Boston Local Food Fest

mtwadmin - Fri, September 17, 2010

Eating locally and sustainably has been all the rage in these parts for a while.  You can’t walk down Mass Ave without seeing a sign in the window of some eatery bragging about their “local ingredients.”  Your friends are posting pictures of everything they put in their mouths on Facebook with a smug laundry-list of the CSAs and local farms where they got the grassfed beef and summer squash.  On the bright side, the Union Square Farmer’s Market is now going to run through the winter. Also, there’s the Boston Local Food Fest.

From the official website:
“The Boston Local Food Festival… is a delicious outdoor celebration of the many benefits of local food. Located on the historic Boston waterfront, along Fort Point Channel, the festival showcases affordable and scrumptious food grown and produced in the Boston area, Massachusetts, and New England. Festival-goers can engage with farmers, chefs and entrepreneurs, learn from exhibits and demonstrations, and enjoy activities and local music. Boston Local Food Festival is an entertaining, fun way to purchase healthy local food and support local businesses and organizations, learn about healthier, more sustainable choices and embrace cultural variety of food, music and art.”

It goes down on Saturday, October 2nd, from 11AM to 5PM.  It’s free to enter, and there will be tons of delicious local food to buy and explore, plus local beer tastings (sold!), a goat-butchering demonstration by Tom of Savenor’s, and a fresh mozzarella making demonstration by Somerville Farmer’s Market fave, Lourdes Smith. 

If there was ever something that was worth a transfer to the Silver Line, this is it.