Blueberry Festival

Thank you for attending the 2024 Blueberry Festival!

Check out this video from Service Electric about this year’s festival!

Blueberry Festival Overview

It’s the sweetest festival of the summer…and you’re invited! Make a plan to visit Bethlehem’s beautiful Burnside Plantation July 13 & 14 for great food; live music; fresh, delicious blueberries and desserts, Colonial cooking, gardening; kids activities; and much more!

Blueberry Festival Vendors

Crafters

• Cheryl Baker, Moravian Star Maker
• Whisker Biscuits
• Keystone Farms Cheese
• Rebel Hive Meadery
• Soaps on Linden
• The Bake-A-Re
• Mother Nature Minerals
• Country Brooms
• Diedre Rose Designs

Food Vendors

• K’Town Pub
• Heaven on a Bun
• Taco Town
• DonutNV

New this year! Blueberry Tavern

The Blueberry Tavern features tastings (ticketed) and full size pours from some of your favorite Lehigh Valley producers and distributors!

Blueberry Tavern Vendors

• Christmas City Spirits
• Xplorer Spirits

Blueberry Entertainment Schedule

Saturday, July 13

Sunday, July 14

*Entertainment Schedule is Subject to Change

Best Blueberry Dessert Culinary Contest

Contest Requirements:

• Exhibitor must be 16 years or older and an amateur chef.
• You are responsible for your own serving dish. No part of the entry will be returned.
• If flour is required in recipe, King Arthur flour must be used with receipt of purchase included.
• Entrants recipe, name, phone number, address, age, and email must be printed on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper and submitted along with their entry on the day of the contest.
• Filling must include at least 1 cup of blueberries.
• Recipe must include all ingredients, quantities, and preparation instructions.
• Refrigeration is not available at the Blueberry Festival. If your entrée needs to be chilled prior to judging, please pack in a cooler.

Kids 15 + Under Culinary Contest

Contest Requirements:

• Exhibitor must be 15 years or younger and an amateur chef.
• You are responsible for your own serving dish. No part of the entry will be returned.
• If flour is required in recipe, King Arthur flour must be used with receipt of purchase included.
• Entrants recipe, name, phone number, address, age, and email must be printed on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper and submitted along with their entry on the day of the contest.
• Filling must include at least 1 cup of blueberries.
• Recipe must include all ingredients, quantities, and preparation instructions.
• Refrigeration is not available at the Blueberry Festival. If your entrée needs to be chilled prior to judging, please pack in a cooler.

Judging Criteria for 15 + Under & Adult Culinary Contests:

• Flavor Aroma, taste, balance of flavors. 30 POINTS.
• Texture Consistency, doneness, and moistness. 25 POINTS.
• Outside Characteristics Overall appeal, uniform shape. 15 POINTS.
• Originality Creative use of ingredients and recipe. 15 POINTS.
• Process Ease/Difficulty of recipe. 15 POINTS.

Vendor Applications

Want to be a part of the sweetest festival of the summer? Apply to be a crafter or food vendor today!

Have additional questions about being a vendor? Contact Beth Beatty, Special Events Manager.

Photos from Past Festivals