Sustainable-Organic-Local Food Festival 2012

S.O.L. Food Festival

Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 4-8 p.m.

Sustainable – Organic – Local

As we collectively mark earth day, our S.O.L. Food Festival is a way to celebrate our deepest connections to the planet and each other.  It is an evening filled with wonderful music, great presentations that will provide ways for you to step deeper into living green and caring for each other, and of course, food that is all sustainable, organic and local.

Schedule

Music

All our music takes place on our main stage.

4:15     Bay Area Big Band

5:00     Bay Area Big Band and Contra Costa Children’s Choir

5:30     Contra Costa Children’s Choir

6:00     Acoustic Music

7:00     Garage Band: Summer Music Project

Food

Organic finger foods will be distributed throughout the night, our Lemon / Lime Juice stand, dessert station, and wine table will operate at various times throughout the event.  We open up the sampling of organic produce and grass fed beef at 6:00 for dinner.  Enjoy!

Presentations

Attending a presentation is optional during the festival.  Three presentations take place on the main stage at 5:15, 5:45, and 6:45.  The others all take place on our smaller upstairs stage and you are invited to attend as many as you like.

4:00     Welcome

4:30     Kids and Ecology (The Nurture Center)

4:45     Your Spirit and the Environment (Pastor Dan Senter)

5:00     Agricultural Biodiversity: Grow it, Eat it, Save it (Sunnyside Organics)

5:15     Beef:  Why the grass matters (Holding Ranch)

5:45     Real Food 4 Real People (Interfaith CSA)

6:00     A Community Garden (Lafayette Community Garden)

6:15     Agricultural Biodiversity: Grow it, Eat it, Save it (Sunnyside Organics)

6:30     Xeriscaping:  Plants that thrive where you live

6:45     Fighting Hunger: One fruit tree at a time (The Urban Farmers)

7:00     A Community Garden (Lafayette Community Garden) – upstairs stage

7:30     Xeriscaping:  Plants that thrive where you live

7:45     Your Spirit and the Environment (Pastor Dan Senter) – upstairs stage

For Kids

4:00     Decorating your green event bag (ongoing)

4:15     Art Project (Building Bridges Pre-School)

6:15     Movie Time

6:45     Art Project (Building Bridges Pre-School)

Information Tables Include

Holding Ranch

The Urban Farmers

The Nurture Center

Sunnyside Organic

Interfaith CSA 

The Springstone School - xeriscaping

Building Bridges Pre-School

The Nurture Center

Doorstep Farmers

Contra Costa Children’s Choir

Our Saviors Lutheran Church

Boy Scouts - Troop and Pack 200

Girl Scouts

Lafayette Community Garden