Produce Competitions
Grower, maker, artist, or gardening enthusiast? Show off your skills in our Produce Competitions!
Think you’ve got the best vegetables, fruits, sauces, or preserves? Or perhaps the biggest, strangest, or most artistic creation inspired by heirloom produce? The Tasmanian Heirloom Festival is your chance to shine!
Our produce competitions celebrate excellence in homegrown produce and creativity. From perfectly ripened vegetables to unique sculptures, paintings, or photos that embrace the heirloom theme — if it stands out, we want to see it!
We’ve updated our competition categories this year to be even more inclusive, celebrating the incredible diversity of everything on the heritage/heirloom spectrum, grown by our passionate community. With so many unique shapes, colours, and flavours, we want to recognise them all!
New for 2026 is our Largest Pumpkin Category - we gave out dozens of Dill’s Atlantic Giant Pumpkin seedlings to both amateur and professional gardeners alike in October of 2025, and we can’t wait to see the results!
Produce Competition Categories
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Category A: Best Garlic
Category B: Best Allium (eg, onion, shallot, leek, elephant garlic)
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Category C: Best Tomato
Category D: Best Fruiting Crop (eg, capsicum, chilli, eggplant)
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Category E: Best Potato / Tuber (eg, potato, sweet potato, yam, oca)
Category F: Best Cucurbit (eg, pumpkin, melon, squash, cucumber)
Category G: Best Root Vegetable (eg, beetroot, carrot, parsnip, turnip)
Category H: Largest Pumpkin (by weight)
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Category I: Best Heritage Apple
Category J: Best Heritage Pear
Category K: Best Perennial / Unusual Edible Plant (eg, rhubarb, asparagus, artichoke, perennial greens)
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Category L: Preserve / Pickle (chutney, relish, jam, fermented produce)
Category M: Sauce / Paste / Passata
Category N: Oil / Vinegar / Dried Produce (infused oils, vinegars, powders, dried produce)
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Category O: The Biggest / Weirdest / Ugliest Vegetable or Fruit You Have Grown!
Category P: Basket / Display (minimum four different types of vegetables and/or fruit)
Category Q: Best Heirloom Art (painting, sculpture, photo, or any other medium you use)
Sub-Category 1: Age 11 years and under
Sub-Category 2: Age 12 years and older
How do you enter?
Read the Conditions of Entry and Judging Guidelines.
Download the Entry Form, print & complete.
Make sure your entries are submitted to the Information Tent on Festival Day by 10am for judging!
