Stanthorpe resident Kerrie Stratford is the woman to beat… with a string of successful years and records in the Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival’s ‘longest continuous apple peel’ and ‘fastest apple peel’ competitions she is arguably the ‘best ever apple peeler on the Granite Belt’, Kerrie’s 6.1 metre Granny Smith peel holds the current…

Stanthorpe will again be hosting a regional competition for the Australian National Busking Championships™ in 2022, being staged on the first Saturday of the 10-day Stanthorpe Apple and Grape Harvest Festival. This event will be Stanthorpe’s fourth annual Australian Busking Championship South-East Queensland Regional Finals and it will be all happening on Saturday 26th February 2020.…

Many thanks to Bob Swaine for supplying these historical photos of previous festivals.