Healthy Harvest of North Iowa encourages local sourcing of food.
Healthy Harvest of North Iowa, in partnership with several North Iowa organizations and businesses, will host “The Gathering: Coming Together Around Local Food” on May 1 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the All Seasons Building at the North Iowa Events Center.
The interactive event will feature a marketplace, a series of 20-minute mini-workshops and a Kids Edition space with hands-on, educational activities.
The marketplace will offer locally produced food, including meats, produce, honey, eggs, baked goods and other products. Recipe samplings will also be available and will be packaged in to-go-friendly cups.
The mini-workshops will aim to educate participants about buying, using and growing local food. The workshops schedule is as follows:
- 9:00-9:20 a.m.: “Stop — Don’t Pull the Weed!” with Journey Health Shop
- 9:30-9:50 a.m.: Demonstration on Brewing Beer with Limestone Brewers
- 10:00-10:20 a.m.: Protecting Iowa Land for Healthy Food Farming with SILT
- 10:30-10:50 a.m.: How to Buy Local Meat with Lewrights Meats and Purple Ribbon Beef
- 11:00-11:20 a.m.: “What is a CSA?” with North Iowa Fresh, LLC, The Thomas Farmstead and Twisted River Farm
- 11:30-11:50 a.m.: The Stock Cropper
- 12:00-12:30 p.m.: HHNI: Connecting and Educating in Support of Local Food
- 12:40-1:00 p.m.: Too Good to Waste with Net ZRO Renewable Energy
