Tom Tom Founders Festival

Innovation:

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CALLING ALL LOCAVORES! (AKA. Being innovative never tasted so good.)

Forbes named Charlottesville the “locavore capital of the world,” and a festival about innovations in our community needs to highlight the many unique ways Charlottesville is influencing the way our nation eats.

For the festival weekend, Tom Tom calls all locavores to explore the flavor of Charlottesville through an extravaganza of local food tastings, chef demonstrations and gardening as an extension of Charlottesville's Farmers’ Market. For that Saturday, the Farmers' Market will extend into South Street Brewery and up South 1st Street toward the Downtown Mall. Meet your local farmers and producers during the seed and starts exchange! See demos and taste the fare of Charlottesville's top chefs!


From 9am-12pm:
• Chef demos every 1/2 hour by our best local chefs including Brookville Restaurant, the Ivy Inn & the Whiskey Jar and more. Hosted inside South Street Brewery
• A kids corner with seed ball making, veggie prints, other veggie and gardening crafts on South 1st street as an extension of the farmers market.
• A seed and starter exchange co-hosted with Southern Exposure Seed Exchange along south 1st street
• Craft Fair along south 1st street


From 12 pm-2pm

• Starting at 12 noon, panel discussion with PEC, the Local Food Hub, Albemarle County, JABA followed by a local food mixer to meet the farmers and producers and taste our local fare!
• Tastings with Bare Foot Bucha, Farmstead Ferments, Bellair Farm, Feast, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Rebecca's


Tastings:
Local food vendors offering tastings in south street (12-2pm)

Bare Foot Bucha
Bellair Farm
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Farmstead Ferments
Rebecca's Natural Foods
Feast

Chef Demos:
Brookville Restaurant
Ivy Inn
Whiskey Jar
Blue Light Grill

9:30 am Angelo from Ivy Inn
10:00 am Rapheal from Whiskey Jar
10:30 am Harrison Keevil from Brookville Restaurant
11:00 am Ian from Bluelight Grill
11:30 am Chris Stroupe Charlottesville Cooking School

Gardening Activities:
Local Food Hub
Buford School Garden
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
Piedmont Environmental Council

Presenters: "Improving Access to Local Foods"

Piedmont Environmental Council
Jefferson Area Board for the Aging
Albemarle County
Local Food Hub


Performances of "Lettuce, Turnip and Dance" at 10:30am and 12:00 pm at South Street Brewery
Faith Levine of Graceful Fitness

Sponsored by:
Albemarle County