McClure discusses how the celebration became a Paonia tradition.

09/26/2026

It’s a perfect autumn day to have a perfect autumn day! 🍁✨

The rain has cleared, the musicians are tuned up, and Paonia Town Park is as inviting as ever.

Today’s the day for FARM TOURS from 10-2pm throughout the valley. 🐷🍷

🌳 Or join us under the big trees for live music, artist demonstrations, an artisan vendor village, local food, and more.

We can’t wait to see you out there! 🌶️⛰️🎶

Address

Paonia, CO
81428

Website

http://www.mountainharvestfestival.org/

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