Brenda Donovan took two first-place awards in the pie-tasting competition that was part of the festivities celebrating the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust’s 20th anniversary Sunday.

Donovan’s apple pie won “best looking pie,” while her Key Lime pie won “best tasting pie” in the cream and custard category.

The other winners in the pie contest, judged by Town Councilors Anne Swift-Kayatta, David Backer, Jack Roberts and Michael Mowles, were Sue Foley-Ferguson’s peace pear pie for best-tasting fruit pie and Natalie Charles’s Kentucky Derby pie for best-tasting chocolate pie. The contest drew 21 pies.

In the morning, the land trust celebration began with the town’s first ever triathlon. (See more coverage in the Sports section, on Page 11.) The race was followed by a harvest festival with a community barbecue, a farmer’s market featuring three of Cape’s local farmers, a large number of activities for children and music by the Muddy Marsh Ramblers.

The weather cooperated and residents of Cape Elizabeth turned out in the hundreds to support the organization. The turnout “couldn’t be better,” said Chris Franklin, executive director of the land trust. He estimated close to 400 people came to the Harvest Festival.

“To me, that’s a big tribute to our organization,” he said. “It feels good that the community is here to support us.”

Because it was their first event of this type, Franklin said the success of it relied a lot on the fact that there were so many local participants. The triathlon and Harvest Festival relied on the 125 volunteers who did everything, including directing parking, cooking burgers and reading to children.

Stacy Brenner of Turkey Hill Community Farm in Cape Elizabeth shows off her organic tomatoes to Susan Sandberg, a librarian at Thomas Memorial Library, at the harvest market Sunday.Seven-year-old Michael Mangravito holds a baby chicken from Turkey Hill Community Farm at the harvest market Sunday.Three-year-old Riley Franklin holds a baby turtle while at the educational table at the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust’s 20th anniversary Harvest Festival held Sunday at Gull Crest Fields.Land trust celebration draws hundredsSeven-year-old Lily Norris shows off her painted gourd at the Cape land trust’s Harvest Festival at Gull Crest Fields Sunday.Three-year-old Benjamin Payson tries to fly away with one of the large kites Northern Sky Toyz brought to the Cape land trust’s Harvest Festival Sunday.The Muddy Marsh Ramblers, a local bluegrass band, perform at the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust’s Harvest Festival at Gull Crest Fields Sunday.Town Councilor and pie judge, Jack Roberts, tastes a fruit pie in the best-pie tasting competition as part of the Cape land trust’s Harvest Festival Sunday.Town Councilor Michael Mowles inspects pieces of pie he will judge in the Cape land trust’s best-pie tasting competition at their Harvest Festival Sunday.Anne Swift-Kayatta, Town Council chairman and pie judge, judges pies in the fruit category at the best-pie tasting competition Sunday.Town Councilor and pie judge David Backer tastes pies at the Cape land trust’s best-pie tasting competition Sunday.