Sunday, September 10th
11am - 5pm

We depend on volunteers at the Food Fest and would love to have you join in the fun! There are lots of opportunities to participate if you have a couple of hours: setting up, facepainting, helping out at the Shelburne Orchards food booth, helping to park cars and direct traffic, assisting folks as they get on and off the tractor hayrides, packing up and delivering Food Shelf donations, helping out at the compost/recycling station, cleaning up, filling in where needed...the options are endless. In return, you'll get a Shelburne Orchards T-shirt and the satisfaction of helping out at a wonderful event. Please contact Megan Humphrey at 864-7528 or meganh@sover.net if you're interested. And thank you in advance! This year's Volunteer Coordinators include Kate Maloney, Liz Jaquette, Emily Wexler, and Lee Wood. Nick and I want to thank them for all of their organizing and scheduling abilities!

For the first time, there will be an entrance fee for the Food Fest to help to cover some of the costs. Folks under the age of 12 and over the age of 65 will get in free. Otherwise, we request that each person purchase a $5 Pick Your Own Apples coupon---then you can come back at some point and pick apples in our gorgeous orchard (it certainly doesn't have to be on the day of the festival)! And, as in the past, each farm vendor may charge for the foods they've prepared.

Here is a list of this year's vendors:

Amy’s Granola
Fruit and yogurt parfaits topped with granola

Bloomfield Gardens
salad with spicy greens

Blue Ledge Farm
Fresh and aged goat's milk cheeses

Brigante's
corn

Champlain Valley Creamery
Organic cream cheeses, hand-pulled fresh mozzarella, “Champlain Triple” (soft-ripened triple crème)

Charlotte Village Winery
4 styles of grape wine, 5 styles of fruit

Island Homemade Ice Cream
ice cream

It’s Arthur’s Fault
Sweet and savory sauces and marinades, grilled vegetables with marinades, cooking class gift certificates

Kingdom Mountain Maple
Maple crepes , blueberry-filled crepes, marfax baked beans sweetened with maple syrup, chocolate zucchini cake.

Lakes End Cheeses
goat and sheep cheeses

Maple Wind Farm
Grass-fed and finished hamburgers with locally made buns, cheese and veggies; pork sausage; and lamb burgers; chilled cucumber soup

Miskell Tomatoes
Organic hothouse tomatoes

Misty Knoll
chicken

NOFA-Vermont Wood-Fired Oven
Local, seasonal farm fresh foods cooked in a wood-fired oven

Pizza on Earth
Wood-fired oven pizza, assorted breads, gelato

Refarm Vermont
Pickled foods

Shelburne Farms & O’Bread Bakery
Shelburne Farms’ farmhouse and raw-milk cheddars, O’Bread

Shelburne Farms Market Garden
Cold root vegetable salad with maple vinaigrette dressing

Shelburne Orchards
Cider doughnuts, Apple Betty, caramel apples, Refresh-Mint drink, and more!

Shelburne Vineyard
Wine

Stony Loam Farm
Vegetable dishes; fresh pesto on pasta with fire-roasted peppers; roasted potatoes, garlic and onions; and fresh mixed salad with sungold cherry tomatoes

Stony Pond Farm
Organic beef kabobs

Three Owls Farm Company
Sheep and cow cheese, semi-hard tome style, blue and washed rind

Vermont Coffee Company
Fresh roasted organic hot and cold coffee

Woodstock Water Buffalo Company
1/2 oz. yogurt samples

We'll have live music all day! Here's the schedule:
11:00am- Hammer & Saw (all-girl, old-time music with clawhammer, banjo, fiddle, and other instrumentation)
12:00pm- Red Thread (everything from Latin to Gypsy jazz to modern jazz)
1:00pm - Meat Packers (bluegrass, country, redneck)
2:00pm - Blue Norther (bluegrass)
3:00pm - Barbara Wager & Robert Resnik (Shoo-fly pie and Apple Pan Dowdy---rocking music about food)
4:00pm - Silver Leviathan (eclectic brass)
5:00pm - Hibernators (bluegrass, swing)
6:00pm - Jugtown Pirates of Lake Champlain (jug, washboard, washtub basses, etc.)

Kids will have plenty to do, as well. We'll have tractor hayrides through the orchard, ropemaking demonstrations, the haybale maze back again this year, Juggling by Emmett Dooley at 1pm & 2pm, a mini-horse and cart, and Connie Compost and Reggie Recycle.

We'll be collecting nonperishable foods this year for local food shelves. The best items to bring would be tuna, peanut butter, cereal, soup, canned fruits and vegetables, and pasta. While we're all enjoying the fruits of local farms and food producers, we can contribute to folks who may need a little assistance.

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