From 2024:

Flowers, vegetables (not as much fruit this year), quilts, paintings – even a fairy house! The Peachland Fall Fair was September 7 & 8. Our town’s longest-running tradition and this year’s theme was Roots and Shoots.

….no surprise that fruit entries were down this year:

Lots of vegetables, though! (and honey.)

….by the time 4pm rolls around Sunday, there’s a buzz in the gym. The winners are about to be announced! More than 20 trophies were handed out. Here are the overall winners:

Fred Resler won the Peachland Ace Hardware Trophy for highest total points in flowers and vegetables. You must be a Peachland resident to win this one. Fred won seven(!) other trophies Sunday for his talents in preserves, flowers, fruit and vegetables. You may recall he was a big winner last year, too – in 2023, he just missed out on the Grand Aggregate!

Another Fall Fair dominator – Lynda Brown! She’s a Peachland Garden of the Year winner and from handicrafts to flower arranging, she won eight trophies this year, including the big Grand Aggregate! She won this before, in 2019 and 2022.

Other overall award winners were Hannah Firth (highest total points, age 17 and under), Marissa Baecker (best Okanagan-themed entry) and Madeline Hoffman (junior, Okanagan Cup.)

…And that’s a wrap on the 105th Fall Fair. The volunteers are a well-oiled machine here – and it’s so fun to see what people can make, bake and grow!

From 2023:

It was a GREAT weekend. Lots of volunteers, more kids’ entries than in past years, some really stunning flowers, huuuge zucchini – just an over all, happy place to be. WTG to Fall Fair president Tami Theriault and Jenny Cooper, Linda Schneider, Mirjana Zubac, Patti Morley, Sigrid Orford, all the section heads, the trophy masters Paula and Peter McLaughlin, firefighters who set up and help clean up….this was my first year as a volunteer (second year entering stuff!) and it really is some of the best of Peachland that comes out to this – 103 years running!

Fall Fair president Tami Theriault (on the right) says they have so many great volunteers this year! It’s been a fun beehive of activity.

Martha Jenkins is kind of Fall Fair royalty – the longtime president retired in 2019 and it was nice to see her here again. She’s such a nice lady 🙂

The kids section had more entries this year than in the past!

Peaches. Of course 😊

There’s a full slate of entertainment, too! Double A played Saturday afternoon, and Kayleigh Adderley took the stage Sunday at 1 p.m.

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More pics of the Fall Fair volunteers!

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Here’s a bit more on the entertainment, from Tami Theriault..

We were fortunate to have one of our own committee volunteers offer to perform on Saturday, September 10th at 3pm. Alison Rota and her musical partner Al have an interesting story of how they got started. Alison shares this here in her own words:

“I had just moved here, from Vancouver,  when Covid hit, I hadn’t had a chance to meet anyone, and seclusion, was starting to affect me. I found a site called band mix, so I kept following the site, and then I saw a musician by the name of Al, who was in Peachland, answered the ad and the rest is history. We call ourselves, Double A, because my name is Alison, and all the bands I was in everyone called me Al, so we are both called Al,  so thus shortened, we became Double A🎸”
Double A will be sharing songs with you as you wander the Fair and look at the exhibits.

Our performer for Sunday, September 11th at 1 pm is also a member of our volunteer committee. Kayleigh Adderley is 15 and will be singing and playing guitar for your listening pleasure. Here is a bit about Kayleigh in her own words:

“So I’ve been playing guitar for a year and singing since I was a little kid. It’s what makes me happy and I can’t picture my life without it. It’s like a way to connect to singers and songwriters of the past. It’s a way to tell history and feel what those people felt.”
What a wonderful description of what music means to a young gal! That is how our volunteers feel about our beloved fair – like by hosting the fair, we are keeping the connection to the past – so Kayleigh makes a great fit for a performer at the Fair!

We will also have our lovely face painter Jessie in attendance on both Saturday, September 10th and Sunday, September 11th so be sure to visit her while you are at the Fair!

See you at the Fair!

-Tami Theriault
President, Peachland Fall Fair

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Did you know the Peachland Fall Fair is 103 years old? It’s happening this Sept 10 and 11 – and first-timers are encouraged to enter!

Here are the categories:

Baking and Preserves

Flowers

Needlework

Fruit and Nuts

Vegetables, Eggs and Honey

Handicrafts

Flower Arranging 

Photography / Junior Photography

Juniors – everything from Lego, to jewelry, collections, cards, painting and more.

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If you’ve never entered / think your stuff isn’t good enough – you’ll be surprised at your odds of winning one of those ribbons! Why not give it a try this year? The fall fair committee is happy to answer any questions. You can find all the contact info on their website or by picking up the official Fall Fair booklet at these places:

Peachland Museum

Peachland visitors Centre

Peachland Community Centre

Peachland Library

Peachland Ave Hardware

Peachland Pharmacy

Westbank Visitors Centre

Buckerfields

Westbank Library

Byland’s Garden Centre

Dogwood Nursery

Home Hardware West Kelowna

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What a great parade float! The fall fair committee was out and about on Canada Day in Peachland:

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Yes, it’s June and the 103rd Peachland Fall Fair is September 10 & 11 – but there are flowers and veggies to grow, handicrafts to start, and maybe some baking to plan!

For volunteers putting the fair together, it’s getting busier, too. The Fall Fair booklet is coming out soon – there’s new categories / items to enter this year. Pretty much anything you can think of, you can enter – (biscuits, pies, preserves, bouquets of flowers, knitting, felting, big pumpkins, perfect apples, nuts, eggs, carrots, herbs, beadwork, stained glass, adult colouring, painting, photography, fun collections…I really could go on!) Look over the book (we’ll let you know how to get your hands on one!) and the section heads are happy to answer any of your questions. New entries are definitely welcome!

On June 4, the fall fair set up a booth at the 50+ Centre. It was part of the Car Boot / Trunk sale and Hub open house! It takes a small army to make this fair happen, and here are a few longtime volunteers!

Would you like to help out this year? Info below ⬇️

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It’s official – the Fall Fair is a go! It’s a tradition 103 years’ young, and president Tami Theriault says the committee wanted to wait til May to decide whether this year’s fair is a go. She has a great team of longtime volunteers who really know the ins and outs of everything – and they’re always looking for help! Whether you want to volunteer for the days of the fair, help plan in advance – or anything really, chances are there’s a job for you! Email the committee, check out the Fall Fair Facebook page or their website!

I met Tami in 2019, when she and then-president Martha Jenkins paid me a visit at the old Peachland View house on 3rd St. Gardening is my favourite thing to do, so by the end of the visit, Tami had convinced me to enter and I was happy to write articles leading up to the fair.

…and the fair was so fun! I entered some flowers, the kids entered Lego and a seashell collection and we all left with ribbons. The community centre was a friendly beehive of activity, and there was just something about wandering around, looking at the results of what people like to do in their spare time. Scroll on for some photos! (Thanks for these, Paula McLaughlin!)

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Here’s some pics I took during the 2019 fair:

Third place for flower arranging, woohoo!

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THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER, 2021:

It’s a bummer, but not unexpected: The Peachland Fall Fair that was planned for Sept. 11 and 12, 2021 has been cancelled.

Fall Fair president Tami Theriault – who has been at the helm the past two years, is obviously disappointed, but the decision was for the best.

“After the cancellation of the 2020 Fair, we had been hopeful that we would go ahead this year,” she said.

“But as the months passed we realized that due to the stringent Covid-19 protocol that would be required in order for us to hold a public event, as well with the Covid situation being unknown and unpredictable, we have made the decision to cancel the Fair for this year.

As well, we do not feel it is appropriate to approach businesses for sponsorship during these difficult times and will look forward to the community involvement once again next year.”

So, the Fall Fair will be virtual again – give their Facebook page a follow, because they’ll be letting you know how you can post your crafts, consumables and other fall fair items. It’ll still be fun!

Theriault said this year’s volunteer crew is 20 strong, and they’re always looking for more help. We joked that the 2022 fair will be the BEST EVER! 🙂

“How do we feel about the fall fair being cancelled? We are saddened and disappointed but we are excited to get to work planning the 2022 Peachland Fall Fair. See you at the Fair,” Theriault says.

The 2019 edition was so fun!

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The best part of Peachland’s Fall Fair is seeing all the projects people have been up to. For the 2020 edition of the fair, volunteers decided on a virtual version, by encouraging everyone to sharing pictures of their baking, handicrafts and garden bounties.

As The Phoenix reported back in April, the 2020 version (the 101st edition, which was set for Sept 11-13) was cancelled due to COVID.

“So, what we thought because a lot of it is visual, people can share on our Facebook page what they would have entered in the fair,” said Theriault, who served her first year as Fall Fair President in 2020.

If you go to the Fall Fair’s website, you can get an idea of all the categories – From baking, to photography, handicrafts, fruits, vegetables and flowers. Kids can enter too!

“Basically, we just want people to share,” said Theriault.

“We want to keep interest in the fair going. We don’t want people to forget about us!”

Visit the Fall Fair website for more info, check out their Facebook page or you can email

Peachland’s 100th Fall Fair was in 2019.

info@peachlandfallfair.ca if you have any questions.