Festival Vendors
At the Irvine Mountain Mushroom Festival, we are proud to be able to offer a variety of ways for vendors, makers, and community members to participate in our event!
Vendors at our festival go through a juried process to be accepted. This creates an environment where the quality, originality, and craftsmanship of our festival is unmatched!
Festival Vendor Maps
Our festival takes place in Downtown Irvine, Kentucky, located in beautiful Estill County. You can view our festival and vendor maps at the images here.
Applications for all Vendors are closed for 2025! Thank you for your interest and we hope to see you at the Festival!
Arts & Crafts Booths
All work in the arts and crafts booths must be original creations made by hand. No kits are allowed. Demonstrations are encouraged. All applicants need to include three photographs of items you plan to sell with your application. These photos facilitate our jury process. Those who are Kentucky Crafted, Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, or Appalachian Artisan Center members will be accepted until the quota for a medium is filled. Exhibitors MUST participate on both days of the festival to be in the arts and crafts area.
Non Arts & Crafts Booths
A variety of booths abound in the non-arts & crafts area and are sure to be of interest to all ages. Check them out on Broadway. They include educational, health related, non-profit groups, games, and specialty foods such as KY Proud products and baked goods. Children and youth will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities. Free items will be given away at some booths. Some booths will be providing services directly to our festival visitors such as free water, diaper changing station, and free samples.
All applicants selling items need to include three photographs of items with your application. Booths will be accepted until the quota is filled and jury process met. Direct sales and commercial booths are not accepted.
Food Court Booths
Bring an appetite with you to the festival! There won’t be any excuse for being hungry with plenty of choices from which to choose. The variety will showcase favorites such as funnel cakes, kettle corn, and blooming’ onions to stick to your ribs food to dessert possibilities to satisfy your sweet tooth. Italian ice and fresh lemonade will be refreshing to try. Check out all the other choices at the festival too including KY Proud products.
Sit and rest at the picnic tables before getting back to see all the many activities going on at the festival. The food court will be set up at 142 Broadway, Irvine. All food vendors are inspected by the local Health Department and issued a food permit before opening.
The Food and Drug Administration’s Food Code does not allow wild mushrooms such as morels to be sold at the food court unless they come from an approved source.
KY Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Vendors
The KY Agate, Gem, Mineral, & Fossil Show will feature mineral specimen sales, fossil sales, petrified wood, kids grab bags, rock cutting saw, kids gem dig mine, and jewelry showing art from rocks and minerals. Much of the jewelry includes skills of the crafter from wire wrapping, silversmithing, faceting, to carving. Lapidary skills of the vendors show how slabs have been cut from rock, shaped into polished cabochons, and other stone-working skills. Agates will be for sale in several forms from slabs to jewelry revealing the hidden beauty. Enter at the back of the building. Admission is free.
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