[ONE MORE WEEK] StILL Time to Enter Our 12th Annual Peach Pie Contest
Announcing the 12th Annual Riverview Farmers Market Peach Pie Contest and Festival on August 3, 2025. Enter today or sign up to volunteer!
Riverview Farmers Market is excited to announce the 12th Annual Peach Pie Contest & Festival will take place on Sunday, August 3rd (NEW DATE due to weather concerns). We welcome the public to enter into the contest, which will be judged by local chefs. After judging, the three top winners will receive gift baskets full of prizes from Market Vendors and Local Businesses. The prize baskets total *hundreds* of dollars worth of merchandise and gift certificates.
Our festival will also include:
- Live music by Hrlm (10:30 am) and SunnyBoyy (12:30 pm) Music bands subject to change
- A Bubble performance by OMG Bubbles
- Face Painting provided by Holly Mess
- Peach-themed temporary Tattoos
- Free samples of the peach pies (once the judges have gotten to do their tasting!)
- And more fun things!
All of the above entertainment is provided for FREE to the public, and paid for by the Riverview Farmers Market with support from our Grantors, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Please join us on Sunday, Auguts 3rd, from 10 AM to 2PM at Riverview Fisk Park for a peachy-good time. Here’s our Facebook event posting if you’d like to follow along.
CALLING ALL BAKERS! Enter the Contest
If you’re an amateur baker and want to join in the fun, please fill out this registration form here to enter the contest. You’ll need to bring your pie to the market somewhere between 10:30 am and 12 noon on the day of the Contest. We have 4 judges pulled from the Jersey City community, well-known chefs and other local celebrities. Each pie will be brought to the judges and they’ll rate the pies on taste, crust, filling, appearance and creativity.
Once the pies have been viewed and tasted by the judges, we’ll cut up the remainder of the pies and hand samples out to the public. It’s a traditional part of our peach pie contest, and our patrons love it! We are grateful to our bakers for being so generous with their baked goods.
We’ll have prizes for the top 3 contestants. The prizes each year total >$850 in merchandise and gift certificates across three baskets (typically $500+ for first place, >$250 for second place and >$100 for third place). We are grateful to our vendors, our sponsors and our partners in the area for donating such amazing basket stuffers. Winners also get featured on the market’s social media pages.
VOLUNteer with Us for The PEach Pie Contest & Festival
Not a baker but still want to participate and contribute? Great! We are also seeking volunteers for the Peach Pie Contest day. Our volunteers help us with set up, break down and the best part: handing out free samples of peach pie to the public. If interested in being a volunteer, please sign up via this form here. Our volunteers get first dibs on pie samples and the gratitude of the market. We hope you’ll join us!
We hope to see you on August 3rd. See our “Getting Here” page for directions. And we encourage you to follow the Market on Instagram and Facebook for the latest on all of our events!
This program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the Department of State, and administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs/Tourism Development, Craig Guy, Hudson County Executive & the Hudson County Board of County Commissioners.
