The Granby Grange Agricultural Fair will be held on Saturday, Sept. 12, coinciding with Granby Open Farm Day. The Granby Grange invites locals to enter the creations from your gardens, kitchens, cameras and craft rooms for judging and a chance to show off skills to visitors from Granby and out of town. There will be categories for fruits, vegetables, eggs, canning, baking, arts, crafts and photography. To see all the categories and to enter, visit granbygrange.org and go to the Agricultural Fair under Events.
The fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Grange Hall at 212 N. Granby Road. Those wishing to enter items can drop them off at the Grange Hall either Friday, Sept. 11, 5–7 p.m. or Saturday, Sept. 12, by 8:30 a.m. The items will be judged at 9 a.m., and winners awarded ribbons and small cash prizes, and displayed until 2 p.m. Baked goods and vegetables will be sold to benefit the Grange. All other items can be picked up by 3 p.m.
This year’s President’s Choice Baking Competition will be Patriotic Sugar Cookes. Ice them in red, white and blue to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday.
Granby Grange Number 5 is a subordinate Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, a national organization that promotes community service and agricultural interests nationwide. Granby Grange plans and hosts the fair annually and meets monthly to plan community service and social events for its members. Granby Grange was originally founded in 1875 and was reorganized in 1926. Membership is open to all.
The fair will also be an opportunity to see the interior of the historic Grange Hall, which was, at one time, town hall and the site of a former school.