Eat Local at the inaugural Winter Garden Harvest Festival
A Local Folkus, LLC, producers of the
fall Winter Park Harvest Festival, are partnering with the City of
Winter Garden and Slow Food Orlando to produce the first Winter Garden HarvestFestival
this spring.
The festival will take place on May 5th, 2012 in the heart of Winter Garden's
Downtown Historic District from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will feature a local,
producer-only farmers market adjacent to the city’s existing Saturday market.
The event will offer an assortment of local food, craft vendors, farm and food
related demonstrations, family-friendly activities, and live entertainment.
Neighbors and visitors alike will have an opportunity to interact with local
food purveyors, gardeners, and food experts throughout the day.
From 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.,
Edible Orlando Magazine has partnered with the festival to hold “Sips and Skylines,” a
rooftop garden tour of Green Sky Growers and a cocktail tasting and mixology
demo in Winter Garden’s new restaurant, Al Fresco.
Following the daytime festivities,
a Farm-to-Table dining event will take place from 7:00 to 10:00pm in Winter
Garden's beautiful downtown pavilion. The ticketed dinner will highlight
West Orange County’s chefs’ local, seasonal farm-fresh ingredients, as well as some of
Central Florida’s best micro brews.
This event is an opportunity to
celebrate the City of Winter Garden's farming heritage, while spotlighting its
modern connection to the local food scene. In an effort to build on the
community's unique history and offer more options to its citizens, the City of
Winter Garden has made local food a priority. For instance, the city has
championed a highly successful farmers market in the Downtown Pavilion, and has
furthermore developed a farm incubation program to help small farmers grow
their businesses on city-owned land. Through these efforts, and through the
first Winter Garden Harvest Festival, the city will continue to strengthen its
community bonds and will further the availability of local food to its citizens
and businesses.
*Purchase your tickets for the Farm to Table Dinner
- here.
*Interested in sponsoring this event, please click
- here.
*Register for “Sips and Skylines”- here.
*Want to be a vendor? Apply here.
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