Thank You For A Successful 2024 Adirondack Harvest Festival!

By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Leader |

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who made our 2024 Adirondack Harvest Festival a success! This event would not have been possible without the hard work of over 81 businesses and organizations, 42 volunteers, and 21 staff members.

We’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to our volunteers, vendors, performers, partners, team members, and sponsors who made this year’s event possible.

It is our honor to facilitate this event, but the magic really comes from all of the amazing and talented people that have a commitment to the land they steward, their community, and the quality of the products the grow and make. We simply bring together and support the creative and passionate people who care about our local farms and their community.

Some comments from participants: “Best event all summer!”, “What a welcoming, clean, and upbeat atmosphere”, “Affordable, accessible and approachable”, “So much to do, see, eat, and learn!”. “I learned about so many farms I didn’t know about before”, “We will be back in 2025 with all of our friends!”.

We want to recognize Laurie Davis and Mary Godnick – the Adirondack Harvest program team who planned and coordinated the 2024 event! Also, a big thank you to the rest of the CCE Essex Team for their many days of hard work and support.

Much appreciation to Essex County DPW, Buildings & Grounds and especially fairgrounds manager Glenn Williams for his excellent troubleshooting capabilities.

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Photos from the 2024 Adirondack Harvest Festival by Katie Kearney

Thank you to our…

VENDORS & COMMUNITY PARTNERS

• Adirondack Friends of Refugees & Immigrants
• Adirondack Land Trust
• Adirondack Winery
• Adk Action & Compost for Good
• AHA Mushrooms
• Artesania Xochiquetzal
• As You Wish Signs & Gifts
• Ausable Brewing Company
• Bacon Hill Botanicals
• Barred Owl Brook Farm
• Ben Wever Farm
• Bert’s Jams & Jellies
• Black Swan Floral Design
• Boquet River Association
• CCE Master Gardener Volunteers
• Champlain Area Trails
• Chill Baskets
• Cleveland Farms & Homestead
• Craigardan
• Crown Point Bread Co.
• Crown Point Farm & Dairy
• Dub’s BBQ
• Early Dawn Confections
• Elizabethtown Social Center
• Essex County Public Health
• Essex County Soil and Water Conservation District
• Essex County WIC
• Essex Food Hub
• Fort Ticonderoga
• Four Maples Vineyard and Winery
• Grim’s Garlic
• Gristmill Distillers
• Homeward Bound Adirondacks
• Hopenhagan Farm
• Hunter French’s Liquid Gold
• Ilyssa Rae Flowers
• John Brown Lives!
• Lake Champlain Basin Program
• Lakeside School
• Lomeli’s Mexican Food Truck
• Miss Bee Haven Apiary
• Moon Valley Farm LLC
• Mossbrook Roots
• Mountain Lake Services Seed to Table
• Mousseau Maple
• My Hope Flower Farm
• NNY Audubon
• NOFA-NY
• North Woods Bread Company
• Northern Power & Light
• Olde Tyme Winery at Brandy Brook Maple Farm
• Orta Foods
• Papa Duke’s BBQ
• Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute
• Rivermede Farm Store
• Sherman Wood Crafts
• Sylvanbrook Spinnery
• Taste of Lahore
• The Enchanted Edible Forest at Cross Island Farms
• Ti Food Co-op
• Together for Youth
• Wadham’s Free Library
• Westport-Wadhams Community Alliance
• Whallonsburg Grange Hall

ACTIVITIES, & ENTERTAINMENT

• ADK Horsemanship Pony Rides
• Heard
• Ian Hamelin
• Lucky Clover Wagon Rides
• Ploughman’s Lunch
• The Big Takeover

AND OUR SPONSORS & DONORS

• Adirondack Council/ Essex Farm Institute
• Adirondack Land Trust
• Adk Action
• ANCA
• Audubon NNY
• Chazy Westport Communications
• Cloudsplitter Foundation
• Essex County
• Essex County Farm Bureau
• Farm Credit East
• John Brown Lives!
• Johnny’s Select Seeds
• Rivermede Farm
• Stewart’s
• Sylvamo
• Town of Essex
• Town of Westport