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Farm to Table Expo at the Home & Garden Show

 

David L. Lawrence Conventon Center

We've partnered with the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show!

We are thrilled to invite you to visit us at the 17th Annual Farm to Table Buy Local Expo, a prominent feature of the 2024 Spring Pittsburgh Home and Garden Show. This extraordinary event is scheduled to run from March 8 to March 17, 2024, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

The Farm to Table Buy Local Expo is where local farms, food producers, wineries, breweries, distilleries, meaderies, and anyone involved in local agriculture really shines! 

In addition to our incredible vendors, the expo offers ten days of networking and educational opportunities, including the chance to earn Act 48 credits. Our educational programs will include cooking demonstrations, gardening classes with the esteemed gardening guru, Doug Oster, discussions about specialty crops, agritourism, CSAs, farmers’ markets, and much more! This expo is not only a place to showcase local food offerings but also a hub for promoting awareness and education about where food comes from and the availability of healthy food and lifestyle choices.

We hope you will consider this invitation and join us in continuing to make the Farm to Table Buy Local Expo an integral part of the Spring Pittsburgh Home and Garden Show! Your involvement will undoubtedly contribute to the overall accomplishment of this remarkable event!

2024 Spring Buy Local Expo Vendors

March 11-March 14

March 15-17

Stage Schedule:

 

Friday, March 8, 2024

3:00pm

Doug Oster & John Barkley with Marburger Dairy: How to Grow Your Best Garden Ever and The Benefits of Drinking Local Dairy

4:00pm

Tamara O’Brien, Plant it Further PA Farm to School Network: Plant it Further, Finding the Balance Between Ecorestoration and Regenerative Agriculture

5:00pm

Trevor Ring, Community Cultures Pittsburgh: Exploring the Flavors of the Landscape Through Wild-Fermented Sodas

6:00pm

Doug Oster: The Problem with Deer, What to Grow

 

Saturday, March 9, 2024

2:00pm

Kathy Shearer, The Kefir Chicks: Water Kefir 101 What It Is & How to Make It

3:00pm

Doug Oster & Emily Stein with Pennsylvania Resource Council: Compost is King Organic Gardening for Success and The Food Scrap Pantry

4:00pm

Robert Gray, Grow Pittsburgh: Intro to Organic Gardening

5:00pm

Raqueeb Ajamu-Osgaboro, Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh Co-op

6:00pm

Doug Oster & Christina Joy Neumann with Apoidea Apiary: Favorite Varieties & How to Make Them Thrive and Spotted Lanternfly Honey Dew

 

 

Sunday, March 10, 2024

12:00pm

Jodi Danyo, Cherry Valley Organics: Growing Edible Flowers

1:00pm

Paul Smith, PA Department of Agriculture: PA Forests Wood Products and Invasives Including Spotted Lanternfly

3:00pm

Doug Oster & Emily Stein with Pennsylvania Resource Council: How to Grow Your Best Garden Ever and The Food Scrap Pantry

4:00pm

Laura Totin Codori, Worm Return: Kitchen Waste to Garden Gold

5:00pm

Jodi Danyo, Cherry Valley Organics: Growing & Drying Herbs Organically

 

Monday, March 11, 2024

6:00pm

Doug Oster & Chris Miller from The Last Word: Favorite Varieties & How to Make Them Thrive & Making Shrubs & Tinctures from Locally Sourced items.

 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

6:00pm

Doug Oster: Compost is King, Organic Gardening for Success

 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

6:00pm

Doug Oster: The Problem with Deer, What to Grow

 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

6:00pm

Doug Oster: How to Grow Your Best Garden Ever

 

Friday, March 15, 2024

1:00pm

Christina Brodland, Evelyne’s Farm: Developing & Testing Sustainable Farming Practices

2:00pm

Hayly Hoch,  Allegheny County Conservation District: Soil Health

3:00pm

Don Kremer, MI-Grow: Vertical Farming-Elevating Our Approach to Local, Fresh Food

6:00pm

Caitlin Courtney, Jared Lordan & Michael Foust, University of Pittsburgh: Local & Sustainable College Dining

 

Saturday, March 16, 2024

1:00pm

Matthew Zuk, Ecotone Renewables: Ecotone Renewables ZEUS Digester: Turning Food Waste to Fertilizer in the Greater Pittsburgh Region

2:00pm

Kathy Shearer,  The Kefir Chicks: Water Kefir 101 What It Is & How to Make It

2:30pm

Lynne Gelston, Dream Thyme Farm: Extend Your Purchasing Power to Feed Your Family by Getting to Know Your Local Farmer

3:30pm

Ed Wrenn, Western PA Chapter of Wild Ones: Native Plants-Great Partners for Food

4:30pm

Jim Douglas, Hucklebee Farms: Cooking with Honey & Pollinator Health

 

7:00pm

Mackin Family Bluegrass Band

 

Sunday, March 17, 2024

2:00pm

Sarah Weiss, PennWest University California: Beginning Mushroom Foraging: How to Sustainably Forage &Get Help Foraging for Local Mushrooms

 

2024 Stage Schedule:

Interested in partnering with Farm to Table Buy Local?

Learn more about Farm to Table Buy Local sponsorship opportunities, kids activities, community and urban gardens, food resources, local food guide ads, and more.

Some interesting stats about the 350,000 consumers who attended the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show:

  • 89% spend $500+/week on food products
  • 76% are “serious about cooking”
  • 93% want to sample “new” food products
  • 71% cook 6 or more “real” meals per week

For more information, contact Erin Hart at erin@farmtotable.com