Grab your fresh Jersey Peaches, grease your baking dishes, and go. Enter your Peach Pie (or cobbler, no other peach dish allowed) at any farmers market listed below. You could win a choice of overnight w/dinner for two in either Atlantic City or Cape May.
Professional chefs will judge your peach pie or cobbler at farmers markets listed below. They will select a finalist from each farmers market. Finalists will go on to compete for two grand prizes (one from south/central Jersey, one from north/west Jersey).
The Contest is open to any amateur baker and must be either a pie or a cobbler.
Contact your preferred farmers market (or visit their website) to register. Provide your name, city or town, phone # or email, & what you will be baking. Then show up with your entry on the day designated at your market of choice. Contest sites and email contacts are below:
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STATE AREA |
FARM MARKET/CONTACT |
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South Jersey |
July 18-Margate |
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North Jersey |
July 21-Riverview Farmers Market, Jersey City Heights Mory Thomas, director of Culinary Development at the Food Network, judge |
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South Jersey |
July 28-Gloucester 4-H Fair,Mullica Hill Chef Jim Malaby, blueplate restaurant, judge jls017@hotmail.com; jerseypeaches@verizon.net http://gloucester.njaes.rutgers.edu/fairfest |
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South Jersey: |
August 3-Collingswood Chef Mark Smith,Tortilla Press, judge lecipriani@aol.com www.Collingswoodfarmersmarket.com |
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Central Jersey |
Aug 4 -Terhune Orchard, Princeton info@terhuneorchards.com www.terhuneorchards.com |
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Central Jersey |
Aug 7-Woodbridge kelly.reidy@twp.woodbridge.nj.us www.twp.woodbridge.nj.us |
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Central Jersey |
Aug 11-Hunterdon Land Trust, Flemington Chef/owner Leslie McEachem, Angelica Kitchen, NYC, judge catherine@hunterdonlandtrust.org www.cpcchester.org |
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North Jersey |
Aug 11-Ramsey Pastry Chef Michael Volpe, chef/owner L’Arte della Pasticceria, Ramsey’s new authentic Italian café and bakery, judge amorfeti@aol.com; lorraine372002@yahoo.com www.ramseyfarmersmarket.org |
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South Jersey |
Aug 14-Westmont |
The Perfect Peach Pie contest is sponsored by the New Jersey Peach Promotion Council. For further information on Jersey peaches, visit www.jerseypeaches.com, Find jersey peaches on 
facebook.com/newjerseypeaches
