FEAST! 2023

Innovative Local Sourcing Award:

Spirit Creek Farm

FEAST! 2023

Inspiring Social Benefit Award:

Dogpatch Urban Gardens

FEAST! 2023

Local Food Champion Award:

Kowalski's Market

Tim Penny of Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation presented the FEAST! Innovative Local Sourcing Award to Rick and Karola Dalen, new co-owners of Spirit Creek Farm along with nearby farm Uffda Organics, in recognition of their dedication to continuing the brand after the founders—who had been sourcing ingredients from them all along—decided to close the business. 

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Jan Joannides of Renewing the Countryside presented the FEAST! Inspiring Social Benefit Award to Dogpatch Urban Gardens in recognition of their contributions to building community in a variety of ways, including a new food shelf. (Read more about them in Local FEAST! Vol. 5.)

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Elena Byrne and Marlene Petersen presented the FEAST! Local Food Champion Award to Max Maddaus of Kowalski's Market, in recognition of them bringing in 7 out of the 34 brands that exhibited at last year's tradeshow.

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7 - 9:30 am

Check-in/booth setup, continental breakfast

10 am - 1 pm

Buyers' Expo* 

12 pm

*Lunch available while Expo is ongoing

1:10 - 1:40 pm

Mini Sessions #1: Join one of five topic groups ranging from financial mgmt to food safety to marketing

1:45 - 2:15 pm

Mini Sessions #2: Switch to a different topic group, or stay and dig deeper!

2:30 - 3:30 pm

Wrap-up Celebration featuring dessert buffet, awards and remarks from FEAST! Network and partners

3:30 pm

Tour of Cannon Falls Food Businesses*
Guided tour of Cannon Falls' robust local foods scene; learn more below.

THANK YOU!

FEAST! Local Foods Network 2022-23 Sponsors

The 2023 FEAST! Local Foods Tradeshow is honored to provide locally-sourced meals, with ingredients from 13 local makers, thanks to the following food sponsors:

Cannon Falls Economic Development Agency

Kowalski's Markets

Minnesota Farmers Union

Country View Dairy

Carlson Roasting

Coconut Whisk

Continental Breakfast (8-10am, VENDORS only)

Farmstead yogurt, milk & cream, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, Iowa

Pastries, The Basic Place, Hammond, Minn.

Coffee, Carlson Roasting Co., Houston, Minn.

Herbal teas, Sacred Blossom Farm, Gilmanton, Wis.

Honey, The Bee Shed, Oronoco, Minn.

Unboxed Lunch (noon-1:30)

Sandwich ingredients:

Bread, Baker's Field Flour & Bread, Minneapolis, Minn. (grains grown and milled in Minn.)

Turkey, Ferndale Market, Cannon Falls, Minn. 

Cheese, CannonBelles, Cannon Falls, Minn. (made with local milk)

Microgreens, The Greensted, Zumbrota, Minn.

Potato Chips, Slide Gourmet Potato Chips, Madison, Wisc. (made from Wisconsin-grown potatoes)

Applesauce, Hoch Orchards & Gardens, La Crescent, Minn. 

Dessert Reception (2:30-3:30)

Sweet Potato Pie, West Indies Soul Food, St. Paul, Minn.

Bars, cookies, brownies, Laune Bread, Minneapolis, Minn. (made from grains grown and milled in Minn.)

Gluten-free cookies, Coconut Whisk, Minneapolis, Minn.

Special thanks to following makers for discounts on their products: 

Slide Gourmet Potato Chips, CannonBelles, Laune Bread, The Greensted

And to our Friends of FEAST! sponsors: 

Front Burner Accounting and GreenSeam

Brown Family Farm

Buchanan Grocery / Mike's Butcher Shop

City Center Market

Co-op Partners Warehouse

Ferndale Market

Grandma's Gourmets

Holmberg Orchard

Honey and Rye

Hy-Vee

Just Food Co-op

KilKenny Kitchen

Kowalski's

Lakewinds Food Co-op

Mastel's Health Foods

Minneapolis Public Schools

Minnesota Historical Society

Oneota Food Co-op

Oxendale's Market

Park Street Inn/The Tippy Canoe

People's Food Co-op

Pod Foods

Ron-Mar Foods

Royal Foods

Seasoned Specialty Food Market

Spiral Co-op

Stillwater Food Group

Strawberries Galore & More LLC

Tangletown Gardens

The New MPLS

Three Rivers Park District

UNFI