Dates: October 8–9, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road (intersection of Routes 102 and 183), Stockbridge, Mass.

The Harvest Festival will include continuous family entertainment; a giant tag sale featuring repurposed, gently used household items, clothing, and jewelry; and an expanded plant sale and farmers market. Children’s activities include hayrides; pony rides; a haunted house; pumpkin tossing; a hay maze; interactive music; roving entertainers, and back by popular demand, “The Pocket Lady.”

Live entertainment begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, with Andy Kelly’s Jazz Ambassadors and New Orleans jazz. Entertainment continues throughout the weekend with the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School Puppet Wagon Show; Caribbean music by Zikina; Tom Ricardi’s program on birds of prey; acrobats for Berk Cirque; Bryson Lang’s family friendly comedy and juggling, and concerts by The Misty Blues and Robin Gerson Wong . On Sunday, entertainment includes Moonshine Holler, The Lucky Five, Union Jack, The O-Tones, Soul Magnets, and Peter Poirier.

Barrington Brewery will be pouring the suds near the food court. There will be apple squeezing as well.

BBG’s Harvest Festival has earned a reputation for being a quintessential Berkshire family event celebrating the autumn harvest, when the 24-acre Garden is transformed into a vibrant hub featuring family fun and over 100 regional artisan food and craft vendors. Admission to the Harvest Festival is $10 cash for adults; children under 12 are admitted free. There is no charge for parking in the Garden’s lots. Harvest Festival wristbands can be pre-purchased at the Garden’s Visitor Center through Oct. 7. Dogs (with the exception of registered service dogs) are not permitted at the Harvest Festival.

This year’s Harvest Festival is generously sponsored by the Red Lion Inn, Meadow Farm Equipment and Berkshire Green Septic Services. All proceeds from this event benefit the Garden’s education and horticulture programs.

NOTE: No advanced registration is required.

The Garden really needs volunteers! Please sign up for the four-hour shift of your choice over this two-day Columbus Weekend event. Find all the open Harvest Festival jobs by clicking HERE.

Find a detailed schedule HERE.