Seattle Tilth's Harvest Fair 2009
Celebrate local food at Seattle's urban harvest festival.
Thank you EVERYONE who participated in this year's Harvest Fair!
It was an amazing community celebration. See some images from the event.
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Celebrate local food!
behind the Good Shepherd Center in the Wallingford neighborhood
(4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103).
Learn about growing, preparing and preserving the harvest, raising urban livestock, and community issues. Participate in activities for all ages, eat tasty food and listen to local bands. This is Seattle's urban garden festival!
Urban Livestock
Meet chickens, goats and honey bees and ask their owners what it takes to produce eggs, milk and honey in your own back yard! A goat/chicken hut will be auctioned off at the Heifer Int'l. booth. Find out more...
Local Urban Marketplace & Organic Farmer's Market
Stock up on local goods, fall veggie and ornamental plants. Tasty food vendors like Skillet, Rolling Fire Pizza, Patty Pan, Mighty O Donuts and Lucky Palate will delight your tummy.
This is a great time of year to buy fresh produce in bulk for canning, preserving, or major cooking to freeze for the season, while the harvest is abundant. Support local and organic farms! See who's coming...
Workshops
Learn something new! These are FREE, except Tilth classes (*)
10:30 – 11:30a.m Demystifying Organic Fertilizers – Speaker’s Tent
10:30-11:30 a.m. Lawns to Lettuce is FULL* - Tilth class in the Demo Garden
11:30-12:30 p.m. Harvest the Rain with a Cistern – Speaker’s Tent
12:30-1:30 p.m. Winter Gardening* is FULL– Tilth class in the Demo Garden
1:30-3:00 p.m. Earthues: Make Natural Dyes From the Garden – Speaker’s Tent
2:00-4:00 p.m. Home Canning & Food Preservation - Good Shepherd Center
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Winter Gardening* – Tilth class in the Demo Garden
2:30-4:00 p.m. Compost Open House: Compost Your Food & Yard Waste at Home – Demo Garden
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PCC Cooks – these friendly chefs will show you great ideas on how you can cook delicious and nourishing recipes with fresh ingredients
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Kids Picks Mobile – join PCC and let your kids sample foods that are healthy and tasty
Community Show-n-Tell
Find out what's going on in the local food system, environment, economy, education, transportation and beyond, by getting to know the community organizations working to create a healthy environment and community. See who's coming....
Sweet Live Music
This event is known for showcasing great local talent. Buskers are welco
10-10:45 a.m. TBA
11:15-noon Holy Crows
1:15-2 p.m. Beach 3
2:15-3 p.m. W.B. Reid & Bonnie Zahnow
3:15-4 p.m. The Burrs
4:15-5 p.m. Trio Lucero Del Norte
Family Fun
- Participate in activities in the Children's Garden like face painting, worm bin exploration, and garden crafts. Join the Harvest Parade at noon (bring musical instruments) and stay tuned for Lisa Taylor's Creepin' Critters Puppet Show immediately afterward from 12:30-1 p.m.!
- Make an herb crown (donations of fresh cut herbs & flowers are welcome)
- Take a self-guided tour of the teaching garden and get ideas for your garden.
The Restaurant Raffle
Buy tickets to win a $100 gift certificate to one of these excellent restaurants that use fresh local ingredients: Cafe Flora, Canlis, Serafina, Tilth. Raffle tickets can be bought at the Tilth booth, or from a roving restaurant raffler. Proceeds support Seattle Tilth.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
Many thanks to the wonderful Sponsors of this year’s Harvest Fair! P
- Bedrooms and More - local family business with natural, organic and sustainable mattresses
- Cascade Harvest Coalition - supporting Washington farms
- CROPP Co-op/Organic Valley Pacific NW - cooperative of organic family farms
- Hendrikus Organics - organic soil amendments and services
- National Wildlife Federation - promoting community wildlife
habitats
- New Roots Organics - fresh organic produce, delivered to your door
- PCC Natural Markets - greater Seattle's natural organic grocery store
- ShoreBank Pacific - sustainable banking
- Swanson's Nursery - visit now for their biggest sale of the year
- Vesta Home Performance Retrofitting - improving energy efficiency in you
r home
- We Design - sustainable landscape design and installation including edibles and natives
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Zipcar - car sharing program
... and our Media Sponsors!
- KUOW 94.9 fm - Puget Sound Public Radio
- EcoMetro - creators of Chinook Book
How you can help
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Volunteer. Lend a hand and enjoy the comraderie, good snacks and after party. More info...
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Say "cheese!". Photographers and videographers, we would love to get copies of Harvest Fair images for our newsletter and website.
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Spread the word. Download the Harvest Fair poster and tell your friends about the Harvest Fair.
Questions?
Call us at (206)633-0451 ext. 109 or email harvestfair@seattletilth.org.
