The Ocracoke community will celebrate the summer’s fig bounty at the annual Fig Festival with special guest chef Dean Neff

This free, family-friendly event takes place August 1-2, 2025 on Ocracoke Island

Ocracoke Fig Festival

The 11th annual Fig Festival will take place at the Berkley Barn and Manor on Ocracoke Island. The festival features live music, traditional Ocracoke square dancing, children’s crafts, talks by local fig experts, and vendor booths offering fig preserves, fig cakes, fig trees, local cookbooks, and other fig-tastic items. The showpiece of the Fig Festival is the Fig Cake Bake-Off, where bakers are invited to submit entries in one of more of three categories: Traditional, Innovative, and Seafood, and young bakers are encouraged to enter the Youth category. Chef Dean i

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