Sunday: Dutchtown Harvest Festival
Sunday is the Dutchtown Harvest Festival:
Bring your appetite for food, knowledge and fun!
October 23, 2011, 11am to 5pm
Marquette Park* in Dutchtown
Mayor Slay’s Vanguard Cabinet and the Downtown Dutchtown Business Association present the first ever St. Louis Food Day celebration!
Think Earth Day but all about producing, preparing and eating FOOD! This new national holiday is dedicated to addressing problems with food production, distribution, access and education and is being championed by folks like Michael Pollan and Alice Waters. Our hope is to invigorate the blossoming food culture of Dutchtown within the context of St. Louis and the Midwest.
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Features include a kids zone, locally produced food, cooking contest, cooking demos, nutrition education, live music and food vendors.Â
The location is the beautiful Marquette Park in south St. Louis (Google Maps). Some scenes in the 2005 film The Game of Their Lives were filmed in Marquette Park.
– Steve Patterson
Ha, this is funny! I live half a block–less, actually–from Marquette Park, and this is the first I’ve heard of this. Bang the rocks together guys, and get a better marketing team next year. I might go and see Celia’s (spelled Ceila at Food Day promo site*eye roll*) Big Rock Band–always liked her sense of humor and playfulness.
Ha, this is funny! I live half a block–less, actually–from Marquette Park, and this is the first I’ve heard of this. Bang the rocks together guys, and get a better marketing team next year. I might go and see Celia’s (spelled Ceila at Food Day promo site*eye roll*) Big Rock Band–always liked her sense of humor and playfulness.
I agree with samizdat, I live near Grand and Gravois and I have not heard of the event until now. Although living a 1/2 block away and having no knowledge about the event is really bad. Tower Grove spillover could help spread success to other city parks. I just checked the St. Louis City website, this event is not listed. I also checked the foodday website, and earth day is helping them. http://www.stlouisearthday.org/2011/09/foodday/ (Complete with press release link).
I like the idea of a Harvest Fest, Bethel, Missouri and other rural areas have events celebrating harvest. Agriculture should be part St. Louis. (In general I don’t think St. Louis does a very good job of paying attention to the vast agriculture riches that surround the region)
The City should have a role in promoting this event. I think it is telling that Earthday does not consider the City a worthy partner. Whatever happened, the event is not listed on the city website. I guess the city did not get the press release.
I agree with samizdat, I live near Grand and Gravois and I have not heard of the event until now. Although living a 1/2 block away and having no knowledge about the event is really bad. Tower Grove spillover could help spread success to other city parks. I just checked the St. Louis City website, this event is not listed. I also checked the foodday website, and earth day is helping them. http://www.stlouisearthday.org/2011/09/foodday/ (Complete with press release link).
I like the idea of a Harvest Fest, Bethel, Missouri and other rural areas have events celebrating harvest. Agriculture should be part St. Louis. (In general I don’t think St. Louis does a very good job of paying attention to the vast agriculture riches that surround the region)
The City should have a role in promoting this event. I think it is telling that Earthday does not consider the City a worthy partner. Whatever happened, the event is not listed on the city website. I guess the city did not get the press release.