Strawberry Festivals In June

This month Connecticut celebrates the Strawberry, you can tell it's Summer! Updated on 06/07/08.

Strawberry Thanksgiving Celebration
Join in the traditional Native American festivities marking the first berry of the season—the strawberry—with games, music and dance, a puppet show and Native storytellers Matoaka Little Eagle and Powhatan Swift Eagle. Free with Museum admission, free to Museum members.
Friday, June 13, 2008, 11 am - 3 pm
Admission: Free with museum admission.
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
110 Pequot Trail, Ledyard, CT 06339
Phone: (800) 411-9671
http://www.pequotmuseum.org


Lyman Orchards Strawberry Fest!
Enjoy a day of outdoor family fun, including strawberry picking, horse-drawn wagon rides, pie eating contests & prizes, a scavenger hunt, and the classic rock-til-you-drop music of the Red Hill Rockers, performing live on the Apple Barrel deck.
Breakfast on the Deck; 8am – 11am
Pick Your Own Strawberries; 9am-5pm
Frisbee Golf; 9am-5pm
Horsedrawn Wagon Rides; 11am – 3pm
Pony Rides; 12 noon – 3pm
Monthei Brothers Band; live performance on deck; 1pm-3pm
Strawberry Pie Eating Contest for Children and Adults; 2pm
Saturday, June 14, 8am - 5 pm
Lyman Orchards, Located at the Junction of Routes 147 & 157 in Middlefield, CT
Phone: 860-349-1793 www.lymanorchards.com


The 71st Annual Cheshire Strawberry Festival
Enjoy pony rides, a petting zoo, music, kids activities and fresh strawberry shortcake.
Saturday, June 14, 11am - 4:30 pm
On the green in front of the church.
The First Congregational Church,111 Church Drive, Cheshire, CT 06410
Phone: 203-272-5323 http://cheshirecongregational.org/


50th Annual Strawberry Festival & Craft Fair
Feast on some delicious strawberry shortcake and other refreshments, professional crafters, children’s games, pony rides, entertainment.
Saturday, June 21st, 10 am - 4 pm
New Horizons Village, 37 Bliss Road, Unionville, CT 06085
Phone: 860-673-8893 www.newhorizonsvillage.com



North Canton’s Annual Strawberry Festival

Giant tag sale, plant booth, kids crafts and game tables and fabulous strawberries!
Saturday, June 14, 2008 , 11 am - 5 pm
North Canton Community United Methodist Church,
3 Case St. (Rte. 179), Canton, CT 06059
Phone: 860-693-4589
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/northcantonumc/