Winter Park Harvest Festival: Nov 20th

The Harvest Festival has it’s own website now.  Please visit www.WInterParkHarvestFestival.com for more information.

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The goal of the Winter Park Harvest Festival is to connect the grass-roots with the deep-roots of our community.  We want to celebrate the local harvest of our farmers and gardeners, as well as the creative work of our local entrepreneurs and non- profits.

BoxWithRakeIt is a festival to celebrate and share who we are as a community and to showcase the traditions and values that make Central Florida such a wonderful place to call home.

The format of the festival will be a day-long conference with seminars, workshops and roundtables covering a range of topics, but primarily focussed on our local food system and the social and economic capital it needs to flourish.

The day will culminate with a Farm to Table dinner consisting of locally sourced foods prepared by some of Winter Park’s most talented chefs.

DrewDiggingIt is our hope that this event will make in-roads to establishing a healthy and vibrant local food system for all of our citizens, regardless of their income level.  Because we believe that having access to fresh and nutritious food shouldn’t be a luxury, but an affordable and enjoyable endeavor.

With the recent establishment of several community gardens, local farmer’s markets the growth of the Homegrown co-op and by connecting our local farmers directly to their consumers we are taking important steps toward creating a local food system worthy of emulation.

tomatoWe regard it as part of our legacy to reintroduce our children to the means of their food production and part of our social obligation to share the bounty of our harvest table with those in our community who need it the most.

While we can’t control what happens to our food systems at a national level we have faith that as a thoughtful community we can promote and safeguard our local food system for this generation and for generations to come.

ShovellingThank you again for sharing a few minutes of your time with us.  We hope that you share our vision and will choose to partner with us in making this exciting event a reality.  Because, we certainly can’t do it alone, but with all the talent, influence and affluence in our community there is no reason we can’t pull it off together.

To get involved please visit our contact page and share a little of what your vision for this event is.