VENDORS

Friends of the Farmer
Hudson Valley Food Lovers Festival

Farmers, Specialty Food Producers, Local Businesses, NonProfits VEND!
How a seed grows!

Stroll the hills of the Hudson Valley in Columbia County at Copake Country Club on Copake Lake, eat, shop, drink, learn, sample, try, taste, support and enjoy food, drink and libations from specialty food makers, growers, famers, producers and food lovers of the region. Kids activities welcome! Currency: 1 ticket = $1 Buy and taste all of your local favorites carnival style by spending tickets with local vendors. The more you spend - the more we give bring awareness to those that keep us so well fed in the Hudson Valley!

FARM ON!

Exhibit at the festival
To be an exhibitor at the festival please contact: [email protected]
download the vendor form here

Activities

2013 Locavore Village Vendors

Amazing Real Live Food Company
American Stonecraft
Barrington Bites
Bola Granola
Cool Whisper Farm
Crown Maple
Culinary Partnership
Dutch Desserts
Dutchess County Sheep & Wool Growers Association
The Farmer's Wife
Feather Ridge Farm
Food Should Taste Good
The Greens @ Copake Country Club
Heirloom Meals
Herbane Fizz
Irving Farm Coffee Roasters
Jane's Ice Cream
John Andrews Farmhouse Restaurant
Koppers Chocolate
Lisa and Amy’s Cookie Dough
Old Chatham Sheepherding
Olivia Provisions
Peeled Snacks
Phoebe Hill
Shea Oceans
SoCo Creamery
Sol Aqua/Sun Dog Solar
Sprout Creek Farm
Sweet Girl Brownies
Taconic Hills Harvest Club
Willow Brook Farms
5 Mile Grill featuring: Hudson Valley Homestead, Rick's Picks, Maya Kaimal Indian Sauces & Ginsbergs Food and Food Should Taste Good

Local Libation Vendors

Alex Elman Wines
Chatham Brewing
C.H. Evans Brewing Company
Crossroads Brewing Company
Dutch’s Spirits
Gus Soda
Harney & Sons Fine Teas
Harvest Spirits
Hillrock Distillery
Saratoga Water
Millbrook Winery

Future of Farming Tent

Blu Homes
Cabot Cheese
Camp FarmOn!
Columbia Land Conservancy
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Farm Bureau of New York
Farm to Consumer Foundation
Fix Brothers Fruit Farm
Ginsberg’s
Hawthorne Valley Farm
Herondale Farm
Hudson Valley Bounty
Hudson Valley Fresh
Hummingbird Ranch
Katchkie Farm
Maple Hill Creamery
Orion Magazine
Pigasso Farm
Ronnybrook Farm Dairy
Slow Food
Sol Flower Farm
Specialty Food Association
Spruce Ridge Farm
Sylvia Center
Valley Energy
Weston A. Price Foundation
Whole Foods

Little Farmers Tent
Antique Tractor Parade (all day)
Bee Keeper from Hummingbird Ranch (all day)
Seed to Plate Taste Test Challenge & Planting Box (all day)
Corn Sand-Box (all day)
Food Sculpture (all day)
Face Painting with Tracy Hanselman (1-4pm)
FarmOn! Photo Booth & Dress Up (Live Streaming & Social Media real time photos and videos) (all day)
Feather Ridge Farm Egg Toss (1pm)
Fishing Derby (11-3pm)
Hay Maze Race (weather depending)
Petting Zoo
Pony Rides (11-1pm)
Sack Races (all day)
Seed Packet Art (all day)
Tug O War (all day)
Wild Goose Chase (Two shows 1pm AND 3pm)
Wild Pheasant Release from THHS Harvest Club (4pm)
Milk Taste Test Challenge with Hudson Valley Fresh (all day)

Activities
Headline Music with Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
Opening band: Pocatello
on the John Varvatos Stage
FarmOn! Photo Booth with Live Streaming Photos and Videos
Little Farmers Kids Activities Galore
CSA Sign Up
Meet your Farmer Local Libation Mixer
Hang out @VGP Lounge ("Very Generous Person" VIP Backstage access with Purchase of Table at July 19 Hootenanny! Benefit Dinner)
RobinHood Radio Heirloom Meals with Carole Murko
Woodstock Radio WDST Live Broadcast with Justin Foy
Locavore Taste Test Challenge
Raffle
Silent Auction