A celebration of local food, the farmers who produce it and the people who serve it up fresh daily.
FRESH food - 6:30 p.m.
Taste samples from local, independent restaurants, featuring ingredients from farms within 150 miles of St. Louis.
FRESH film - 8:00 p.m.
Watch FRESH the award-winning film that follows farmers, thinkers and business people who are reinventing our food system.
FRESH perspective - after the film
Meet local farmers, activists and restaurateurs who are bringing the local food movement home to St. Louis.
FRESHfest benefits Operation Back Pack, a program of Operation Food Search that provides weekend meals for St. Louis city schoolchildren who would otherwise go without. In lieu of admission fees, FRESHfest guests are urged to bring a non-perishable food item donation to support the program.
Operation Back Pack Shopping List (PDF) >>
Guests who donate to Operation Back Pack will receive a complimentary bottle of locally-made, eco-friendly Herb’n Maid Herbal Wood Cleaner and will be entered in a door prize drawing.
AmerenUE’s Pure Power will offset the electricity used during the event with renewable energy credits – a simple act that will prevent the release of 1,583 pounds of CO2 into our Missouri atmosphere.
Replenishing the Earth will help make FRESHfest a zero-waste event.
