2025 California Nut Festival

What is the California Nut Festival?

Each year, this crowd-pleasing festival showcases plentiful gourmet food offerings, always-popular wine and beer sampling, nut-inspired cooking demonstrations, live musical entertainment on two outdoor stages, a wonderful art show featuring talented local artists and much more. The event is presented by the Patrick Ranch Museum and sponsored by Tri Counties Bank branch in Durham, PG&E, California Olive Ranch, RUSH Personnel Services, Farmers' Circle members and involved media partners.

The California Nut Festival began as a series of events including a blossom tour, spelling bee, book club and chef demonstrations that took place over the course of a two week period, but lacked a single event that brought consumers and local farms together in a meaningful way.

The new California Nut Festival (CNF) is the vision of a group of community volunteers who wanted to bring an upscale food and wine event to the North Valley to celebrate the heritage and provide much needed fundraising to the Patrick Ranch Museum. Susan Donohue, Coordinator states, “We are working to increase awareness and consumption of our local products in a fun and festive way. We are also working to foster a positive perception about agriculture.”