Darke County will showcase the 8th annual Fall into Christmas Food Truck Rally & Craft Show on Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 10am-7pm at the Great Darke County Fairgrounds. The fairgrounds is located at 800 Sweitzer Street in Greenville, Ohio. The food truck rally and craft show will be a celebration of local, small businesses. Small businesses are the backbone of our economy in the United States, Ohio and Darke County. Come out and help support them during this food truck and craft show celebration. These local small businesses need your support NOW more than ever! The event will be rain or shine with free admission to the craft show.
$5 for parking and proceeds will help Solid Rock Apostolic Church from Bradford, Ohio. Solid Rock Church will be collecting non-perishable food for a Thanksgiving food drive to bless families in Darke County. Go to the registration table located across from the gazebo area to enter your name in the drawing for a chance to win over $1000 in gift cards and prizes. You will receive an entry ticket when you park your car at the fairgrounds. You can earn extra entries for each non-perishable food item you donate for the food drive. We appreciate all of our local business sponsors who have helped promote this great event for our community. Winners will be announced each hour and you can collect your prize at the gazebo.
The food trucks will be open from 10am-7pm and include the following: Buckeye Burgers, CaliOH Eats, Cousins Maine Lobster, Crème de la Crème Cakery, GoDown’s Fixins, Gypsy Kitchen, Homestead Spud, Kettle Colonel, La Granja Mexican Food Truck, Nacho Pig, Travelin’ Tom’s Coffee, Werling Street Eats, and Wholly Smokes BBQ.
Shop from a large selection of over 100 local craft vendors and specialty clothing boutique trucks and shops to find that perfect Christmas gift. The craft vendors will be open from 10am-7pm and located inside the coliseum, 4H Building and outside under tents.
This family-friendly event will have several fun activities for the entire family to enjoy.
Jungle Island Zoo is an extremely entertaining and excitingly educational, exotic animal encounter. The petting zoo features a wide variety of rare and unusual animals from around the world. Visitors can observe, pet, and feed the critters and everyone gets a front row seat. Young and old alike are delighted with real, hands-on exposure to animals most have only seen on television or in distant zoo enclosures. The Patterson family will have pony rides for kids to enjoy from 12-7pm.
Ro-Da-O-Farm from Arcanum will have horse-drawn wagon rides decorated for Christmas for the entire family to enjoy from 12-7pm.
All the way from the North Pole, Santa Claus will be making a special appearance to visit the kids at the Darke County Fairgrounds from 12-5pm inside the Youth/4H Building. New this year will be “Buddy the Elf” and the “Grinch with Cindy Lou” walking around the fairgrounds taking pictures and interacting with all of the guests.
Returning this year will be the Christmas train Fantasyland display inside the Youth/4H Building with Santa Claus. The Christmas train display is brought to you by the Richmond Area Railroaders Society from Richmond, Indiana. The mobile Christmas display runs seven trains on a 16’ x 25’ multi-level O/G scale display including The Polar Express with lines running through tunnels, industrial areas, and a town.
There is also a full day of entertainment located inside the 4H building.
The live entertainment includes the following:
Noah Back from 11am-1pm, Special dance performances from 5678 Dance company from 1-1:30pm and from 2-4pm the local Darke County band “Mora & The Boys”. Also inside the coliseum will be the violin and cello duet combo “Viva la Strings” performing classical and Christmas favorites.
Back by popular demand, will be the Little Miss & Mister “Fall into Christmas” Pageant. The age groups will be from 3-10 years of age. The Pageant will take place at 4pm located inside the 4H Building. Contestants will be judged based on costume creativity (Fall or Christmas themed), personality, on-stage questions and natural beauty (no makeup allowed).
If you are interested in participating in the pageant, email Jason Blackburn for an application:
“We couldn’t be happier about everything that’s come together for this much anticipated event for the Christmas season,” according to Jason Blackburn, the promoter of the event. “Amazing food, one-of-a-kind local crafts and great vendors, live music, a special visit from Santa, pony rides, petting zoo, horse and wagon rides, – it’s going to be a great day of family-friendly entertainment in Darke County, and we hope you can come join us!”
For more details about the event and to participate in contests, you can go to the following: www.facebook.com/cremedelacreme.cakery and then click on the Events tab for “Fall into Christmas Food Truck Rally & Craft Show 2024.”
You can also contact Jason Blackburn for more information by email at: thepromoterllc@gmail.com.
Event Details:
Fall into Christmas Food Truck Rally & Craft Show
Saturday, November 2, 2024, from 10am-7pm
Darke County Fairgrounds at 800 Sweitzer St, Greenville, OH 45331