About Top The Tater Days
HOMETOWN PRIDE. FAMILY FUN.
Top the Tater Days is the annual community festival for Farmington, Minnesota. Top the Tater Days (formerly known as Dew Days), highlights the unique qualities of our community to visitors and residents in order to promote the city and surrounding townships as an excellent community for families and businesses. The festival provides a variety of activities for all ages by sharing local and regional music and arts, history culture and the natural surroundings of Farmington in an entertaining atmosphere.
Organized by the Farmington Area Enhancement Group, which is a volunteer-led, sponsorship-based organization committed to promoting the community of Farmington by highlighting our quality of life through a variety of family-oriented fun-filled experiences.
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Our Vision Is To:
- Create opportunities for businesses and non-profit organizations to support the community, thereby helping develop the growth and vitality of the Farmington Community and surrounding areas.
- Be recognized as a premier community celebration
- Be respected as a vital civic event that provides significant economic benefits throughout the Farmington community and beyond
- Create a diversified portfolio of quality events and programs that is financially sustainable
Core Values:
- Strive for excellence in everything we do
- Respect the history and heritage of the Top the Tater Days celebration, the Farmington Community, and the surrounding townships
- Practice teamwork with passion
- Build open and honest relationships
- Pursue growth and learning
- Promote volunteerism and community support
- Demonstrate environmentally sound practices
- Embrace and deliver change
- Communicate clear and consistent information
- Provide an inclusive atmosphere for all who attend
Want to know the history of our name?
The citizens of Farmington drink more Mountain Dew per capita than any other city announces Pepsi Cola in 1979.
A city festival was planned to celebrate and the citizens of Farmington have continued to support a festival for the past 44 years. Life changes and so did the festival, from its name, to its location, to its sponsors and the activities. The one thing that has not changed is the citizens of Farmington, who love to celebrate each summer.
At the 125th city celebration in 1997 Mountain Dew Days was renamed to "Founder's Days". Following the Founder's Day renaming the festival was again renamed and shortened to “Dew Days”.
In 2025, a new partnership was formed with Kemps as a naming sponsor for the festival. Kemps has been a Farmington business for almost 100 years and is owned and operated by a cohort of family dairy farms. Kemp's desire to invest in Farmington and to celebrate the fact that all the Top the Tater in the country is made right here in Farmington led to a multi-year partnership to be the naming sponsor - and now Dew Days will be known as Top the Tater Days!