To Our Neighbors,
Registration for the 2012 Harvest Festival will begin in September.
On Sunday November 18th we will be hosting a “producer” only farmers and vendors market in the West Meadow of Winter Park’s Central Park. The goal of the festival and market is to give our local local farmers, gardeners, entrepreneurs and non-profits a venue to showcase the valuable products and services that they provide to our community.
The event is being marketed through the the festival’s website, local and national blogs, local TV, radio and news outlets as well as through social networking sites and local social and community calendars. Not to mention, the more than 3,000 attendees of last year’s Festival spreading some great word of mouth advertising too.
The festival offers an opportunity for your business or organization to reach thousands of attendees ranging from the influential and affluent deep-roots of Central Florida to the passionate and progressive grass-roots of our local community. Attendees will range from those inquisitive about gardening to full blown green thumbs; health care specialists to those eager to make healthier choices for their families.
The Winter Park Harvest Festival is put on by a local non-profit called Our Whole Community a health initiative focused on producing inter-generational wholeness and healthy lifestyle outcomes in the Eatonville, Maitland and Winter Park communities. The Winter Park Health Foundation is the chief sponsor of the event and the focus of the seminars and roundtables are food, farm and health focused.
If you would like additional information, please contact our market coordinator Gabby at WPHarvest@Gmail.com
I was curious if you were inviting any home made entrepreneurs to this or if it is only for edibles! If so I would love an opportunity to take place in your efforts!
Thanks!
Tracy Gant
Toooo cute. I love your stuff. I have a 20 month old daughter and I’d love to dress her in some of your hip designs. To answer your questions YES we are open to non-edible vendors
We have a place for local handmade crafters. I’d love for you to be involved.
Handcrafters can register Here. I look forward to picking out some things for my daughter. Thanks for your interest Tracy.
Hello,
I would love to be a vendor for 2011 ~ please let me know if that is possible. Thanks so much!
We will be posting the vendor packets etc. by the end of the month. We’ll announce when they go up and when applications are being accepted. Thanks for your interest Colleen.
Hi John,
You stopped by out booth, Fish2Food Aquaponics at the Global Peace Street Fair last weekend.
I am looking forward to being in the festival and will check back to see when the vendor packets are available. This looks like an exciting event to movo Central Florida forward toward sustainability. I started a meetup group, Central Florida Organic Growers, and I will plan a meetup around the festival.
I am so grateful to everyone who participates in these type of events.
Victoria, Fish2Food
http://www.facebook.com/fish2food
Victoria, It was a pleasure meeting you guys and I was truly impressed with your aquaponics system. I want to put one our at the Winter Park Urban Farm for sure. I will keep you in the loop in regards to vendor space and once out seeds/seedlings are planted and we are in upkeep mode on the farm, we’ll start looking into aquaponics.
In regards to Organice Growers. If you haven’t met Tia Meer of the Simple Living Institute that would be a great place to start. She is teaching about seed saving and seeds in general Wednesday night this week at Leu gardens. If you Google “Organic Growers Meeting Leu Gardens” I’m sure you can find the details.
Ooh, I am interested in learning more… we’ve canned some, we’ve grown some. I’m not sure if I’m ready yet this year but definitely would like to be kept in the loop!!
We may be looking for someone to lead a canning/preserving session. Would you be game?
Definitely would love to chat about it!
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Is there a list of already registered vendors on the website somewhere?