2024 Local Foods Champion Award

Ferndale Market

2024 Innovative Local Sourcing Award

Hidden Springs Creamery

2024 Inspiring Social Benefit Award

Indigenous Food Lab

7 - 9:30 am

Check-in/booth setup, continental breakfast

10 am - 2 pm

Buyers' Expo* 
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12 pm

*Lunch available while Expo is ongoing

2 - 2:30 pm

FEAST! Network awards and remarks + dessert buffet

2:30 - 4 pm

FEAST! Founders Forum
Led by Kate LaBrosse, Vice Chair of Naturally Minnesota and a seasoned CPG industry expert, this session is all about harnessing the vast wisdom in the room and enabling founders to help each other. Come ready with questions on operations, retail success, team development, channel strategy, product development, logistics and more. This is not just a workshop; it's a collaborative space where the room's collective experience becomes a powerful resource. Make sure to stick around after the expo for this session of shared knowledge, mutual support, and the camaraderie of founders working together to overcome challenges and foster success in the dynamic world of CPG.

Almsted's Enterprises

Brine’s Market & Deli

Cannon Falls Area Schools

CannonBelles Coffee and Ice Cream

Chris' Food Center

City Center Market

Cultivate Mankato Early Childcare Development

Fox Coulee Fresh Farms

Fresh Thyme Market

Hutchinson Public Schools

Independent Natural Food Retailers Association (INFRA)

Indigenous Food Lab Market

Just Food Co-op

Keepsake Cidery

Kowalski's Markets

Lakeview Terrace Farmers Market

Lakewinds Food Co-op

Lund Food Holdings (Lunds & Byerlys)

Mackenthun's Fine Foods

Mastel's Health Foods

Minneapolis Public Schools

Minnesota Grocers Association

MN Dept of Education

National Co+op Grocers (NCG)

Neighborly Gifts

Oneota Community Cooperative

People's Food Coop

Pepin Brands

Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools

Rochester Public Schools

RonMar Foods

Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Nutrition Services

Roseville Area Schools

Saint Charles Public Schools

Spiral Food Co-op

Strawberries Galore & More LLC

Super Fresh

Target Corp

UNFI

University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Waconia Public School District

Wayzata Public Schools

Wedge Community Co-ops

Willow River School

Winona School District

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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