And we’re back with more Farm Aid!
Missed Part I? Farm Aid 2011 Kick off Party.
Farm Aid Food
I couldn’t wait another post to talk about my favorite part of just about everything … the food! Allow me to start very bluntly.
Farm Aid had, hands down, the best concession options. Ever.
But first … check out what we got in our neat swag bags!
Nice big tote? Raw agave? Chipotle gift card? Ticket for a free shirt? They {unknowingly} know me well!
Those Chipotle gift cards will be used very soon, I can assure you of that. Now to the important stuff … food!
Farmer’s Market Style
One of my favorite things about Farm Aid was that there were booths filled with fresh fruits and fresh baked goods. Why can’t every event have a booth of local produce, seriously?? The fruits included local berries, apples and fresh peaches.
It was so nice to be able to go grab some berries, an apple or a peach if you were hungry and just needed a quick healthy snack.
Fresh tomatoes have been AMAZING lately, too. I love it.
Food Venders
There were also several different booths that had meat from local family farmers for the meat eaters out there. We quite enjoyed Patchwork Family Farms shirts that said “Stop Factory Farms”. In fact, we tried to buy one but there were no sizes smaller than XL.
Food Concession Stands
The menu for their large concessions stand was quite impressive. I made the detailed menu large so you could check it out:
Some highlights from the Homegrown Concessions:
- The list is full of important words like “grass fed”, “family farmed”, “antibiotic & hormone free”, “local”, “rBGH free”, “organic”!
- Concessions were supplied from:
Not surprisingly, we got the veggie burger, which is made by Hilary’s Eat Well who started Local Burger in Lawrence, KS.
And finished it off with some berries from Mule Barn Berries.
We hung out at Farm Aid pretty much all day from when it started at 1:00. The weather was perfect, I might add, so it was fun to sit, enjoy the breeze, eat good food, and relax before the flocks of people arrived.
A little later, we tried some grilled corn from Youthmarket Farm Stand:
The day was filled with great food, that’s for sure! Since we were there all day, we went back to the concessions later in the night to get a salad or veggie pizza or even another veggie burger and sadly, they were all out!
An apple came to our rescue but I do wish they would have planned for more, because there was clearly a demand for it. One of the concession ladies told us they sold out of some of those things by 4:00. Either way, I still cannot complain, they were awesome concessions!! And, hey, I’m glad they did so well that they were sold out.
Great day, great food!!
Still to come … the vendor booths and the music!
“As long as someone has his hands in the dirt to measure the health of it, I feel like everything else will be okay. As long as there is good food coming to my table from a caring farmer, then I think everything else will be okay” –Dave Mathews
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