Bunnell celebrates Second Annual Potato Festival

While cabbage and sod are Flagler’s staple crops today, the potato remains an important agricultural feature and iconic figure of the county’s agricultural heritage and for more than a century, the spud was a staple crop in the Western part of Flagler County — chiefly grown for potato chips.

Thanks to the Bunnell Chamber of Commerce, the City of Bunnell and the City of Bunnell Community Redevelopment Agency, the potato will have its day in the sun at the Second Annual Potato Festival on Saturday, May 15th. The event is guaranteed to be a mashing good time for kids of all ages.

The festival presented by Vasilaros & Politis, P.A. will take place in downtown Bunnell from 9 AM to 6 PM. It will feature free children’s activities and games, the Inaugural Ride for Education, meat & potatoes cook off, pageant to crown Bunnell’s lovely “Potato Princesses,” mashed potato eating contest, mashed potato sculpting contest, beer garden, live music and some of the best homemade french fries you have ever tasted!

Here are the scheduled events:
9:00 a.m. (last bike out) Ride For Education (starts at State Street Diner)
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m Potato Pageant (City Hall)
12:30 p.m. Mashed Potato Eating Contest (Beer Garden)
1:00 p.m. Live Music: Low Profile (Beer Garden)
2:30 p.m. Meat & Potato Cook-off (City Hall)
4:00 p.m. Mashed Potato Sculpting Contest (Beer Garden)

Until 5 p.m. on May 13, we will accept applications for:
* Booths & vendors (registration fees waived)
* Contestants for the pageant (girls ages 1 to 10)
* Contenders for the Meat & Potatoes Cook Off
* Motorcycle enthusiasts for the Ride for Education poker run.

All applications and entry forms can be found at http://www.flaglerchamber.org/potato_festival.html.

Proceeds raised from the event will fund scholarships awarded each year to one or more graduating seniors who reside in Bunnell.

For more information, contact the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates 386.437.0106.