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2024 KENTUCKY: March & April 2024
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
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March 2-4, 2024
2nd Annual Purchase Area Coffee & Chocolate Fest
Calvert City, Kentucky
You'll find even more vendors, tastings, samples, new products, contests, educational experiences, and all the eats & treats for all palates. There will be coffee/food trucks out front, a heated enclosed tent eating pavilion, indoors vendors, and a classroom

March 4-8, 2024 - National School Breakfast Week - Nationwide
School Nutrition Association.  'Make the Grade with School Breakfast.'

March 19, 2024 - 'AgDay' National Agriculture Day - Nationwide
A day to recognize & celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture.

March 22-23, 2024  West Kentucky Home, Garden & Farm Show
Murray, Kentucky

March 29-April 1, 2024  Annual Tater Day - Benton, Kentucky
The streets of Benton fill with thousands of people, all who have come to the annual celebration of the sweet potato. Tater Day started in 1842 with the trading and selling of sweet potatoes. Participate in this 3-day event featuring beauty pageants, gospel singing, Tater Day Fitness Trot, flea market, cook-off, arts & crafts, food concessions, and a parade.

April 26-27, 2024  Clinton- Hickman County Spring Chicken Festival
Clinton, Kentucky
This annual festival is held on the fourth weekend in April with festivities beginning with a Chicken Idol singing contest on Friday, from 6 pm - 10 pm. The festivities kickoff on Saturday with a 5k/10k race that begins in Clinton and runs through the beautiful countryside of Hickman County. Throughout the day there will be live music by local artists from Carlisle, Hickman, and Fulton counties. Of course, it wouldn’t be a festival without delicious food. Other activities include arts & crafts booths, a corn hole tournament, antique farm equipment, fun run for kids, a petting zoo and a Wild-Wing Cook-Off contest.

April 27-28, 2024  32nd Mountain Mushroom Festival - Irvine, Kentucky
A celebration of Estill County's Appalachian culture. Mushroom theme activities include a morel market, cook-off, cake decorating contest, mushroom hunter interviews, morel/shiitake cooking demonstrations, contest for largest and most mushrooms, Fungus 5K run/walk, parade, and window decorating contest.
 

2018 KENTUCKY: March & April 2018
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
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March 3, 2018 - Annual Wine Walk - Newport , Kentucky
Visit the participating venues at the Levee and receive a taste of both a red and a white wine at each stop as well as a few light appetizers! You'll also receive a commemorative 2018 Wine Walk wine glass! Registrants must be 21+ to participate. Tickets are just $35 and go on sale February 1st.

April 20, 2018  Pork-in-the-Park BBQ Cookoff - Nancy, Kentucky
Pork-n-The Park – Pulaski Co. Park, 1200 Hwy 3189, Nancy, KY 3pm-7pm Friday and all day Saturday. Come out and enjoy some delicious food at this BBQ Cook Off at the Park. Steve Taylor in concert from 12pm-3:30pm, BBQ tastings 1pm-3:30pm with Best BBQ Awards at 4:30pm. Info and detailed times 606-636-6450.
 

2017 KENTUCKY: March & April 2017
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
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March 25, 2017  Kentucky Bourbon Festival Sampler
Bardstown, Kentucky
A fun-filled evening of sampling a variety of Kentucky bourbons and foods from area restaurants. The theme for September's Festival will be unveiled.

March 31-April 3, 2017 - The 174th Annual Tater Day
Benton, Kentucky
The streets of Benton fill with thousands of people, all who have come to the annual celebration of the sweet potato. Tater Day started in 1842 with the trading and selling of sweet potatoes. Participate in this 3-day event featuring beauty pageants, gospel singing, Tater Day Fitness Trot, flea market, cook-off, arts & crafts, food concessions, and a parade.
 

2016 KENTUCKY: March & April 2016
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
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April 28-May 8, 2016  17th Annual Herb Festival
Bowling Green, Kentucky
South's Largest Herb Festival!  Wild Bird and Nature Store’s annual Herb Festival! Choose from herbs, perennials, antique and knock-out roses, fountains, bird baths, antique garden art and more.