Fermentation Fest is a 10-day celebration of farming, food, and art in Reedsburg, and

Sauk County, Wisconsin Sauk County is a county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,763. Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo. The county was created in 1840 from Wisconsin Territory ...

. It was established in 2010 based on a

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travelling exhibit titled "Key Ingredients: America by Food" and includes classes, the Farm/Art DTour, which is a self-guided driving tour on 50 miles of Wisconsin backroads including signposts, art installations, market stands and live performances. Cheesemakers, beekeepers, composters, picklers, organic farmers, writers, and sculptors take part. There are hay bale sculptures.Gayle Worlan
Cultures will converge at Fermentation Fest
October 03, 2011 Capital Newspapers Venues involved include the historic

Beastro & Barley Beastro & Barley, formerly Touchdown Tavern, Town Club Bar or Roper's City Hotel, is a restaurant and bar in a historic hotel building in the Second Empire style at 125 East Main Street in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States. The two-storey red br ...

, Wormfarm Institute, and Harvest Park in Reedsburg, which features Ruminant, the Grand Masticator. It is funded with

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and ArtPlace grant money, as well as funding from

Sauk County Sauk County is a county in Wisconsin. It is named after a large village of the Sauk people. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,763. Its county seat and largest city is Baraboo. The county was created in 1840 from Wisconsin Territory a ...

's tourism department, and the State of Wisconsin's tourism department. which is touting the event throughout the Midwest. The event is run in conjunction with Sauk County's long-standing Fall Art Tour of art gallery exhibitions and the

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's seven-mile Autumn Color Railroad Tour in the Baraboo Hills.

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