Tweed Harvest Festival 2026

Three days of fall fun at the Tweed Fairgrounds — now in its 9th year

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Live music, a car show, a colour run, and a movie under the stars — the Tweed Agricultural Society’s fall community weekend has quietly become a Hastings County tradition.

🎃 Pumpkin patch 🚗 Car show & touch-a-truck 🎨 Colour run 🎬 Movie under the stars

💡 Past editions have paired the festival with a perogie dinner and a live regional band — worth checking the current program for this year’s food and entertainment lineup.

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✨ Why This Festival Is Worth the Drive

Tweed is a small municipality in Hastings County, about an hour and a half from both Toronto’s outer edge and Ottawa, and the Harvest Festival is the kind of event that rewards knowing about it — a genuinely broad slate of activities packed into one weekend, organized entirely by the volunteer-run Tweed Agricultural Society, the same group behind the much larger summer Tweed Fair.

What’s struck people about the Harvest Festival’s growth over nine years is how much variety it packs into a single weekend without losing its small-town character. A car show and touch-a-truck event sits alongside a colour run and kid games; a vendor show runs concurrently with live music; and the whole thing has, in past years, closed out with a movie projected outdoors under the stars — a low-key, genuinely lovely way to end a fall weekend that started with engines revving and paint flying.

Past editions have also leaned into the harvest theme literally, with a pumpkin patch offering free on-site carving (bring your own tools) and giant pumpkin displays. Combined with a community perogie dinner and regional live acts in past years, it’s clear the organizers treat this less as a single showcase event and more as a rotating sampler of everything a small-town fall weekend can be.

There’s also a practical appeal for anyone touring eastern Ontario’s smaller towns each fall: Tweed sits within easy striking distance of the Bay of Quinte, Belleville, and the northern reaches of Hastings County, so a Harvest Festival weekend pairs naturally with a broader fall foliage drive through the area. The festival doesn’t try to compete with the bigger county fairs on scale — it competes on charm, and by most accounts, it wins that comparison easily.

🗓️ Weekend Overview

The full hour-by-hour schedule is typically published closer to the event on the festival’s website and Facebook page, but here’s the general shape of the weekend based on past years and confirmed 2026 activities. Expect timing to shift slightly year to year as the volunteer organizing committee finalizes vendor and entertainer bookings.

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🚗 Getting There & Parking

The festival grounds sit near the Tweed Hungerford Agricultural Building, a short drive from downtown Tweed and easily reachable by car from Highway 37 or Highway 7.

Parking: On-site parking is available at the fairgrounds, typical of rural agricultural society events in the region.

Driving in: Tweed is roughly equidistant from Belleville and Kingston to the south and Bancroft to the north, making it a manageable day trip from most of eastern Ontario. Toronto and Ottawa are both reachable in under two and a half hours, making the festival a realistic weekend destination even for city visitors looking for a change of pace.

💡 A Few Things Worth Knowing Before You Go

🎨 Bring a change of clothes if doing the colour run. The colour powder can get everywhere — pack a bag with a clean outfit for the rest of the day.

🔪 Bring your own pumpkin carving tools if the patch offers free carving — past years have supplied the pumpkins but not the tools.

🌙 Bring a blanket or lawn chair for the movie night. Outdoor screenings mean sitting on the grass — pack accordingly if you’re staying for the evening film.

📅 Check the official schedule closer to the date. The full hour-by-hour lineup is typically posted on the festival’s website and Facebook page in the weeks leading up to the event.

🚙 Bring the whole family. With activities spanning from toddlers to car enthusiasts, this is genuinely a weekend where everyone in the group can find something to do without splitting up.

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