10th Annual Farm to Table Pittsburgh Conference
The conference provides consumers with two days of networking and educational opportunities. Seasonal cooking demonstrations, gardening, and information about the nutritional value of local food are presented by local experts.
Meet with other Locavores to discuss ideas about where their food comes from and where to find businesses and organizations who can provide them with healthy food and healthy lifestyle choices.
Friday & Saturday, March 18 – 19, 2016
At the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. 10am-5pm both days; additional events before and after each day.
Download Event Program: 2016 Farm to Table Pittsburgh Event Program
2016 Schedule of Events
Friday, March 18, 2016
10am – 5pm: Exhibit Hall Open
Food available all day from Real Meal Purveyors
10:30am – 4:30pm: Speakers & Demos
10:30am: Labyrinth in Concourse A
5pm – 8pm: Friday Night Food Tasting (tickets separate)
Saturday, March 19, 2016
8am: Farm Fresh Breakfast (tickets separate)
9am: Bits & Bites Tour (tickets separate)
9am: Yoga + Beer VIP
10am – 5pm: Exhibit Hall Open
Food available all day from Real Meal Purveyors
10:30am – 4:30pm: Speakers & Demos
10:30am: Labyrinth in Concourse A
4pm – 6pm: Farm to Flask Mixology event (tickets separate)
2016 Exhibitor Lineup
Farms
Big Horn Ranch Grass-fed Meats & CSA
Quiet Creek Herb Farm and School of Country Living
Producers
Franklin Inn Mexican Restaurant
Nature’s Intentions
Pittsburgh’s Original Sports Sauce
Spice it Up
Wineries
Distributors
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Republic Food Enterprise Center
Local Food Supporters
Allegheny County Health Dept. WIC & Chronic Disease
Black Mountain Spirit School of Chinese Kung Fu
Communities Alliance for Responsible Eco-Farming (CARE)
Cutco Cutlery
Freedom of Choice in Health & Nutrition
Guidant Health
Naturally Clean: Green Cleaning Service
North Hills Community Outreach
PA Department of Agriculture/PA Preferred
PASA/Western PA Buy Fresh Buy Local
Pathways to SmartCare Wellness Program
Share the Love: Cloth Diaper Bank
The Drew Mathieson Center for Horticultural and Agricultural Technology
The Foundation for Wellness Professionals
Tower Garden by The Juice Plus Co.
Women for a Healthy Environment
Yinzavore.com
Speakers & Demos
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| Day | Time | Topic | Track | Room | Speaker | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 10:30 AM | Consumer Knowledge | Tomato Room | Live Well Allegheny: Addressing Access to Healthy Options | Live Well Allegheny | Marie Fontelo |
| Friday | 2:30 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Tomato Room | Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit | Author, Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit | Andrew Moore |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM | Consumer Knowledge | Tomato Room | Feeding Your Gluten-Free Family - Balancing Nutrition Without Breaking the Bank | Gluten Free Roots | Amy Macklin |
| Saturday | 1:30 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Tomato Room | Labeling for the Conscientious Consumer | Animal Welfare Approved | Katie Yanchuk |
| Saturday | 1:30 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Sunflower Room | 1 LOCAL: Serving up local food accountability | Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) | Jessy Swisher |
| Saturday | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Carrot Room | 2nd Annual Project Lunch Tray Final Round | Community Kitchen Pittsburgh | Katie Schratz |
| Friday | 3:30 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Cucumber Stage | Buying, Using and Loving Farmstead Dairy Products (and Why It's so Important) | Family Farms Creameries | Megan Whitmer & Nathan Holmes |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM | DIY Demo | Broccoli Room | Introduction to Fresh Mozzarella: Hand pulling and recipe inspirations | Savor Fresh Catering by JPC | Rohn Sambol & Logan Brenneman |
| Saturday | 2:30 PM | DIY Demo | Broccoli Room | Grow Your Own Sprouts, Microgreens and Wheatgrass for the most powerful nutrition anytime of the year. | SanaView Farms | Janet McKee |
| Friday | 12:30 PM | DIY Demo | Carrot Room | Tai Chi: What it is, How to do it | Black Mountain Spirit School of Chinese Kung Fu | Marc Black |
| Saturday | 8:30 AM | DIY Demo | Carrot Room | Roses are Red and Edible too! | Edible flowers (sample of Russian teacakes with Lavender ) | Denise Schreiber |
| Friday | 11:30 AM | DIY Demo | Cucumber Stage | Clearing the Confusion on Functional Beverages and Designing Your Own | Fresh Fix | Carla Addison |
| Friday | 1:30 PM | DIY Demo | Cucumber Stage | Veggie Sushi Rolls Your Kids Will Love to Pack for Lunch | American HealthCare Group | Stephanie Nardiello |
| Friday | 2:30 PM | DIY Demo | Cucumber Stage | nationally known bakers of Salt Rising Bread, the long lost art of bread making in the Appalachian mountains (w/ samples) | Salt Rising Bread | Susan Brown & Jenny Bardwell |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM | DIY Demo | Cucumber Stage | Real Food by the Season: Inspiring Ingredients for Spring | Kathy Parry-Your Real Food Coach | Kathy Parry |
| Saturday | 12:30 PM | DIY Demo | Cucumber Stage | The No-Waste Kitchen | 412 Food Rescue | Hana Uman & Jennifer England |
| Friday | 10:30 AM | DIY Demo | Hot Pepper Stage | Cold-Process Soap Making Demo | Apothecary Muse | Eryn Hughes |
| Friday | 1:30 PM | DIY Demo | Hot Pepper Stage | Edible Wild Mustrooms and How to Prepare Them | Good Mushrooms Bad Mushrooms | John Plischke |
| Saturday | 2:30 PM | DIY Demo | Hot Pepper Stage | How to Make a Simple Tomato Sauce at Home | Carbonara's Ristorante | John Carbonara |
| Friday | 1:30 PM | Farm Science | Tomato Room | Shiitake Mushrooms - The How & Why | Quiet Creek Herb Farm | Rusty Orner |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM | Farm Science | Tomato Room | Lawns are for Losers - How Compost can Change Your Life | Steel City Soils | Jeff Newman |
| Friday | 10:30 AM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | Soil Health for the Home Gardener to the Farmer | The Fertrell Company | Monica Pape |
| Friday | 11:30 AM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | Edible Landscapes: Forging New Opportunities for Budding Horticulturalists | Bidwell Training Center | Gary Baranowski & Bridgette Kennedy-Riske |
| Friday | 12:30 PM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | Organic Certification - Dispelling the Myths, Misconceptions, and Confusion Associated with the Transition to Organic Certification | Baystate Organic Certifiers | Eric Hanson |
| Friday | 1:30 PM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | Botany for Gardeners | California University of PA | Sarah Meiss |
| Friday | 2:30 PM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | Restoring Foodsheds…One Blade of Grass at a Time | Big Horn Ranch | Michael Wright |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | Honeybees are Adapting to Protect Themselves, Mite Biting Behavior | Always Summer Herbs | Jeff Berta |
| Saturday | 1:30 PM | Farm Science | Cucumber Stage | Urban Hen Keeping | Pittsburgh Pro-Poultry People | Jana Thompson |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM | Farm Science | Hot Pepper Stage | Living More Human: Global thinking for Nutrition and Agriculture | More Human | Justin Heinle |
| Saturday | 2:30 PM | Little Locavores | Carrot Room | How to Grow…Hip-hop Style | Fresh Camp | Dee Jay Doc Harrill |
| Friday | 11:30 AM | Little Locavores | Hot Pepper Stage | Kids Cook | Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | Liz Gore |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM | Little Locavores | Hot Pepper Stage | Starting Seedlings from Home and Paper Pot Making | North Hills Community Outreach | Alyssa Crawford |
| Saturday | 12:30 PM | Little Locavores | Hot Pepper Stage | School Assembly in Action: Super Fun Local Food Challenge | American HealthCare Group | Susan Lee |
| Saturday | 1:30 PM | Little Locavores | Hot Pepper Stage | Fighting the Fat: Easy Ways to Substitute "good" fats for bad | Snack Attack | Marcy Fulton |
| Friday | 2:30 PM | Mixology | Broccoli Room | The Confusion of "Local" and "organic" in the wine industry | Palate Partner | Deb Mortillaro |
| Friday | 3:30 PM | Mixology | Broccoli Room | Monongahela Rye and Bringing Terroir Back to Spirits | Wigle Whiskey | Jill Steiner |
| Friday | 11:30 AM | Teacher | Tomato Room | School Gardens: From the Ground Up | Grow Pittsburgh | Molly McHolme & Paul Pagoda |
| Friday | 12:30 PM | Teacher | Tomato Room | Game On! Fighting Childhood Obesity at School | Action For Healthy Kids | Deanna Philpott |
| Friday | 10:30 AM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | Vintage Eating for Vibrant Health | Eat The Butter | Jennifer Calihan |
| Friday | 11:30 AM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | Making Herbal Salves | Quiet Creek Herb Farm | Claire Orner |
| Friday | 12:30 PM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | Local Foods as Medicine: How to find better moods, clear skin and natural thyroid support at your farmers’ market | Health Coach | Ali Shapiro |
| Friday | 1:30 PM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | The Beauty of Essential Oils | Quiet Creek Herb Farm | Claire Orner |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | Reversing Tooth Decay and Controlling Periodontal Disease with Whole Foods and a Healthy Life Style | nutraDentist | Mark Buzzatto |
| Saturday | 12:30 PM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | Sugar, Inflammation and Owning your Nutrition | Health/Nutrition Coach | Courtney Daylong |
| Saturday | 1:30 PM | Whole Body | Broccoli Room | Elimination Diet 101: Using Food as Medicine | Just a Good Life | Julie Cerrone |
| Saturday | 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 1:00 PM | Whole Body | Carrot Room | Experience the Power of the Labyrinth | Live Your Best Life | Dorit Brauer |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM | Whole Body | Cucumber Stage | Homemade Green Cleaning Products - Eliminating Toxins from the Home | Naturally Clean | Rachel & Curtis Radke |
| Friday | 3:30 PM | Farm Science | Tomato Room | Introduction to Crowdfunding for Food and Agriculture Businesses | Kiva / 52nd Street Market | Emily Keebler & Deirdre Kane |
| Saturday | 12:30 PM | Whole Body | Tomato Room | Gut Health | IHB Consulting | Ilona Berkoben, MD |
| Saturday | 2:30 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Tomato Room | Farm Brewing from Ground to Glass | Sprague Farm & Brew Works | Brian Sprague |
| Saturday | 3:30 PM | Whole Body | Tomato Room | Funding a Regional Food System: Advancing Innovations in How We Grow, Move, and Eat Local Food | Idea Foundry | Nicole Kielkucki |
| Friday | 3:30 PM | Consumer Knowledge | Sunflower Room | Yes, I want to help in the labeling effort in PA | GMO Free PA | Karen Stark |
| Saturday | 11:30 AM | PaWAgN | Sunflower Room | Integrating Wellness Programming | American HealthCare Group | Liz Kanche |
| Saturday | 12:30 PM | PaWAgN | Sunflower Room | HealthCare 101 | American HealthCare Group | Erin Hart |
| Saturday | 2:30 PM | Farm Science | Sunflower Room | PASA’s Plans for Building the SOIL | Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) | Franklin Egan |
| Saturday | 3:30 PM | Whole Body | Sunflower Room | The Why and How of Raw Milk Kefir Smoothies & Ice Cream | The Family Cow | Edwi n Shank |
| Saturday | 9:30 AM | DIY Demo | Broccoli Room | Great Starts: Healthful Breakfasts | The Market District | Crystal Baldwin & Laura Maydak MS, RD, LDN |
| Friday | 10:30 AM | Consumer Knowledge | Cucumber Stage | Know Your Farmer - Let's Start A Discussion | Emerald Valley Artisans | Alisa Fava-Fasnacht |
| Saturday | 2:30 PM | DIY Demo | Cucumber Stage | Cheese Tasting & Demo | Kings Pearl Cheese | Dan Jacobs |
