The following event coincides with another downtown tasting event in
Corning on Friday evening, and the venue for the festival is next
door to a skating rink, so there's plenty of family fun available for
our friends in Corning and surrounding communities. Please pass along!
Corning Locally-Grown Foods Festival
Friday, February 19, 5:00-8:00 pm
Union Hall, 100 Civic Center Plaza, Corning NY
Cornell Cooperative Extension invites consumers to meet regional
farmers and sample locally produced meats, vegetables, fruits,
cheese, wines, microbrews and other farm products at the first-ever
Locally-Grown Foods Festival in Corning, NY. More than 20 local
producers will be present to talk about their farms and to share
information on buying local products. The event will feature a series
of mini-classes on working with local butchers, how to join a
Community Supported Agriculture cooperative, the benefits of buying
local meats and produce, and more. Some local products will be
available for sale and Food Stamps will be accepted toward purchases.
Admission is $5 per individual/$10 per family. Call Steuben County
Cornell Cooperative Extension at 607-664-2300 to register or for more
information, or email Kerri Bartlett at [email protected].
Reservations are appreciated by February 17 so that an appropriate
amount of samples may be prepared
Participants include:
Allen's Stock Farm
Angus Glen Farm
Autumn's Harvest Farm (Romulus)
Burns Family Farm
Capricorn Hill Farm (Pine City)
CCE-Chemung
CCE-Steuben
Cooly's Butcher Bay
Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese Co.
Hazlitt 1852 Vineyard
High Meadow Farm
Hillsprings Farm
Kanona Custom Meats
Lakewood Vineyard
Maple Valley Farm
Muddy Fingers Farm
Nistock Farm
Ort Family Farm (Bradford)
Painter's Meat Processing
Peaceweaver Organic Farm (Bath)
Reisinger's Apple Country (Watkins Glen)
Shady Maple Farm
Spring Flight Farm
Sunset View Creamery (Odessa)
Warren Cline
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