Food Day in Dutchtown

Dutchtown Harvest Festival:
A Food Day event.

Bring your appetite for food, knowledge and fun!
October 23, 2011, 11am to 5pm
Marquette Park* in Dutchtown

Mayor Slay’s Vanguard Cabinet and the Downtown Dutchtown Business Association present the first ever St. Louis Food Day celebration!

Think Earth Day but all about producing, preparing and eating FOOD! This new national holiday is dedicated to addressing problems with food production, distribution, access and education and is being championed by folks like Michael Pollan and Alice Waters. Our hope is to invigorate the blossoming food culture of Dutchtown within the context of St. Louis and the Midwest.

Volunteer registration is now closed–but feel free to come by and help out! Look for Kristen near the green “Recycle” feather banner.

Features include a kids zone, locally produced food, cooking contest, cooking demos, nutrition education, live music and food vendors. DOWNLOAD & SHARE: 11×17 flier |  event press release

Features!

YAM JAM: Sweet Potato Pie Contest
Free locally produced APPLES (one per person)
Free locally grown, organic salad mix! (one bag per person)

Producers!

Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association
EarthDance

Food!

Urban Eats
Perennial Artisan Ales
Jefferson Bistro
Iron Barley
Original Crusoe’s
Feasting Fox
Keaton’s Double Play
MOFU Soy Beanery – Cooking demo & tofu sales

Local Art & Craft!

Craig Downs
Tom Lampe Photography
Meghan Kearney
Mark Swain
Katie Sheridan
Carol B. Eder Studios
Ideal Garment
Face painting ($2)
Perennial – Renovating & repairing furniture

Education & Experience!

Cooking demos
Gateway Greening
Home Eco‘s Solar Van
Grand Oak Hill Community Corporation
underWAREs – Yummy take-home recipe zine
HopeBuild – Container gardens, seedling starters
Trailnet – Bike Blender (cycle your way to a smoothie!)
St. Louis Earth Day – Recycling On the Go

Free Activities!

Mural painting
Bobbing for apples
Potato sack race
Pumpkin painting – Take home your pumpkin

Music!

Miss Jubilee & The Humdingers
Jennifer Roques
Raw Earth & Raw Earth Dancers
STL Hoop Club
Ceila’s Big Rock Band

*Rain location = Marquette Recreation Center

THANK YOU TO OUR EVENT SPONSORS, we couldn’t do it without you!