Our Community
Partners

We are proud to be working with many partners in our community to bring you this wonderful family-friendly event. Some community partners include:

Revels North

Thetford Elementary School

Thetford Academy

First Congregational Church in Thetford

Wicked Awesome BBQ

Medieval Festival Sponsors

The Open Fields Medieval Festival is possible because of the support of our generous sponsors. Won't you consider sponsorship of this wonderful community event? To learn more about becoming a sponsor, please see the information at the bottom of this page.

Mascoma Bank: Mascoma Savings Bank is mutually owned and not for sale. With no shareholders to please, we are committed to remaining independent and to re-investing profits in our community. Our first priority has always been—and always will be—you, our customers. We are different than other banks and give you the security of a long-term relationship. We make sure you can pick up the phone and get things done locally with people who make decisions on your behalf. At Mascoma Savings Bank, we’re putting you first, today and tomorrow.

King Arthur Flour: King Arthur Flour is America’s oldest flour company and premier baking resource, offering ingredients, mixes, tools, recipes, education, and inspiration to bakers worldwide at kingarthurflour.com and at its headquarters in Norwich, Vermont.

Casella's Zero-Sort Recycling: Casella's Zero-Sort® Recycling makes it easier for our customers to recycle, promoting greater participation in recycling by eliminating their need to sort materials.

Magee Office Products: At Magee, we believe there is so much more to each order than office products. Like commitment, reliability, dedication, and the promise to offer you only the best in service, selection, and price. For over 60 years, we’ve been a family business, and we take each customer relationship very personally. That’s why there’s so much more riding on our delivery trucks. Our reputation, for instance. It’s all in the delivery.

Bushway Insurance: Bushway Insurance Agency has been in operation for twenty-eight years. We believe serving our clients is the most important aspect of our business. We take pride in our belief that the customer always comes first. This philosophy continues in our work today and into the future. Located in East Thetford, VT. (802) 785-4843 www.BushwayInsurance.com.

LadyHawk Holdings, LLC: Rental properties in southern Vermont.

Vermont Goat Milk Soap: All Natural – No Artificial Anything! For a pure and natural handmade soap with all the goodness of goat milk, you’ll love Vermont Goat Milk Soap. Handmade in small batches on our dairy farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, our soaps are made with simple, pure ingredients, like fresh goat milk and sustainable oils. We offer a variety of bars, from our classic round and square bars to molded shapes with beautiful designs.

Wells River Savings Bank: Your good neighbor bank, with branches in Wells River, Newbury, Bradford, Fairlee, and East Thetford.

Cabot Cheese: Cabot is owned by 1,100 farm families throughout New York & New England. We manage four plants in three states, employing over 1,000 people, who make the best dairy products on the planet. Award-winning cheeses made with love and pride in Cabot and Middlebury, Vermont and Chateaugay, NY. The best premium butter churned with care in West Springfield, Massachusetts. And in Cabot, we're also making light cheddars, flavored cheddars and rich Greek-Style Yogurt, cottage cheese and sour cream. Your purchases mean the world to our future.

Wicked Awesome BBQ: Wicked Awesome BBQ has been voted the best BBQ in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire. Now at our new location in White River Junction, Vermont, just of Sykes Avenue. Eat in, take out, and catering for events of all sizes.

Shire Beef: Beef you can feel good about. We manage our cattle in an innovative way that rebuilds and maintains soil health and activity, sequestering more carbon than we produce. In exchange for the soil's work, we receive fertile pasture on which to raise our herd, in turn giving our beef the unique and intense flavor you won’t find anywhere else. 100% grass fed and grass finished in Vershire, Vermont. Taste the difference of place.

Thank you, also, to the following businesses for their donations: Hannaford Supermarkets & Upper Valley Food Coop.

Become a Sponsor:

Unto You does Open Fields in Thetford, VT send Greetings and Salutations.

Good Master or Mistress:

It is hoped that Friends of the Thetford Community and those who would have their businesses heralded to our over Five Hundred annual Attendees will assist the Medieval Faire by their enjoyment thereof, in suitable garb, and by their Generous Gifts of Goodes and Coin that are sorely needed by Festival tailors, builders, minstrels, farmers, and cookes.

In particular, we be in need of Sponsors:

500 dollare donations earn ye the Eternal Friendship of the King and Queene, a listing, link and your logo on the VTMedFest.com website footer, presence on all manners of Faire publicity including posters and direct mail postcards, notice on the gate sponsor board on Festival day, and a complimentary boothe at said Faire for displaying your business promotional materials.
300 dollare donations earn ye the Respect of our Lords and Ladies, a listing, link and logo on the
VTMedFest.com website footer, presence on Faire publicity, and notice on the sponsor board.
150 dollare donations earn ye the Well Wishes of the Inhabitants of our Realm, a listing and link on the VTMedFest.com website, presence on Faire publicity, and notice on the sponsor board.
100 dollare donations earn ye a Kiss from Brunhilda the Cooke, a listing on the VTMedFest.com website
and notice on the gate sponsor board.

We hear wonderous words of your Great Generosity and do humbly beseech you to find whether it be possible to endow the Festival with your generous gift. If any knowledge of this Faire need be sent you, request it of my good mistress at Nellie.Pennington@OpenFields.org.

Your Humble and Most Grateful Servant,

Assistant Town Crier of Open Fields
Thetford Hill, Vermont

*Open Fields School is a 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.

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Our Generous Sponsors

Our Vermont Medieval Festival wouldn't be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Thank you! For a full list of sponsors and for more information on sponsorship, please visit our Sponsors page.