Time is Ticking: Bring Food Home 2017 deadlines!
Posted: September 4, 2017
Categories: Events / GoodFoodBites
Bring Food Home is fast approaching and we are so excited! Have you heard about it and know what it is?
What is Bring Food Home? #BringFoodHome2017
Sustain Ontario, the Eastern Ontario Local Food Conference and local host Just Food will Bring Food Home this October! Local and regional partners are coming together to plan this dynamic conference, where food and farming actors share experience and expertise, build capacity for collaboration and reconciliation within Ontario’s local food networks, and coordinate actions that will lead to sustainable transformations of food systems in Ontario and beyond.
Join 400+ people from Ontario’s food system, who are moving us toward a brighter and more sustainable food future. Tasters, buyers, producers, planners, organizations, and dreamers will gather and collaborate across Ontario to share successes, gain skills, and work together to create an even better food system.
Participants can indulge in three days of inspiring speakers, local tours, engaging panels, hands on workshops, action planning sessions, in addition to networking opportunities, our Halloween Social and our Feast of Local Flavors. Have you seen our program? It’s up on the website ready for you to explore! You can access the sessions, speakers and schedule Here.
Time is ticking and deadlines are near. We wanted to share with you some important dates for Bring Food Home before it’s too late!
Accommodation:
We have a block of rooms reserved at Les Suites for those attending the conference. If you don’t have a place to stay yet, we highly recommend you book sooner then later! Things are filling up as it’s a busy time of the year for everyone. The reservation and group code can be accessed here, just scroll down and find Les Suites here. September 8th will be the final day to book your spot as the rooms will be released after this date.
Early Bird Deadline:
Early Bird Deadline for ticket sales is September 29th! You won’t want to miss it as you save $25-$50 dollars depending on how many days you attend the conference. Purchase your ticket here.
Feast of Local Flavours: Limited Tickets!
The Feast of Local Flavours will be a night of highlighting local food grown within the region, prepared by chefs who support local, sustainable food producers and processors!
The Feast of Local Flavours has traditionally been a mix and mingle, tradeshow or food fair event, with delegates picking up small samples from a range of providers. This year we intend to highlight the full fine dining experience that Eastern Ontario has to offer with a multi-course, plated dinner.
The arrangement of courses will be designed to take the attendees on an historical adventure from indigenous foods appetizer to a desert course featuring the most recent addition to our cultural mosaic, a tea service run by a group of Syrian refugees. Each course will involve collaboration with local producers and local chefs (including both Savour Ottawa and those further afield in Eastern Ontario) along with appropriate local beverages to provide a unique culinary, cultural and historical perspective on Ontario’s food systems. This event promises to truly introduce attendees to the vast range of local foods, and foster linkages and exchanges between local food enterprises.
The full menu details will be announced soon! Tickets are limited as we have limited seating in our venue. If you are eager to come, it’s best to purchase your ticket sooner then later! They can be purchased Here.
Carpooling:
Looking for a way to get to Bring Food Home? You can check out this Carpool link to see if there are others in the same boat! Head to our Bring Food Home website, click on the Go-Eat-Sleep tab and Scroll down to Ride sharing. Here you will find our group car pool link!
Call for Hosts:
We know we haven’t gotten through Bring Food Home 2017 yet, but believe it or not, we’re already thinking about our next conference in 2019! Each conference is hosted in a new location that brings a different perspective on the Ontario food system. Previously, the conferences have been hosted in Waterloo, Peterborough, Windsor, Sudbury and this year in Ottawa. We are hoping to host the conference in Early/Mid fall 2019 If you would like to be the host for 2019, please take a moment to fill out the FORM, we would love to hear from you!
Deadline is September 29th!!