Virginia Pork Festival

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12/13/2022

12/01/2022

🚨Programming Update! 🚨📺🐷 Scott Mason’s Tarheel Traveler segment featuring Stevens Sausage will air on WRAL TV this Thursday, 12/1 at 5:55pm! ✳️Be sure to set a reminder to watch and also please like and share this post with friends and family!

09/30/2020

A lot of people are sharing a post from last year about a possible festival for 2020. The time has past. At this point, planning should’ve started in June of this year for an event in June of 2021.
A new board was formed and meetings held early in the year with great interest, but as with everyone, Covid stopped most everything in its tracks . At this point, there will not be a festival in 2021. We will definitely keep you informed if anything changes but it is unlikely there will be a future festival.

10/03/2019

So we held a public meeting tonight and we have great interest in volunteers in forming a new board of directors for a 2020 Festival! But, we are going to need more participation to help us move forward. We’re hosting another meeting at the Greensville Ruritan Club on Thursday October 17th at 6:00 PM.
Very important for anyone interested in helping form a board to attend this meeting. We need new and fresh ideas brought to the meeting!
Pass this along!

12/24/2018

Merry Christmas!

06/13/2018

Today would’ve been the day! The weather looks good right now! It’s not 95 degrees!!! We’re definitely missing you all!

02/22/2018

After 44 years, we have reluctantly decided that it is time to say goodbye to the Virginia Pork Festival. This has been a very painful decision to make, however, we would like to end this run on a positive note. This festival would never have existed without the support of hometown, Emporia and the Emporia/Greensville Ruritan Club, the County and all law-enforcement.

There are so many people that have been a part of the festival throughout the years, that it would be impossible to list them all and not miss someone.

To all the bands, especially Craig Woolard and the Embers, thanks for the many years of great entertainment that you brought to the festival.

Boars Head, Gunnoe’s , Stevens Sauage and Smithfield meats, you deserve applause and our taste buds thank you for the quality pork products throughout the years.

To the Sadler family, the Pecht family and Pecht Distributing, we truly appreciate your years of dedication and loyalty.

Our nonprofit organizations and other groups that prepared all of the pork dishes, we love you and we will truly miss each of you. The long hours of preparation and your dedication to this festival are not to be forgotten.

Last, but definitely not least, we will miss our attendees. You guys came from all over. We’ve even had people from Hawaii. We hope that you have enjoyed our hospitality as much as we enjoyed seeing you walk through those gates and there were a lot of you! We understand that this festival was a yearly tradition for many and we are truly humbled that you chose to spend your valuable time with us in Emporia.

It has become difficult for our group, of the last three years, to operate, raise adequate funds and sustain enough volunteers to carry on an event of this magnitude to make it what it deserves to be and should be, after the festival suffered many years before.

Always remember, we came together for a common cause, on a hot June afternoon, once a year, only for a few short hours, to eat pork dishes, drink some cold beverages, dance to some good music and be a part of the Virginia Pork Festival one more time. We did it together, all of us. So we are choosing to go out gracefully as the sun sets once more, on the pond in the middle of the festival grounds. We wave farewell to you and we thank you for the many years of good times and great memories.

The Virginia Pork Festival

02/20/2018

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12/13/2017

And Pork Festival Lovers too!

09/18/2017

Anybody out there already thinking about next years festival? June 13, 2018.

It's the second Wednesday in June.

Go ahead and save the date !

06/19/2017

06/19/2017

06/18/2017

Craig Woolard from the Embers ....getting a little Pork History 101 schooling!