Slow Food in the Tetons brings the community together to celebrate local food with the annual Farm to Fork Festival!
Slow Food in the Tetons is beloved by those in Jackson for their mission to grow our local and regional sustainable food economy by supporting “good, clean and fair food”. This year their annual Farm to Fork Festival is back, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. The festival, taking place at the Center for the Arts, is jam packed with a little something for everyone, both kids and adults alike!
The festival will kick off Friday with a Local Harvest Lunch at Glorietta and a Foraging and Farming in the Tetons Dinner. Saturday includes various workshops including pizza making with the kids, cheese making, story telling with Eastern Shashone and Northern Arapaho Tribal Elders, cider tasting, local spirits craft cocktail class and many more! Then cap off your Saturday with a keynote presentation from chef Sean Sherman. The weekend will conclude Sunday with a free community lunch where locals can gather around the table to enjoy good company and healthy, local food. Make sure to check out the full schedule of events for ticketed and free workshops through out the weekend!
“This festival is a place for the community to come together to celebrate the harvest and engage in our local food system” says Executive Director, Scott Steen. Steen is especially excited for the highlighted Saturday keynote presentation from Sean Sherman on revitalizing Native American Cuisine. Sherman is well known across the country for his efforts to inform, educate and reclaim an important long buried culinary culture. His book The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen has received many accolades including a James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook. Tickets are $47 and the presentation will take place at The Center Theater on Saturday at 6 p.m. with a reception beforehand serving local bites and drinks, followed by a meet and greet and book signing. Tickets will include the presentation, food and one drink.
For a more hands on experience of indigenous foods, join Sherman for A Tasting of Pre-colonial Ingredients where you will be introduced to traditional wild foraged ingredients that were commonplace in the diets of Indigenous peoples. This ticketed event will take place Saturday at 2 p.m.
If you are looking for something fun to do with the kiddos, check out the From Italy to the Tetons for Kids! Pizza Making with Bona Furtuna on Saturday at 11 a.m. Kids will get to learn from Li Corn, previously the Pastry Chef at Persephone Bakery, about Italian Heritage and Italian products and practices while creating their own pizzas with a mix of Bona Furtuna’s award winning organic products and local toppings!
The weekend culminates Sunday with a few free events, so make sure to register! At the Rise and Brine event at 11 a.m. you can learn how to pickle and ferment your fresh local veggies to last through the winter season! Participants will prepare these veggies to keep and to donate to those who are food insecure in the Jackson community. The Community Lunch will follow, which has become a beloved tradition of the Farm to Fork Festival over the years. Steen hopes that everyone comes out of this weekend with a revitalized relationship to food, health, our environment and local community!
