The Philly Farm & Food Fest celebrates the most delicious aspects of our local food system. One part of the mission of the Fest is to engage, inspire and educate eaters by spotlighting local, sustainably minded food producers and their products. The other is to connect these farmers, artisans and distributors with wholesale buyers like chefs, restaurateurs and grocers, enabling them to sell more products to a wider audience, grow their businesses and stay on their land.
Mark your calendars: the Philly Farm & Food Fest will be back on April 8, 2017, and this time around, the event planning team reached out to a group of longtime exhibitors to formally involve them in the planning process. By creating an advisory committee made up of longtime exhibitors who can offer expert advice, the planning committee is confident that they will be able to make the 2017 event the best yet for everyone who attends.
“We’ve been getting ad hoc advice and feedback from our exhibitors for many years, because they’re our constituents for so many of our programs,” said Ann Karlen, executive director of Fair Food. Along with Kitchen Table Consultants, nonprofit organization Fair Food co-produces the festival each year. “There’s always been open communication about how the event works for each of them. But this year, we really wanted to formalize that early in the planning process.”
PA Eats is pleased to announce that our founder and owner, Mary Bigham, is part of the Philly Farm & Food Fest all-star advisory team. Check out the other members of the advisory committee on the Philly Farm & Food Fest website.
Interested in exhibiting at or attending the Philly Farm & Food Fest? Sign-ups and ticket sales begin on Thursday, December 1. To be kept in the loop about all things Philly Farm & Food Fest, sign-up for the newsletter, visit the website or follow along on Facebook.
- Photos: Ed Williams
