MILLBROOK ZUCCHINI FESTIVAL: Photo Gallery

2024 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

This year we added a bit of pomp, with Alan signalling the start of each race on his bugle.

Carving table mayhem.

Of course, it couldn't happen without all of our volunteers. Here Craig and Beryl step in to help out at the carving tables (Beryl's damaged wrist not withstanding!)

The boat races are always the highlight!

And always lots of hardware to be handed out at the Awards Ceremony...

A few surprise celebrity appearances. The Tin Man...

And the Scarecrow, to be badly pummelled by flying monkeys a bit later.

Senior prize-winning cake. Yum!

And the Junior cupcakes, equally yummy.

The Courgettes get ready to share some music.

And the slingshot.

Ben Wallace takes home the Flying Monkey Giant Slingshot prize for the junior category with two successive hits!

And Branwyn Lyttle secures the Senior trophy in the face of stiff opposition.

2017 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

Joseph Keast was a big time winner this year, taking home gold for the Zucchini Boat Races, the Cooking Contest (Junior) with a killer chocolate cake and found all 15 items in the Canada 150 Wild Goose Chase Scavenger Hunt. Go Joseph!

And John De Maria destroyed the 150 Zucchini Moose with the Giant Zucchini Slingshot (seen here cobbled back together for others to try to do the same sort of damage.)

2016 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

This year's crop, courtesy once again of Farmers Dell

Cellar Door entertains our Zukeneers

The loosely interpreted list for this year's scavenger hunt

Bill Slavin and piper Tim Armour

And it's off!

In the creek

Bridge to the island

Dunk tank! (Yes, this child has a head...)

Cellar Door - such good music!

Taylor, face painter extraordinaire!

The carving table

Marion at this year's poetry corner

The Memorial 150th Annual Zucchini Moose slingshot target - after it has taken a few hits!

And the slingshot...

2016 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

Zukémons! From left to right: Pokechini, Zukichu, Squashalot and Corgeotta.
The hunt was on for these four elusive critters.

Carving table mayhem

The Giant Slingshot targets

Target

Carving Table

The dunk tank

Great music by Relic's Boat

Taylor applies some masterful strokes

Marion and Murielle keep everyone organized at the registration table

What would the festival be without pipers? Nick Lasch and his student Livia Muir pipe the zucchinis up to the pond.

The Lions Club guys kept us all fed.

Because of a dry summer the creek was shallow and treacherous for this year's race.

The trebuchet was once again in action across the creek.

And our very brave trebuchet target suiting up!

A diminishing pile of zucchini donated by Farmers Dell of Campbellcroft.

Possibly the best zucchini sculpture ever - Zukele! by Elizabeth Slavin

Our zucchini boat catchers snatch a bit of love between heats.

One of the many beautiful boats that crossed the finish line - some like this little beauty in one piece!!

And they're off!

Biggest Zuke weigh in

Swirling down the creek

Jo (with Amelia's help) receive their baking contest prize.

The always busy carving table.

Shelley eyeballs the entries for the best-decorated.

2015 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

Joe Longo with his monster-sized vegetables. Not shown is his grandson's prize-winning 20 lb. zucchini!

Of course it is all about the boats, and here is two year old Amelia's with three generations backing it.

What is this man doing?? (The backstop for the boat races after the finish line is passed.)

Ted Hodson of Millbrook built us a zucchini trebuchet (a medieval siege engine) this year.

Here it is in action against invading zombies.

Here are the zombies close up. They were also the target of this year's slingshot…

And looked like this when the slingshotters were done with them! Millbrook zombie-safe for another year!

2014 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

2014 Poet Laureate Mark Hamel. You can readMark's and other zucchini poems here, at the poetry page.

Biggest Zuke runner up (and happy to be a contender!) Celia Hunter

Boat race winners

Carving contest winner

Carving table frenzy

Dunked!!

Flotilla

Queen of zuke cooking

Senior carving winner Mia Melo with her Zucchini Rocket Ship

The giant"Moon Launch" slingshot

Putting the moon in the cross hairs

Spill over from the carving table

Taylor works her magic!

Testing the boats

Relic's Boat with their all-zucchini repertoire

The bridge to the island

The race course

This year's swag

2012 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

A perfect day. Lyell Shields enters his gold winning Zucchini Pineapple Pecan Cake while an onlooker admires the hardware.

Cooking judge Evelyn Raab gobbles down a highly nutritious and culinary marvel of a hamburger (non-zucchini).

A beautiful day at the carving tables by Baxter Creek.

Creating the perfect boat.

Anticipating the next heat of the boat races.

Best decorated boat by Lily Pallet.

Joe Longo retains his crown as grower of the largest zucchini. This year: 20.2 lbs.

Robert Beda, Junior Poet Laureate for 2012. You can read Robert's and other zucchini poems here, at the poetry page.

Poet Laureate for 2012, Jim Slavin. You can read Jim's and other zucchini poems here, at the poetry page.
Jim's came written on the back of a napkin.

Zucchini house band Blind Dog George once more turns up the heat.

And of course… the boat races!

2011 Millbrook Zucchini Festival

Avery Morris, 2011-12 Poet Laureate. ( We had no adult poem entries in 2011, but Avery's was considered good enough to win this prestigious recognition! You can read it and other zucchini poetry here.)