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Local Food Trade Shows

The Local Food Trade Show is designed to facilitate connections and stimulate business relationships between producers and wholesale buyers of local food, with a focus on specialty crop food products in Massachusetts.

SBN hosted our 9th Annual Local Food & Specialty Crop Trade Show (Program and Schedule) at Northeastern University on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Photos of the event are available on Facebook. Check back for updates on future events!

Local Specialty Crop Trade Show 
Exhibitors include New England based farmers, produce distributors and local specialty crop producers (products made with 50% or more specialty crops also qualify). Please view the USDA definition of specialty crops here. Crops must be produced in the U.S. or a U.S. territory. The 2020 Trade Show was sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. Exhibition booths were free for specialty crop farmers and other specialty crop producers.

Local Food Trade Show
This trade show is open to all non-specialty crop food producers including meat and dairy farms, fisheries, baked goods and other added value producers. 

Who attends?
Any wholesale buyers, who are interested in purchasing Massachusetts or New England-produced food items. These buyers can be supermarkets, co-ops, restaurants, hotels, institutions, schools, food processors in search of ingredients, distributors, or anyone else interested in local purchasing options.*This event is intended for commercial buyers, not individual consumers.*

2020 Sponsors

 

2020 Specialty Crop Vendors

2020 Local Food Vendors

2020 Buyers

Distributors

Restaurants & Caterers

Retail 

Farmer’s Markets

Institutions (Colleges, hospitals)

Non-Profits and Other