Vegetables & Fruits

Registration Ends: Monday, Sept. 5, 11:59pm
Entry Drop Off: Saturday, Sept. 10, 10am-12pm
Entry Pick-Up: Sunday, Sept. 11, 12pm-4pm Winners Announced: Sunday, Sept. 11, 12pm

Winners will be announced on the Fair Main Stage and on the DC State Fair website.

DC Gateway Pavilion
St. Elizabeth’s East
2700 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE
Washington, DC, 20032

 

Awards Given 

Blue, red, and white ribbons will be awarded in the following categories:

  • Funkiest looking vegetable/fruit

  • Heaviest vegetable/fruit

  • Longest vegetable/fruit

  • Perfect vegetable/fruit

Additional awards may be awarded depending on variety of entries.

Contest Rules

  1. You must be an amateur gardener. 

  2. You can enter up to 3 separate vegetables/fruits, one per category. Please complete one form per entry.

  3. Your entry must be grown in your home, school, or community garden in DC or the allowed cities or counties (below).

You cannot enter if

  • You are a farming professional (including but not limited to farmer, processor, distributor). 

  • Your entry was not grown in the District of Columbia, Montgomery County, Arlington County, Prince George’s County, and Alexandria.

Entries not claimed by 6:00 p.m. on the day of the Fair will be donated or discarded.