Green Bean Festival

The Green Bean Festival celebrates the nutrient rich heritage between green beans and the people of North Georgia. Green bean lovers and little bean sprouts will have bushels of fun at the 2014 Green Bean Festival held at the Union County Farmers Market in Blairsville, Georgia. Look for different varieties of green beans from heirloom pole beans to mountain white half runners and lots of other fresh produce.

The Green Bean Man welcomes you to a day full of arts & crafts, festival food, green bean beauty queens and kings, a square dance hoedown, green bean pizza eating contest, green bean recipe contest, home canning contest, a bike ride, a 5K run, canning plant tours, children's activities, live music, performances by the Green Bean Kazoo Band, and over 100 vendors including three dozen produce and plant producers! Join us for some Green Bean Stringing, Snapping, Looking, Cooking, and more! Have you BEAN to Blairsville? Fun for the Whole Family