Feast of Fields

You’d have to stick your face in the dirt and pull the carrot out by your teeth to get more local that this.

Feast of Fields is a locavore’s dream. Dine right next to your farmer’s field while local top chefs tantalize you with the most scrumptious and fresh fare they can create.

It’s a slow food movement that’s picking up steam across the country. Started as a way to connect farmers and the people who love whole foods, it’s far from a dusty picnic in the patch. Picture wandering through a farmer’s yard (the host farm changes every year) with a linen napkin in one hand and a wine glass in the other. You saunter up to a table featuring garlic scapes or some strangely shaped heirloom tomato and the chef/grower/farmer waxes on about the delicacy as you nibble away at perfection.

Each Feast of Fields is as different as the environs that spawn it. For example, in Kelowna’s mid August event, you can expect to see award-winning chefs presenting dishes featuring fresh peaches, honey and local game all paired with more wine than you can shake a carrot stick at. *Hint* take the shuttle bus.

And when you need to walk off the samples, see how the host farmer’s leeks are coming in or compare your wine blush to the apples blushing in the orchard. You can even measure out how local your food is in your own footstep!

It’s not just about being hyper-local.  It’s about building that intimate relationship with your food. You know, like getting down and dirty while bobbing for carrots that are still in the ground. 

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Feast in a field near you:

Feast of Fields Okanagan - August 12, 2012

Feast of Fields Metro Vancouver - Sept. 9, 2012

Feast of Fields Metro Toronto - Sept. 9, 2012

Feast of Fields Calgary (note, not in a field but still local) - Sept. 16, 2012