by Joe Grafton
It’s pretty safe to say that The Boston Local Food Festival presented by The Sustainable Business Network of Great Boston exceeded everyones expectations. While estimates have yet to be announced, I was there and think the number is at least 10,000 people, and likely many many more.
Here’s a selection of images from the day
A view from behind the stage....the festival was supposed to close down one of the bridges, but the night before the permit was not approved by the city. Instead, a dense network of vendor tents on the lawn made things a little tight but packed with local love.
Festival Sponsor, Katsiroubas Brothers Fruit & Produce
Unsurprisingly, the area in front of the Taza Chocolate booth was packed
Cooking Demos, like this one by friend & SLF Blogger JJ Gonson, were a hit....
...as were butchering demos. Bringing meat eaters closer to their food.
The festival was packed all day long. This was taken the @ 3:00 PM.
Some great roots music took the stage to close things out
The festival organizing team: Emily Kanter (Festival Organizer), Laury Hammel (SBN Executive Director), Erwin (Festival Organizer), Fan Watkinson (Festival Organizer), Nicola Williams (Lead Festival Organizer)
Finally, here’s an interview with festival organizers (with a late appearance form me) from a documentarian traveling across the country on a cross country, called the Sustainable 1000, doing 1,000 interviews in 250 days.
