Upcoming GetLocal event
Where food producers and food buyers find each other.
If you’re a food buyer, food producer or food distributor you need to attend this event! Not just because we’re supporting the event through a door prize donation and think these folks are great for putting on this event again, but because the event’s main purpose is to increase local food production and consumption. Ingenious! But how, you ask?
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 the Meet Your Maker event, organized by Get Local and Local Food First, will be held at the PNE in Vancouver from 9.30am to 4.30pm. The 2nd Annual event will allow local food buyers, producers and distributors the opportunity to network with each other in the hopes of building strong connections to increase local food production and consumption.
FEATURES:
~ 3 Informative Workshops: Marketing/EcoPackaging, RSAs (Restaurant/Retail Shared Agriculture), Selling beyond the farmers’ market
~ 2 structured, speed-dating sessions
~ 1 informal networking session
~ A fabulous, local sit-down lunch
Meet Your Maker is modeled after Portland’s successful Farmer-Chef Connection started in 2001. Since then, their network has grown to over 250 producers and 150 buyers who are collectively doing $19 million in annual business.
On the Get Local website you can download the invitation & agenda, watch a short clip of last year’s event and register on-line.
Voila! Putting the necessary people in the same room to give us more local food…I love it! And if you attend, I hope you are the lucky door prize winner!
~ j
Tags: Farmer-Chef Connection, Get Local, Local Food First, Meet Your Maker