This festival has been held annually on Father’s Day weekend since 1977 in downtown North Judson and the North Judson Park. It’s a celebration of mint, mint farming & mint production with several different mint-related activities.

The ever-popular Cooking with Mint contest will again be featured. Cooking With Mint cookbooks will also be available for sale. These contain recipes from past Cooking With Mint contestants. Mint oil and mint plants will also be provided by local mint farmers.

Other family-friendly activities include live entertainment, food concessions, craft vendors, a pedal tractor pull, and Frog Jumping Contest. There is a 5k run on Saturday and a parade scheduled on Sunday. This year’s Mint Festival King and Queen have been crowned, as well as the Little Miss and Mr. Mint members.

The 2022 Mint Festival King is Logan Radtke and the 2022 Mint Festival Queen is Rebecca Ratliff.

The North Judson Mint Festival was awarded “Business of the Year” for 2022 by the Starke County Chamber of Commerce. It has also been named the #1 Festival’ several times in the past.

Six different bands including Small Town will perform as well as a puppet show, magic show, and Silly Safari.

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