SEQUIM — The Incredible Edible Festival has been postponed until further notice.
The festival was originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Sequim unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Olympic Peninsula.
“We had fewer-than-anticipated vendors,” Shelli Robb-Kahler, Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce executive director, said of the chamber board’s decision Friday afternoon.
Inaugural event
The inaugural event in 2010 drew 34 vendors and about 500 festival-goers.
This year, only about half of the vendors signed up, Robb-Kahler said, because they had other commitments, such as catering jobs.
The chamber board was to meet Tuesday to consider rescheduling the festival early next year.
“We don’t want to delay it, but we had to,” Robb-Kahler said, adding that she alerted the vendors that had signed up about the decision to postpone.
Last year’s inaugural festival was seen as a success, Robb-Kahler said.
The event this year was expected to offer a variety of activities including food, classes, demonstrations, vendor exhibits and contests.
Up to 12 volunteers on a chamber board committee were involved in planning the event.
The theme of last year’s event was “Harvest to Home.”
The festival focused on food, everything from meals and goodies to gifts and decorating, as well as packaging and shipping gifts.
A focus on neighborhoods, farmers markets and storefronts was incorporated into the event.