Crafters and Artists Needed for Union County Harvest Festival

The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is looking for artisans and crafts people to demonstrate Early American work and craft skills at the county’s 32nd Annual Harvest Festival.

The event is a celebration of Early American life featuring music, children’s crafts, games, demonstrations and displays, a petting zoo and more. Artists showing their wares will also have the opportunity to sell their creations. 

Each year the festival attracts nearly 4,000 visitors and gives then a chance to learn about crafts and the Early American as they peruse old-school colonial and Native American skills such as blacksmithing, candle making, paper making, broom making, shoe making, hat making, jewelry making and quilting.

The Harvest Festival will take place, rain or shine, at Trailside Nature and Science Center in Mountainside on Sunday, Sept. 29, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. To participate, call the Union County Department of Parks and Community Renewal at 908-527-4096.