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Thousands Attend Jay Peanut Festival
October 7, 2012
The annual Jay Peanut Festival attracted thousands to the Gabbert Farm Saturday and Sunday.
For more than 20 years, The Jay Peanut Festival at the Gabbert Farm has been a fall tradition on the Gulf Coast, showcasing the history, agriculture, food and fun of Santa Rosa County. What started as a chance for local kids and farmers to show off their best of the season has become an annual event covering 15 acres and drawing about 70,000 people to the Gabbert farm over two days.
The event included tours of the 1930s Farm Museum, food booths, dozens of arts and crafts vendors, pony rides, games and fun. The Jay Peanut Festival was also a chance to try all varieties of peanuts – boiled, green, fried, candied and more.
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This year was my first time attending this awesome, family oriented, and fun festival. My niece was one of the baton twirlers, both fire and regular of the Santa Rosa/Escambia Twirlers. Also, my wonderful ex, David Norris, who had the privelige of being Jay’s UPS delivery person for about 3 years encouraged our adult daughter and myself to attend before he knew our niece would be performing. He truly misses his old route, and “fell in love” with all the people in the commnunity and it was great to see him mingle with the people he got to know over the years and introduce us to many he served at the Festival. We had so much fun, and Dave told us about the history of the Festival and the Gabbert Farm, etc. We all truly enjoyed the museum, the food, the people and we will most definitely attend the next Festival. Afterwards, he took us to a Corn Maze and the family/children friendly activities there was just so much fun and I can’t wait to go back! I raved about it at work the following Monday. I thank all the persons involved for everything they did for making this such a wonderful and endearing experience and gave us a much more appreciation for our local farmers. May God Bless you all!