About the Artisan Bread Fair

DATE: Saturday, JULY 27, 2013.

HOURS: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

PLACE: Skowhegan State Fairgrounds. Directions.

COST: Free! and everyone is invited. Bring the family, bring your friends.

PARKING: All day parking at the Fairgrounds: $2.

Vendors: Over 40 vendors await you at the Artisan Bread Fair. Please see the list below, continually updated.

2013 vendor applications are now open.

TOUR: SOMERSET GRIST MILL . Tours scheduled Saturday, July 27, 2013, at 8:30 a.m. Meet at the yellow garage doors, Somerset Grist Mill, 42 Court Street, Skowhegan, Maine, 04976.

Last year 2500+ people took part in the Artisan Bread Fair, and this year we anticipate double that number who will come to sample delicious breads and pastries, enjoy handmade pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, buy the best books and equipment for baking at home, talk to professional bakers, listen to live music, find antique baking tools, beautiful kitchen linens, and scythes and other tools, get tips from King Arthur Flour experts about the use of their various baking flours, watch demos, and eat superb Maine made foods.

2013 VENDORS (continually updated)

Balfour Farm, bal fourfarmdairy.com

Cabot Cheese, cabotcheese.coop

Craquelins, crackerlicious.com

Daily Cloth, dailycloth.com

Echo Ridge Cheese, mainecheeseguild.org/?p=524

Enchanted Kitchen at Firefly Farm, enchantedkitchen.org

EQ Machinery, eqmachinery.com

Glass Paradox, www.glassparadox.com

Good Bread

Groundswell Seed Farm, groundswellseedfarm.com

Gryffon Ridge Spice Merchants, gryffonridge.com