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Community Food & Farm Festival

Community Food & Farm Festival

May 3-4, 2008

Minnesota State Fairgrounds
Grandstand Building
1265 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul, MN

 


The Community Food and Farm Festival is an annual event that brings together sustainable, direct marketing producers with consumers in a way that celebrates this connection.

A joint effort of:

 

Land Stewardship Project
2200 Fourth St.
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
651-653-0618

Minnesota Food Association
14220-B Ostlund Trail North
Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047
651-433-3676

 

 

2007 Food & Farm Exhibitors


CSA Farms:

Driftless Organics
Easy Bean Farm
Feather Stone Fruit and Vegetables
Fresh Earth Farms
Harmony Valley Farm
May Farm
Philadelphia Community Farm
Ploughshare Farm
Rock Spring Farm
Webster Farm Organic
Women's Environmental Institute



Other Farms:
Anderson Farm
Cedar Summit Farm
Green Pastures Dairy
Lynn Brakke Organic Beef
Mystic Prairie Eco-Farm

Velasquez Family Coffee

Organizations:
Tillers International - Farm School
Minnesota Food Association
Land Stewardship Project
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture/Cornercopia - UM Student Organic Farm


Want to be an Exhibitor in 2008?
If you are interested in participating in this year's festival as an exhibitor, you can click here for a letter in pdf format that contains more information, and here for an application form in pdf format. The registration deadline is Feb. 22.

This year's Festival will again be held in conjunction with the Living Green Expo, a two-day event that provides Minnesotans with information, ideas, resources, products and motivation to live more sustainably.

During the past eight years, the Community Food and Farm Festival has evolved into one of the region's most popular venues for meeting farmers who are direct marketing various kinds of food. Farmers will be on hand to answer questions about the sustainable production methods they use to produce food that is safe and good for the environment. Learn about joining a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm or buying food directly through various other means, as well as what products are within driving distance of the metro area (meats, vegetables, dairy products, grains and more). Consumers can sample various items and sign up to purchase sustainably raised food right on the spot.

But the Living Green Expo isn’t just about food. Information and products for clean transportation, home energy efficiency, home remodeling, yard and garden care, and other purposes will be exhibited. Music, children’s activities, educational forums and food vendors will be a part of the Expo this year.

For more information about the Community Food and Farm Festival, contact the Land Stewardship Project’s White Bear Lake office at 651-653-0618.

Get involved in the Food and Farm Festival! We are seeking volunteers to assist with set-up and clean-up as well as volunteers to staff the LSP booth and Farm Festival areas.

Please contact LSP at 651-653-0618 if you are interested in helping out.

For more information on the Living Green Expo, go to www.livinggreenexpo.org.