South Windsor Strawberry Festival — Local services in South Windsor

Ok, saw this event online and was super excited and it looked like a lot of fun. I researched beforehand and it said it's cash only. Ok, no problem. The craft vendors were great. However - to buy from the food vendors, you have to cost purchase paper tickets (1 ticket = $1) and then use the tickets to buy your food. I'm not sure if it's for safety purposes or a way to make you spend more, but it just seemed so chaotic and ridiculous. They have a table/ tent for you to buy the tickets, with a big menu board for how many tickets per each vendor's food item you want to get. So you can either make a rough estimate and commit to spending that much at the festival and waste the rest, OR you have to calculate exactly how much you plan on spending and buy just that many tickets. Also it was super crowded so people kept blocking the big menu board sign. If you aren't sure what you'll want to eat, i do not recommend this because it just seems like a ploy to get you to spend more money. Would much rather go to any other festival, even if it's cash only, where i can actually get change or change my mind about what i want to...

A wonderful community event that allowed thousands to enjoy each others company and make new friends. A huge undertaking by the local Republican town committee and as a life long town resident I am so proud we have people of this caliber that volunteer. I took a ride very early Sunday morning to see if there might be any work left that I could help with and the entire park was spotless as if the event never took place. These are people that respect our town and know how to get...

Had a great time at the South Windsor Strawberry Festival. It was a family event to socialize and the opportunity to meet and support many small businesses locally based. There was lots of beautiful crafts on sale and of course tons of...