Tuesday, March 5, 2019
8:30 AM to 3:00 PM at the Curry Student Center, Northeastern University
Local Food Buyers and Producers are Invited to Meet and Begin Doing Business.
Program Schedule and Workshop Details
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is offering our 8th Local Food Trade Show. The 2019 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.
Local Specialty Crop Trade Show
Exhibitors will 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. This Trade Show is sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources. Exhibition booths are 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. Exhibition booths are $150.00. *$25 Discount for SBN Members
Who should attend?
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.*
2019 Sponsors
2019 Specialty Crop Vendors
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- Soil Grown Microgreens
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- Delicious + handmade beverages
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- Probiotic Fermented Vegetables
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- Mushrooms & extracts
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- Organic cultured veggies
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- Mushrooms, make up and more.
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- Traditional pickled items from Northeast farms
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- Lettuce, spinach, chard, herbs & more
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- Organic produce
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- Specialty Herbs, Syrups, Tonics
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- Wise Mouth, Delicious drinks inspired by Chinese health traditions
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- Pleasant Valley Gardens
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- Sugar Bobs Finest Kind Syrup
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- World Farmers
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- Freight Farms
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- We Grow Microgreens
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- Kitchen Garden Farm
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- Verrill Farm
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- ifarm LLC, Medicinal and culinary herbs
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- Five College Farms
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- Dosha Bar
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- Atlas Farm
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- Sanctuary Herbs of Providence
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- Mycoterra Mushrooms
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- Fat Moon Mushrooms
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- Many Graces Flowers
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- Beckah’s Bangin’ Butter
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- Delectable Desires Pastries and Cakes
2019 Local Food Vendors
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- Yogurt, Buttermilk and Kefir
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- Organic Ghee
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- Transparent Distribution System
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- Meal Mantra, Inventive Curry Sauces
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- Natural Mix of Nuts and Oats
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- Traditional and Organic Dried Pasta
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- Gluten Free Crakers
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- Edible Bakeable Cookie Dough
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- Herbal Wellness Teas
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- Vermont Tortilla Co.
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- Carolyn’s Farm Kitchen
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- Little Acre Gourmet Foods
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- Loco Coffee Company
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- Haymaker beverages sports drinks
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- Valicenti Pasta Farm
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- Sacred Cow Granola (A Division of AB Munroe Dairy)
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- Lef Farms
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- Mugger’s Marrow LLC
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- Yum on the run! All natural Japanese inspired snack.
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- South Quabbin Food Company LLC dba Jay’s Wicked
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- Seaview Farm, Rockport, MA
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- B-Organic
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- MOJO Cold Brewed Coffee
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- Blackwater Mustard
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- Dosha Bar
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- Maple Valley Creamery
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- UPrise Foods
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- The Local Scoop /Cape Cod Pops
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- Popette of Pendulum
2019 Buyers & Attendees
88 Acres
ALCHEMISTA
Allandale Farm
Antonia’s
Associated Buyers
Birch Hill
Boston College
Boston Public Market
Brookline Farmers’ Market
Cambridge Naturals
Cape Ann Farmers Market
Center for Ecotechnology
Chartwells / Northeastern University
City Compost
Costa Fruit and Produce
Cranberry Vine Catering & Events
Debra’s Natural Gourmet
Dirt and Wine LLC
Down Island Farm LLC
East Boston Farmers Market
Eat Your Heart Out Catering
Evergreens
Farm Credit East
Farm Direct Coop
The Farm Wise Market
Flik Hospitality
Fork on a Road
Future Chefs
Groundwork Lawrence
Harbinger
Hannaford Supermarkets
Harvard University
KVH Kosher
Leverett Village Co-op
Marathon Staffing
Market 2day
Market & Cafe at Emery Farm
Mass Farmers Markets
Nathalie Wine Bar
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Oak Sq Farmers Market
Oat Shop
OM Cookies LLC
Perkins School for the Blind
PVGrows Investment Fund/Western Mass Food Processing Center
Revere Farmers Market
Rita’s Hospitality Group
Serenade Chocolatier
Sid Wainer & Son Specialty Foods
Sodexo USA
Sodexo at Partners HealthCare
South Boston Farmers Market
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Wild Oats Market
Wakefield Farmers Market
Waltham Fields Community Farm
Yankee Alliance
2019 Partners
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- Black Earth Compost
Getting There:
The SBN Local Food Trade Show will take place in the Curry Student Center of Northeastern University. The building is located on the Main Campus. There are two visitor parking garages on the Northeastern University campus.
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