Where to Find Figs

Press Release
Winner: People's Choice Fig Festival Photo Contest
Winner: People's Choice Fig Festival Photo Contest
Trudy Austin

Celebrate the Ocracoke fig harvest by dining and shopping!

There are many ways to enjoy Ocracoke’s favorite fresh local fruit all around the village in shops and restaurants.

Figs on the Menu! (Savory & Sweet)

*Ocracoke Coffee Shop: Fig scones, Fig cake, Fig muffins, Fig Bread, and Fig cream cheese (for your favorite bagel!)

*Ocracoke Oyster Company: Fig-smoked BBQ, Fig & scallion vinaigrette

*Fig Tree Deli/Sweet Tooth: Fig cake

*Flying Melon CaféSautéed Ocracoke Figs appetizer with prosciutto, rum-whipped goat cheese, arugula, & balsamic reduction; Herb-marinated pork tenderloin with Ocracoke Fig & port sauce entrée; Gooey Ocracoke Fig bars with whipped cream

*Back Porch Market: Figs & prosciutto appetizer, mini Fig cakes, Fig bars, Figgy Fizz drink mix

*Helios’ Hideaway: Fig balsamic vinaigrette and pizza with marinara/balsamic sauce, mozzarella and gorgonzola cheese, red onion, spinach, pancetta, & fresh local Figs

*1718 Brewery: Notorious F.I.G. beer

*Magic Bean Coffee Bazaar: Hot or iced lemon honey Fig latte, ginger Fig & cinnamon latte, iced Fig cake latte, green tea with Fig & hibiscus, black tea with Fig & cherries (also Notorious F.I.G. t-shirts)

Pony Island Restaurant: French toast with local Fig preserves

Figs to Take Home!

Baby Fig Tree making figs in its first year
Baby Fig Tree making figs in its first year
Mary McKnight

Local fig preserves and/or other figiliciousness are available at these locations:

*OPS Museum Gift Shop: Fig preserves & many fig-themed gifts; online/phone orders only

*Village Craftsmen: Fig preserves, Leaf Peeper fig tea, also: free Fig cake on Fridays at 11am

*Zillie’s Island Pantry: Fig preserves; “No pickum the figums” signs & t-shirts

*Ocracoke Variety Store: Fig preserves; Trudy & John’s fig BBQ sauce

*Produce by Celeste: Fresh figs! Saturdays 9-2 by Native Seafood

*Moonraker Tea Shop: Fig Cherry and Fig Berry loose leaf teas

*Sea Break: Fig soaps made in Buxton, NC; beeswax & Fig candles made on Ocracoke

Learn to Cook Figs!

Local cookbooks with fig recipes are available at these locations: 

*Books to Be Red

*OPS Museum Gift Shop (online/phone orders only)

*Ocracoke Variety Store

*Island Ragpicker

Plant a Tree!

2020 Fig Festival tees in white (v-neck), baby blue, and silver gray. We also have ice blue v-necks.
2020 Fig Festival tees in white (v-neck), baby blue, and silver gray. We also have ice blue v-necks.

Fig trees are available for your garden at: 

*Ocracoke Garden Center

*Trudy Austin & John Simpson 252-921-0102

Fig Festival Merchandise 

T-shirts, tote bags, and raffle tickets! If you are on the island, contact Sundae at 252-921-0283 or ocracokefigfestival@gmail.com to purchase. Off-island mail orders, please email info@ocracokepreservation.org

 

 

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