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
