JOIN US! for a fun and unique fall event on October 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Probstfield Farm Harvest Festival. Sample soups and chilis prepared by home chefs, or make one to share with others, just as Catherine Probstfield did more than a century before!

Buy tickets

Tasting tickets can be purchased at the event for $10, ages 12+.

Home chefs who prepare a soup or chili and enter in it the cook-off receive one free admission ticket.

Prepare an entry

Enter your best chili or soup into the cook-off! No cost to enter. Limited to first 12 entries. Winners will be announced during the event. Register using our online form by October 1st. Let’s keep food safety at the top of our minds–please read the full rules and regulations before registering.

Rules & Regulations for all contest entries

Online registration form for all entries

Connecting to history

The Probstfield farmstead was a well-known stopping point along the Red River during the early days of European settlement in the Fargo-Moorhead region, and Catherine Probstfield was well-practiced in preparing meals for travelers. The farmhouse at Probstfield Farm is today the oldest known standing farmhouse of that era on the American side of the border (dating to 1868). R.M. Probstfield would’ve been known to steamer captains traveling the river. The Probstfields were among the people who cut firewood to supply the boilers of the steamers that would travel northward on the Red River. Early navigation through the Fargo/Moorhead shallows was treacherous, even after dredging. Steamers could not fully load until they had passed northward out of the shallower parts of the river. Once past the shallows of Fargo/Moorhead, the steamers would stop at the farms along the river like the Probstfields’ (Probstfield’s Landing) which had firewood to sell. Today the road that runs through the farm is called Oakport Road for that very reason. It is also known that the Red River Oxcart trail passed very close to the Probstfield home.