ChowderMonth this year crests with a free Bayfront Festival on Oct. 2 and 3, topping off a previous month of self-guided tasting and voting at restaurants. Right now the call is out for vendors to take part in the festival’s Vendor Village at the Taylor Avenue ball field in Beach Haven.

The two-day Bayfront Festival to welcome fall will close out ChowderMonth. The festival is not a tasting event, but will be filled with a juried vendor village, food for purchase, live music, and brews on tap.