Join us for the 27th NY Harvest Festival & Freedom Fair
Oct. 11-13, 2024
Electric Echo Lake, Bainbridge, NY
Join us for the 27th NY Harvest Festival & Freedom Fair
Oct. 11-13, 2024
Electric Echo Lake, Bainbridge, NY
Online Home of the NY Harvest Festival & Freedom Fair
NY Harvest Fest is a Northeast Classic featuring multiple stages, diverse musical lineup, vendor village, fine art gallery, public and celebrity cannabis cup, edible cup, workshops, activist & educational speakers, kids / family area, drum circle, farmers market, onsite camping, great people, good vibes and SO much more...
Often Imitated - NEVER Duplicated!
Harvest Fest is a celebration of our cannabis culture. A place where the culture could always feel free, despite prohibition. Now that cannabis is legal and its potential is starting to be realized, we are excited to bring this event back to the woods and mountains, at the beautiful Echo Lake!
We host the longest running cannabis competition in AMERICA!
Where EVERYONE is a JUDGE!
Music & Entertainment:
Dr. Jah and The Love Prophets
EARTH (Internationally Touring Classic Black Sabbath Tribute)
Gratefully Yours
Steal Your Face
Grateful Upstate Toodeloo
Friends of the Family
Ramona Lane
Papa MUSE
Patchwork Down
Spunday Morning
CC-13
Trapper & Friends
BlahsuM
Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd & Music of 1969 Woodstock Laser Light Shows!
and so much more....
Featuring:
Cannabis GROW WORKSHOPS
with Danny Danko
Dan Vinkovetsky (formerly Danny Danko of High Times) is a cannabis editor, writer, and photographer who was the senior cultivation editor of High Times Magazine and worked there for 18 years (2002-2020). He personally selected High Times' annual Top 10 Strains of the Year from 2005 to 2018 and created and founded the High Times Seed Bank Hall of Fame in 2007. He has judged more Cannabis Cups than anyone else on the planet. Danny is the author of "The Official High Times Field Guide to Marijuana Strains" (2011) and "Cannabis: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Marijuana" (2018).
and Donnie Greenthumb
Donnie has been growing medical marijuana since a very young age. He started working for a greenhouse at 13 years old. He learned so many organic tricks, compost teas, and the importance of soil ph. At 20 years old he wrote for High Times Magazine with John Holmstrom. Between the years 1989-2015 he assisted with writing 187 articles about basic questions, problems with growing, and how to get started in the great outdoors. He also wrote pests and diseases in the Horticulture Medical Growers Bible by Jorge Cervantes.
Public Cannabis Competition (longest running in USA)
Celeb. Cannabis Competition
Edible Cup
Biggest Nugg Contest
Joint Rolling Contest
Canna Scavenger Hunt
The Hash Dash
and so much more......
Prior to the last three years, Harvest Festival and Freedom Fair was celebrated as a "protestival". We have worked long and hard to earn the respect of the cannabis community in New York (and beyond)!
Photos and Images from past NY Harvest Festival & Freedom Fair's!
Our Sponsors
A short history of Damn Sam:
2024 will be the 27th annual NY Harvest Festival & Freedom Fair!
Started in 1995, it took us 29 years to make it 27, mostly all under prohibition! This event has a diverse, deep rooted and devoted following with more unique newcomers yearly.
Longest Running Cannabis Cup in North America!
In 1996, Peter Jennings's ABC World News Tonight came (with full news crew) to the 2nd NY Harvest Fest in search of interviews with growers. In 1996, not many growers wanted to go out on the limb for a news show. We needed to come up with something for them to film. We always had lots of growers and lots of cannabis, consequently and cleverly, the 1st ever, yearly, USA Cannabis Cup was born!
Past Damn Sam Events Include:
NYC 420 Celebration, The HempSplash Festivals, AT40 (The 40th Anniversary of the Acid Tests - production and promotion with the Kesey family and others, Las Vegas), The High Times WHEE Festival, Spring Planting Festivals, Drive-In Laser Shows (Yasgur Farm, Bethel, NY), Ed Rosenthal's Wonders of Cannabis (San Fran), Rock Against Racism Concerts (SUNY New Paltz), Salvation Army Toy Drives, and many local concerts to support rallies, lobby days and other political efforts from candidates' campaigns, press conferences, to the NYC Pot Parade concert stage.
Past Damn Sam Speakers & Entertainment Include:
Pete Seeger. Jack Herer, Ask Ed Rosenthal, George Clinton & the 420 Funk Mob, Richie Havens, Hamilton Morris, Immortal Technique, dead prez, Alex & Alison Grey, Rhoney Stanley, Steven and Ina Mae Gaskin, The Wailers, Cabinet, Bluestar Radiation, Melvin Seals & JGB, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Dead Milkmen, Levon Helm, Particle, High Times Cannabis Cup Band, Col. Bruce Hampton, Fishbone, Rev. Kenny Glassco, Judge James Grey, John Kadlecik, Dana Beal, Timothy Tyler, Ike Willis, Ed Mann, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Murphy's Law, The Persuasions, DJ Logic, The Real Radio Rahim, Frankie Bones, DANK, Queen Mother (wife of Baba Olatunji), Max Creek, Rev. Larry Ellis, ecoustic hookah, Moonalice, The David Nelson Band, Tony Vacca & World Rhythms with Massamba Diop, Garth Hudson & The Dharma Bums, Vassar Clements, Buddy Cage, Steve Hagar, Mayor Jason West, Grandpa Al, Dogs in a Pile,
Deep Banana Blackout and many, many more.
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