RFM's First Annual Tomato Festival

🍅 Join us for Regina Farmers’ Market’s First Annual Tomato Festival! 🍅

The entire Farmers' Market will be moving from Confederation Park in the REAL District to the Queen Elizabeth II Gardens in Wascana Centre on Saturday, August 3.

🗓️ Saturday, August 3, 2024
⏰ 9 AM - 2 PM
📍 Queen Elizabeth II Gardens, Saskatchewan Legislative Building

 Celebrate the beauty and bounty of Saskatchewan’s tomato crops in an authentic farmers' market atmosphere with activities for the whole family! Explore over 50 local vendors offering farm-fresh produce, artisan goods, and more — all made, baked, grown, or designed in Saskatchewan.

Enjoy a day filled with:

• 50+ local vendors
• Fenek Farms' petting zoo
• Live bluegrass music from "The Queensbury Breakdowns" & "The Better Halves"
• Potato sack races, cornhole & horseshoe games
• Tomato contest

Calling all Tomato Growers! 

Enter your tomatoes in the Regina Farmers’ Market’s First Annual Tomato Contest!

Think your tomatoes have what it takes? Compete against Regina Farmers’ Market’s most experienced growers for a chance to win $100 in Market Money!

Enter in the Best Homegrown Tomato category, or take on Regina Farmers’ Market growers in the open categories: Ugliest Tomato, Prettiest Tomato, and in embracing the slow start to our growing season – Tiniest Tomato!

Guest judges include The Bearded Prairie Chef, Josh Miller and Ashley Stone of Open Farm Days SK.

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Festival Map & Schedule

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Regina Farmers' Market Local Vendors Open

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Fenek Farms' Petting Zoo

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Carnival Games & Potato Sack Races

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Picnics on the West Lawn

10:30 AM | Deadline to Drop-off Tomato Contest Entries at Information Booth

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM | Country Standards performed on the Tomato Festival Stage by The Better Halves

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Bluegrass Music performed on the Tomato Festival Stage by the Queensbury Breakdowns

1:00 PM | Tomato Contest Judging Commences

Volunteer at the Tomato Festival! 

We are looking for 4-6 enthusiastic volunteers to assist during our First Annual Tomato Festival on Saturday, August 3. Volunteers will work in 2.5-hour shifts. As a thank you, volunteers will each receive a farmers' market T-shirt and $20 in market money to spend at your favourite vendor!

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The Regina Farmers’ Market is a non-profit co-operative that has been connecting the community directly with producers for nearly 50 years.