COMING SOON! The 2025 Cowichan Exhibition Official Catalogue, printed copies. See below for the online version.
Our 2025 Fall Fair’s theme is “Winged Wonders” based on the book “Bugs: A Day in the Life” – celebrating everything that flies – so think dragonflies, bees, ladybugs, grasshoppers, bats, moths, butterflies, – “let your imagination soar!”
Our 2025 Colour Challenge: Maroon, Sea Green, Sky Blue, and Silver Shimmer!
2025 Official Catalogue – Online version
2025 Fair Entry Forms & Individual Division Pages – NOW AVAILABLE!
ENTRY FORMS: These downloadable pdf forms can be filled out, printed and mailed OR dropped off to the office during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm from July 4 to September 3rd, 2025. Please note: Registration will not be accepted via the phone or email. Check each Division for entry fees – After September 3, entry fees double.
4-H Clubs Livestock Horses Hall
IMPORTANT DATES:
Entry Form Deadline: Wednesday, September 3 at 4:00 PM
Entry Drop-off Times at Mellor Hall:
August 11 to Sept 5 – Photography including Juniors, from 9:30 am to 4 pm.
Tuesday, September 9 – Fine Arts, Spinning, Weaving & Fibre Arts, Creative Stitchery, Knitting & Crochet, Quilts in the Barn, Sewing, including Juniors, from 10 am to 5:30 pm.
Wednesday, Sept 10 – Homegrown Cannabis and Hobbies & Crafts, including Juniors from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm.
Thursday, Sept 11 – 4-H, Eggs, Field Produce, Garden Produce, Fruit, Honey, Flowers, From the Kitchen, including Juniors from 10 am to 5:30 pm.
Entry Pickup: Sunday, September 14 from 4 to 6:30pm or during office hours (9:30am to 4pm) the following week (unclaimed entries may be donated or composted)
DIVISION PAGES
4-H – Div. 10 – Club members may also enter their 4-H animals in the OPEN CLASSES, and must complete the regular Livestock entry form and pay the regular entry fee.
Cattle, Beef – Div. 6 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class.
Cattle, Dairy – Div. 7 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class
Creative Stitchery – Div. 25 – NEW! Class 30: Canadiana: any stitchery project incorporating Canadian motifs – see page 51
Eggs – Div. 12 – NEW! Class 6 – Duck Eggs and Class 8 -“Winged Wonders Egg Shell Mosaic – see page 28
Field Produce – Div. 13 – NEW! Class 8 – Market Produce Collection – Open to both amateur and professional gardeners – see page 29
Fine Arts – Div. 21 – NEW! Class 13 – Comics, Cartoons & Caricature – see page 43
Flowers – Div. 18 – NEW! Class 42 – Gladiolus – 1 stem, any colour – see page 38
From the Kitchen – Div. 19 – NEW! Class 2 – Bread, sourdough – see page 40
Fruit – Div. 15 – Theme Challenge Class 10 – “Orchard Leftovers” – see page 34
Garden Produce – Div. 14 – NEW! Class 72 – “Our Family Garden” – see page 32
Goats, Registered Dairy – Div. 5 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class
Hobbies & Crafts – Div. 23 – NEW! – Class 14 – Diamond Dotz of similar product – large, from kit or original design – see page 46
Homegrown Cannabis – Div. 17 NEW! Class 5 – “Hybrid, Grown Indoors” and Class 6 – “Hybrid, Grown Outdoors ” – see page 36
Honey – Div. 16 – NEW! Class 14 – “Superhero Buzz “,our favourite Winged Wonder and garden pollinator! – see page 35
Horses, Light – Div. 9 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class . * Stabling is free. But all stalls MUST be left clean otherwise a $25 cleaning fee will be deducted from prize money.
Horses, Miniature – Div. 8 – Please note! Late entry fee for 2025 is $10 per class
Juniors (ages 5 to 17) – Div. 30 – NEW! – LEGO now has it own Section! – see page 65
Knitting & Crochet – Div. 26 – Theme Colour Challenge – knit a hat or toque with the flower design in at least 2 of this year’s colours – see page 54
Photography – Div. 22 – Special Division Award- London Drugs President’s Pick – three winners will be selected from all 1st place entries – see page 45
Quilts in the Barn – Div. 27 – Theme Challenge, Best of Show, Colour Challenge and People’s Choice Awards – see page 55
Sewing – Div. 28 – NEW! – Troll Brothers Quilt Shop Most Entries by One Exhibitor entering both Div. 27 and 28, including Class 8 in Sewing – see page 55
Spinning, Weaving & Fibre Arts – Div. 24 – NEW! – “Make Do!’ re-use, up-cycle..dig into your stash to create a new project without purchasing more fibre or threads – see page 48
