Harbor Harvest Festival comes to downtown Blaine

A new festival coming to Blaine on Saturday, October 7 will celebrate fall and the local bounty the season brings.

Blaine Chamber of Commerce will host the Harbor Harvest Festival from noon to 6 p.m. in downtown Blaine. The event will have something for everyone, from shopping, food, live music, garden tours and a bouncy house. 

“The goal of this event is to bring local small farms, businesses and the Children’s Giving Garden to our community,” said Jacquee Sovereign, director of the Blaine Chamber of Commerce. “The harvest is local to us so we can support and sustain our own community.”

Lummi Seafood Market, Ghost Cat Farm and Spotted Owl Farm will be selling their harvests, including smoked salmon, sea cucumbers, urchin roe, quinces, apples, pears, hot sauce and produce. The festival will have food trucks from Bry’s Filipino Cuisine, It’s The Sweet Things, Street Dogz and Chef Bo’s Gourmet Jerky and Lemonade. CTK Blaine will be serving hot cider.

The Gateway 1890 Taphouse and Grill will have a beer garden on G Street Plaza. There will also be covered seating and an area with coloring pages for children on the plaza.

Live music will also be playing all day on G Street Plaza. Kickerville will start the festival tunes with a 12-1:30 p.m. performance, followed by Dial Up’s performance of ’90s and alternative rock covers 2-3:30 p.m. SpaceBand will close out the evening 4-5:30 p.m. with ’90s and early 2000s R&B and hip-hop covers.

Small county businesses will line H Street to sell an assortment of items, including apparel, children’s toys, soaps, jewelry, crocheted items and woodworking. Youth programs will have booths with kid’s activities and the Blaine Chamber of Commerce will raffle donated items at its booth. 

Drayton Harbor Oyster Company will keep the festival going at H Street Plaza with oyster specials at its restaurant, said co-owner Mark Seymour.

Just a 10-minute walk or short ride from downtown, Christ Episcopal Church will also host its annual harvest festival for families from noon to 3 p.m. at the Children’s Giving Garden, 382 Boblett Street. The church will have free garden tours, vegetable-themed games, educational presentations on harvesting, music, raffle prizes and mulled cider. Free pumpkins and flowers will be available to those who attend.

Blaine-Birch Bay Park and Recreation District 2’s little red bus will drive people from the church and the parking lot behind Jack Niemann’s Black Forest Steak House. 

A bouncy house, Halloween balloons and inflatable animals will also be located in the Black Forest parking lot. The bouncy house will cost $2 for a four-minute ticket.