Harvest Home Festival & 5K Farm Run

Harvest Home Festival & 5K Farm Run is held in Grafton, Massachusetts, on November 1, 2026. There is one running format, a 5K, and it starts late by road-race standards, at 11:00 a.m., alongside the festival the event is named for.

A late-morning start changes how you prepare. Eat a normal breakfast about three hours out, keep sipping fluids, and give yourself a longer warm-up than you would at dawn, because you will have been on your feet a while by the time the gun goes. The distance suits a first race, since 3.1 miles is manageable off six weeks of run-walk training, and it is just as useful to experienced runners as a short, sharp effort inside a build toward a spring half marathon.