EVENT DESCRIPTION

Demonstrations, live & local music, food and craft vendors, the famous tasting table, rhubarb stalk eating competition, face painting, rhubarb arts, obstacle course, raffles, rhubarbuterie boards, and a Rhubarb Garb fashion show!
This year our theme is Rhubarb is Sexy so wear your favorite rhubarb inspired attire!
For up-to-date schedule visit Kendall Farm.

In 2022, Georgie Kendall started the Rhubarb Festival. Now celebrated annually on the first Saturday in June, the festival offers demos on planting and caring for rhubarb and explores rhubarb’s versatility in food and drink. Local vendors, music, kids’ games, a rhubarb tasting table, crust making, and all things “rhubarb” are celebrated at this unique event in Downeast Maine.

Georgie Kendall grew up in Perry, Maine, attending church suppers as a child with her grandmother, Leona, who was an amazing baker. Leona made doughnuts and pie crust with lard. The only pies that weren’t devoured at those suppers were the rhubarb pies. Georgie has loved rhubarb since she was a kid so she could not understand why rhubarb pies were always the last to be finished. As a grownup, Georgie dreamed of hosting a rhubarb festival at her family’s farmstead to educate the community about rhubarb.