ChiEXPO2011

Good Food Festival 

 

Good Food,

Good Know-How,

Good Fun   

Saturday, March 19, UIC Forum 

For the last six years, the Good Food Festival at the FamilyFarmed EXPO has been the leading gathering place for people in the Midwest who care about local and sustainable food.  

 

This year, we invite you to join us for the best food-focused workshops at any conference in the Midwest. (The best price, by far, we might add!) You will find amazing speakers talking about topics such as Vertical Farming, Backyard Chickens, Canning and Preserving Food, The Buzz on Bees, Being a Conscious Carnivore, Gardening in Small Spaces, and more! Click here to see the full schedule and be sure not to miss Sally Fallon Morell's workshop!  In addition, our chef demos feature an amazing lineup including Stephanie Izard, Paul Virant, Bill Kim, and more.  An added feature of this year's demos is that they each include two chefs paired with a local food farmer. So fun!

 

Many people come to the Good Food Festival because they want to experience the jam-packed Exhibit Hall. Once again, we expect over 125 vendors including a great mix of farmers, artisan food producers,  food advocates, and more. We'll also have a Grow Your Own Pavilion and lots of CSA farmers! Check 'em out below and be sure to buy your tickets in advance for the workshops. We expect them to sell out! 

 

Check Out Our GROWING Exhibitor List!  

Good Food Festival, Saturday March 19, UIC Forum 

 

A la Card Chicago ~ Abbey Brown Soap Artisan ~  

Academy for Global Citizenship ~ American Grassfed Beef ~ Angelic Organics Learning Center ~ Animal Welfare Approved ~ Associated Milk Producers, Inc. ~ Barbara's Bookstore ~  

Bio Soil Enhancers, Inc. ~ Birky Family Farms Country Gourmet ~ Breslin Farms, LLC ~ Brian Severson Farms ~ C&D Farms ~ Chicago Botanic Garden ~ Chicago Indoor Garden, Inc. ~  

City Micro Farms, LLC ~ Clif Bar & Company ~  

Co-op Image, Co-op Sauce LLC ~ Cook's Bison Ranch ~  

Cousin's Incredible Vitality ~ Cristina Foods, Inc. ~  

Crop to Cup Coffee Company ~ Darn Hot Peppers ~  

Dietzler Farms ~ Dill Pickle Food Coop ~

Door to Door Organics ~ Earth First Farms ~  

Eden Farms Incorporated ~ Edible Chicago ~ Esther's Place ~ FamilyFarmed.org ~ Farm Business Development Center ~ Farmer Veteran Coalition ~ Food & Water Watch  

~ Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) ~  

Foundation for Wellness Professionals ~ Grass Point Farms ~ Grassfields ~ Green Earth Institute ~ Green Generations ~  

Green Submarine Pickles ~ Growing Home ~ Growing Power Inc. ~ Hasselmann Family Farm ~ I-Go Car Sharing ~  

Illinois Stewardship Alliance ~ Irv & Shelly's Fresh Picks ~  

Jake's Country Meats ~ JDY Gourmet ~ Joe's Blues ~  

Kilgus Farmstead Inc. ~ La Mexicana Inc. ~ Lakeside Foods ~ LocalFolks Foods ~ Manna Organics, LLC ~ Mindful Metropolis ~ Natural Direct LLC ~ Nature's Farm ~ Nature's Path Foods Inc. ~  New Trends Publishing ~ Niman Ranch ~ Nordic Creamery ~ Oregon Tilth ~ Organic Valley ~ Q7 Ranch ~  

R.G.W Candy Company ~ Renaissance Farm ~ Riveridge Produce ~ Rockome Garden Foods ~ Ruth and Phil's Gourmet Ice Cream ~ SenTEAmental Moods ~ Square One Organics ~  

The Blueberry Store / True Blue Farms ~ The Scrumptious Pantry ~ Tiny Greens Organic Farm ~ Tomato Mountain Farm ~  

Two Cookin Sisters Specialty Food Company ~ Urban Ponics LLC ~ WCPT AM&FM Chicago's Progressive Talk Radio ~  

Wertheimer Box Corp. ~ Weston A. Price Foundation & Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund ~ Wind Ridge Herb Farm ~ Working Farms Capital

 

Get your Good Food Festival tickets here and please visit our exhibitor page online for the most up-to-date listings! 
Michael O'Gorman

So You Want to be a Farmer?

Friday, March 18, 5:30-7:00 pm

FREE WORKSHOP!

(No Registration Necessary)

 

Farmer-Veteran Coalition Director and Founder Michael O'Gorman will be speaking March 18 on the "So You Want to Be a Farmer" panel.  O'Gorman has farmed for 40 years and has been Production Manager for several of the West Coast's largest organic vegetable companies, growing $200 million of organic food in recent years.    

 

"I got involved helping young men and women coming back from war start to farm," he said recently in a New York Times feature, "because I see in them the temperament of someone who can get into farming and stick with it...The military is not for the faint of heart, and neither is farming".  

 

O'Gorman is joined by farmer training experts from the Prairie Crossing Business Development Center, Angelic Organics Learning Center, and the Chicago Botanic Garden. Don't miss this free workshop (no registration necessary)! And tell your friends who want to nuture their inner farmer to come. It's right after an amazing day of programming for the trade and right before Localicious, the good food party of the season! Going to be a great night! Registration is required for other programming and Localicious.  Click here for ticket information. 

  Welcome  

City Provisions!  

   

We are proud to announce that City Provisions has joined the FamilyFarmed EXPO management team for 2011.  City Provisions is a City Provisions is a Chicago-based downtown delicatessen and caterer who's mission is to connect their community with food.    City Provisions

City Provisions is committed to providing creative recipes using local, sustainable and organic foods.  Talk to City Provisions about your party, special event, wedding, etc.  They even host Supper Clubs and Farm Dinners! 

Crop to Cup

 

Family Farmed EXPO welcomes Crop to Cup Coffee who will be providing coffee all three days of the EXPO. 

Crop to Cup - doing their best to bring customers closer to the crop, to introduce you to the people behind the beans that you brew! Visit them online! 

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