07/19/2025
This inaugural event honors nature and a vegan lifestyle, and is sponsored by Friends with the Forest. Promoting health, compassion, and regeneration, this festival features art, educational workshops, tasty and nutritious food, live music and other festival-oriented activities. Proceeds benefit an upcoming nature center/sanctuary. Great Smoky Mountain » Event Park, 1130 Hyatt Creek Rd.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; $5 or more donations appreciated; www.friendswiththeforest.com