Boiled peanuts, food from vendors, arts and crafts, a parade, cloggers, bands, and tractor races for fast-pedaling kids and slow-driving adults return to downtown Brooklet Saturday, Sept. 19. The 37th annual Brooklet Peanut Festival offers up this heaping helping of family fun beginning with the parade at 10 a.m.
Free, live entertainment at the festival site around the Randy Newman Community Center between East Lee and Railroad streets cranks up after the parade.
Meanwhile, the tractor races are slated to roll at noon on Warnock Street and shortly thereafter. Sign-up opportunity begins at 11:30 a.m. for the Kiddie Pedal Tractor Race, sponsored by AgSouth Farm Credit and open to children ages 4 to 7, with tractors provided for kids to compete by age group.
The Slow Tractor Race, on Warnock Street, begins immediately after the kiddie race ends.
The entertainment schedule, found at brookletpeanutfestival.com, slates the State Prison Cloggers for 11 a.m., followed by the Southeast Bulloch High School Band at 11:30, the 3rd Infantry Division Band from Fort Stewart at noon, the Pachitla Creek Pickers at 12:30 p.m., Rockin Randall at 1:30 p.m., Jazmine Wilson at 3 p.m., Brickhouse Live at 3:30, Cliff Proctor at 4:30 p.m. and the Good Time Dancers at 4:30 p.m.
Popular local band The Ripleys will play from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. to conclude the festival.
As always, the event is organized by the Brooklet Community Development Association, a group of local volunteers, and with the support of many local businesses as sponsors.
2026 food vendor list
- Auntie's Lemonade
- Big Dog Snow Cones
- Fun Time Foods
- Sweet Treats
- Bearded Pig
- Caribbean Feast
- Molly's Fish and Chips
- Coastal Kettlecorn
- Sunrise Produce
- 5R Concessions
- Frencheese
- Saucy Shrimp
- Metter Meats
- Jerusalem Church
- Off the Block Shave Ice
- 850 Wild Thing Concessions
- Sweet Bliss Lemonade
- Grillin Like a Villain
- S and L Treats and More
- Mi Tierra