Applications Being Accepted for Toccoa Harvest Festival

Planning is underway for the 39th annual Toccoa Harvest Festival.

This year’s Harvest Festival is scheduled for Saturday, November 7 and Sunday, November 8 in downtown Toccoa.

Every year at the Harvest Festival, some 200 vendors gather to sell their “homemade, home baked, or home grown” items.

Among the items sold are crafts like handmade quilts, soaps, jewelry, baskets, pottery, crocheted items, Christmas decorations, wreathes, candles, birdhouses, folk art, baked goods, and more.

The festival includes many local vendors each year, as well as crafters and vendors from other areas of the state and from other states like South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, and even Wisconsin.

Toccoa Main Street Events Coordinator Sharon Crosby said that the city is seeking vendors now to sign up for this year’s Harvest Festival.

“We have been getting in applications, but we would really like to have this be an opportunity for our local crafters,” said Crosby. “We are looking forward to another really good year and we are hoping our local crafters will join us again this year.”

Crosby said that the city is looking to have all vendors sign up by the middle of October.

She added that the Main Street Promotions Committee goes to great efforts to ensure that all vendors are selling “homemade, home baked, or home grown” items.

For more information on signing up for this year’s Toccoa Harvest Festival or go receive an application, call the Main Street office at 706-282-3309 or go online to www.mainstreettoccoa.com.