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2025 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2025
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
(see also: 2024  -  2023  -  2020  -  2019  -  2018  -  2016  -  2015)

August 29-September 1, 2025
Calumet County Fair
Chilton, Wisconsin
 

September 5-7, 2025
Darien Cornfest
Darien, Wisconsin
The festival includes corn eating & milk chugging contests, a pageant, carnival, bingo, bike ride, parade, crafts, fireworks, and softball, volleyball & horseshoe tournaments.

September 6, 2025  Annual Crafty Apple Fest - Chilton, Wisconsin
The community kicks off the fall season with its one-day festival of fun and activities for everyone including live music, artists & crafters, kids' tractor pull, pumpkin bowling, apple and pumpkin beer, and special apple-related food dishes and desserts. Pie Baking Contest.

September 6, 2025  Annual Pardeeville Watermelon Festival
Pardeeville, Wisconsin
The festival hosts the U.S. Watermelon Speed-Eating and Seed-Spitting Championships. Other activities include an open air farmers market, flea market, arts/crafts, kid's games, music, baked goods auction, and of course, free sliced watermelon for all!

September 6-October 26, 2025  Autumn Harvest Fest Weekends
Mukuwonago, Wisconsin
Saturdays & Sundays only.  Whether you’re continuing a family tradition or starting a new one this fall, The Elegant Farmer offers a family fun farm experience weekends 10 a.m.-5 p.m.  Everyone is welcome to the orchard to pick from our 12 varieties of apples right from the tree or pumpkins from the patch. Enjoy beautiful fall colors aboard a tractor-pulled hayride, pony ride or train ride.
 

September 13-14, 2025  33rd Annual Maple Fall Fest
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Bring the whole family to celebrate Maple Fall Fest in Marshfield. Come hungry to devour stacks of pancakes and sought after potato pancakes all topped with melted butter, exclusive Wenzel Farm Maple Sausage and some of Wisconsin's best local maple syrup sure to satisfy the whole family. After you eat your fill, check out how maple syrup is made and you can take home some syrup and even the tools and knowledge to tap your trees and cook up some homemade maple goodness of your own.

September 18-21, 2025  86th Annual Blair Cheese Festival
Blair, Wisconsin
The annual festival will offer fun for the whole family with great music, excellent food, games and entertainment for the kids, car & semi show, tractor poker run, motorcycle poker run, Cheese Chase 5K,  quilt show and more.

September 19-20, 2025  Wet Whistle Wine Fest - Algoma, Wisconsin
Von Stiehl Winery.  Award-winning wines, grape stomp, heritage foods, fine art & live music!

September 19-21, 2025  River Falls Bacon Bash - River Falls, Wisconsin
Pig-themed activities for the entire family, live music, merchandise from local artists, bacon vendors and much, much more! Come out and sample bacon-inspired dishes from local restaurants and food vendors. Then cast your vote for the People’s Choice Winner!  Partake in pig-themed activities including pig races, live music, local micro-brewed beer and much more. The Bacon Bash will feature restaurants and food vendors serving dishes ranging from bacon-wrapped delights to ice cream. Some 40 merchandise vendors will be showcasing their products including specialty sauces, ice cream, arts, crafts and novelty items that put a “twist” on marketplace shopping.  The Bacon Bash—now the second largest bacon festival in the Midwest— has been named the Super Qualifier elite event for the World Food Championships.

September 20-21, 2025 - Annual Wine & Harvest Festival
Cedarburg, Wisconsin
Award-winning wines from Cedar Creek Winery. Tempting foods with a harvest flavor, featuring steamed corn, caramel apples, caramel apple and cherry crepes, kettle corn, apple cider, turkey legs, brats, burgers and savory seasonal delights in food courts all over town.

September 20-21, 2025  26th Annual Thresheree & Harvest Festival
Richfield, Wisconsin
Steam Driven Threshing & Log Sawing; Plowing with Horses; Demos of Skills from Long Ago; Antique Tractors & Cars; Great Music, Delicious Food.

September 25-28, 2025  New Glarus Oktoberfest
New Glarus, Wisconsin
Oktoberfest offers many spirited activities  in downtown New Glarus including live music, great food, local beer, wagon rides, chainsaw carving, plus plenty of family fun. Live music in the festival tent all weekend!

September 26-28, 2025  66th Annual Apple Festival
Gays Mills, Wisconsin
Celebrating the apple harvest with parades, carnival, arts & crafts, flea market, music, dancing, food and festivities. Always the last full weekend in September.

September 26-28, 2025  52nd Annual Warrens Cranberry Festival
Warrens, Wisconsin
The largest cranberry festival in the world, with about 100,000 people attending. The small community of approximately 300 people is home to the largest concentration of cranberry marshes in the state, which harvest an average of 285 million pounds of the ruby-red berries. Always the last full weekend in September.  Attendance: 100,000.

September 27, 2025  4th annual Harvest Gathering
Stoughton, Wisconsin
Hosted by REAP Food Group and Yowela Farms, the Harvest Gathering is made possible by local chefs, growers, and knowledge keepers.  This event celebrates Indigenous knowledge, local food, and seasonal abundance. Highlights include cultural food workshops, opportunities to participate in regional food planning, a farm tour, live music, and a family-style feast featuring ingredients grown right here in our region.

September 27, 2025  60th Annual Beef-A-Rama - Minocqua, Wisconsin
Storefront beef roast cook-offs, costumes & unique displays, complimentary snacks, shopping specials, 'Parade of Beef,' celebrity judges, awards & famous beef sandwich sale, arts & crafts, live music.  For over 50 years, Beef-a-Rama has been a premier event drawing visitors for one-of-a-kind fun you can only find in the Northwoods.  Attendance: 12,000.
 

2023 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2023
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
events waiting for new dates

September 9, 2023  Annual Chowdown - Plymouth, Wisconsin
Join us and let local, amateur chefs tease your palette as they serve up a variety of exciting dishes for your tasting pleasure.  A full cash bar featuring an amazing selection of wines chosen by award-winning sommelier Jaclyn Stuart from Vintage Elkhart Lake will be available. The evening also features blues music, chances to impact kids in the community and the "Big Cheese" award, presented to the night's winning chef.
 

2020 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2020
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
events waiting for new dates

September , 2020  Taste on Broadway - Green Bay, Wisconsin
EVENT CANCELED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS.  Sample food from local Green Bay restaurants and drinks from our local breweries and wineries.  Enjoy an unforgettable night of live music and culinary experiences at the Broadway District’s premier food event.  Attendance: 10,000.
 

2019 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2019
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
events waiting for new dates

September 7, 2019 - Cashton FFA Toy Show Antique Tractor Show
Cashton, Wisconsin
Cashton High School Gymnasium, 540 Coe Street, Cashton, Wisc.  from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

September 8, 2019  31st Annual Juda Farm Toy Show - Juda, Wisconsin
9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Downtown Juda.  ?For more info call (608) 934-5460.
 

2018 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2018
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
events waiting for new dates

September 22, 2018  Wine & Food Experience - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Join us for the Journal Sentinel Wine & Food Experience featuring Richard Blais at Reed Street Yards Park! This culinary exploration showcases the best food, wine, and beer from local and national chefs. Plus guests can explore The Grateful House interactive demonstrations and entertainment.
 

2016 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2016
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
events waiting for new dates

September 10, 2016  Sunshine House Corn Fest - Carlsville, Wisconsin
Walk the corn maze, 20 acres of twisty, turny fun; silent auction & raffles; Corn Cafe; games & activities for kids; corny joke, pie eating, & corn eating contests. Sunshine House--creating community options for people of all abilities.

September 17, 2016 - Luther Days - Somers, Wisconsin
Taste of Germany at Luther Days.  Taste and Experience a wide variety of German food right here in Somers, Wisconsin! Come hungry so you can try everything from sauerkraut and bratwurst to schnitzel and beer-infused mustard. Food vendors will also sell traditional Bavarian and German food such as spit-grilled chicken, warm soft pretzels, potato salad, apple strudel, and honey-dumplings. Walk the mouth-watering Food Market at Luther Days and enjoy dozens and dozens of different pastries, meats, and finger foods.

September 24-25, 2016  Wisconsin Prepare to Survive Expo
Waukesha, Wisconsin
The "Prepare to Survive Expo" is an action-packed weekend that features a hands-on exploration into prepping, self-reliance, and disaster preparedness. More than 200 million people are affected by disasters each year. Protect yourself and your family by taking steps to be prepared. Prepping and homesteading are lifestyles of self-sufficiency and you will always have something else that you can learn and something else to do. Both urban and rural people can benefit from simple self-sufficient activities. Don't just learn about being prepared...experience it.
 

2015 WISCONSIN - SEPTEMBER 2015
FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS & SHOWS
events waiting for new dates

September 5, 2015  Rhinelander PotatoFest - Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Couch Potato Race, Potato Salad Taste Off, Games, Activities, Contests, Parade, Duck Regatta, Live Music, Fendors, Alice in Dairyland.