SBN’s Trade Shows
Local Food Trade Shows 2015
Local Specialty Crop Trade Show
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Local Food Trade Show
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
8:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Northeastern University
Local Food Buyers and Producers are Invited to Meet and Begin Doing Business.
The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is offering its 4th Local Food Trade Shows. The 2015 Local Food Trade Shows are 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.
This event is ideal for restaurants and institutional buyers interested in trading with local food suppliers and who desire to buy more locally produced products from growers, fishermen, and value added producers from Massachusetts and New England.
The Specialty Crop Trade Show is made possible by a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MassGrown). Our partners for this event include Northeastern University, Costa Fruit and Produce, Edible Boston, Boston Food and Farm, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) Farm to Institution New England (FINE) Food Solutions New England, Health Care Without Harm, New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA).
Due to the expansion of our program, we are offering two trade shows this year, taking place the same time in the same location. Each trade show will feature different type of exhibitors. Register below (note that there are three different applications, so complete the application that applies to you).
- Specialty Crop vendors for Specialty Crop Trade Show – Register here
- Non-specialty crop vendors for Local Food Trade Show – Register here
- Attendees (Buyers and non-exhibitors) – Register here
Event Schedule:
7:30 am -9:30 am: Set Up
7:30 am -12:00 pm: Registration
8:15 am -9:30 am: Session 1 Workshops
9:45 am -10:00 am: Welcome Address
10:00 am -1:30 pm: Open Floor Trading
11:00 am -12:15 pm: Session 2 Workshops
12:00 pm -1:00 pm: Lunch
Click HERE for a list of 2014 Trade Show Exhibitors and Attendees!
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.*
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 here.
Parking:
There are two visitor parking garages on the Northeastern University campus.
Our 2015 Local Food Trade Show Sponsors
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Our 2015 Local Food Trade Show Partners
- Apex Orchards Shelburne, MA
- Bart’s Homemade and Snow’s Nice Cream Greenfield, MA
- Benito’s Hot Sauce Montpellier, VT
- Blue Sky Produce Phillips, ME
- Cape Ann Fresh Catch* Gloucester, MA
- Cape Cod Select Carver, MA
- Carlson Orchards Harvard, MA
- Country Maple Farms Shelburne, MA
- Corner Stalk Farm Boston, MA
- Cultivating Community Portland, ME
- Dahlicious, LLC Tewksbury, MA
- Doves and Figs Arlington, MA
- El Recreo Estate Coffee Dedham, MA
- Evy Tea LLC Boston, MA
- Franklin County CDC, Western Massachusetts Food Processing Center Greenfield, MA
- Freight Farms Boston, MA
- Green Mountain Harvest Hydroponics Waitsfield, VT
- Herb-in-Fusion Marion, MA
- Honu’s Hearth, LLC Rockport, MA
- Life Force Juice Boston, MA
- Lilac Hedge Farm Berlin, MA
- Kingdom Creamery of Vermot LLC East Hardwick, VT
- Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
- Mc Craes Candies Hyde Park, ME
- Michele’s Gourmet Popcorn Epsom, NH
- Motto Milton, MA
- New Entry Sustainable Farming Project: World PEAS Food Hub* Lowell, MA
- Northern Girl, LLC Caribou, ME
- Prism Energy Services* Quincy, MA
- Q’s Nuts Somerville, MA
- Real Pickles, Berlin, MA
- Red Fire Farm Granby, MA
- Relish The Harvest Chicopee, MA
- Rhapsody Natural Foods Cabot, VT
- Spindrift Beverage Co LLC Andover, MA
- The Farmer’s Cow Lebanon, CT
- The Vermont Switchel Company LLC Cabot, VT
- Tonewood Waitsfield, VT
- Town Farm Gardens LLC Brookfield, MA
- Valicenti Organico Hollis, NH
- Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company and Castleton Crackers South Woodstock, VT
- Vermont Natural Foods Co. Randolph, VT
- Wild Blue Yonder Foods Marblehead, MA
- Zeus Packing, Inc. and Cape Ann Seafood Exchange Gloucester, MA
2014 Trade Show Buyers and Attendees:
- Allandale Farm
- Allston Village Farmers Market
- Appleton Farms Dairy Store
- Aradia Farm, LLC
- Associated Buyers
- Bartlett’s Family Garden & Market
- Basil Tree Catering*
- Baystate Medical Center
- Berkshire Natural LLC*
- Black River Produce
- Boston Medical Center
- Boston Public Market Association
- Boston University Dining Services
- C & C Bakers
- Cape Cod Saltworks Sea Salt*
- Capitol Food Ventures
- Carolyn’s Farm Kitchen
- Center for EcoTechnology
- Codman Square Farmers Market
- Cooley Dickinson Hospital
- Copley Square Farmers Market
- EAF
- East Boston Farmers Market
- Eat at Jumbo’s
- Far From The Tree
- Flavor First Foods, Inc.
- FoodEx/CropCircle Kitchen
- Food For Free
- Formaggio Kitchen
- Fresh Meadows Farm
- Fresh Source Capital, LLC
- Good Egg Marketing*
- Gourmet @ Work
- Gourmet Caterers
- Gourmet Guru
- Hackleboro Orchards
- Haley House*
- Health Care Without Harm
- Hilton Hotels
- Holly Hill Farm
- How On Earth
- Hyde Park Main Streets
- Johnny’s Luncheonette
- Julia Shanks Food Consulting
- Just Add Cooking
- LaddCo Hospitality
- Ladybug Farms
- Lettuce Be Local
- Life Alive
- Locally*
- Long Wind Farm
- Madrugada Farm
- Mass Farm to School
- Mass Growth Capital Corporation
- Mission Hill Farmer’s Market
- Natural Food Exchange
- Nectar & Green
- New Economy Coalition
- New England Aquarium*
- North Country Farmers Cooperative, Inc
- Northbound Ventures, LLC
- Northeastern University Dining Services
- Notre Dame du Lac Assisted Living
- Nutrition Food Labels
- Oceanic Innovation
- Project Bread
- Rebecca’s Cafe
- Red Tomato, Inc.
- Riverwoods at Exeter
- Share Harvest LLC
- Smolak Farms
- Sodexo @ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Spaulding Nursing & Therapy Center West Roxbury
- Sustainable Edge
- Ten Tables Jamaica Plain
- The Natural Grocer, Inc.
- The Williams Agency*
- Tower Hill Botanic Garden
- Tropical Foods
- Undiscovered Kitchen
- Unidine at Beverly Hospital
- Vicki Lee’s
- Victory Programs’ ReVision Urban Farm
- Volante Farms
- Whole Foods Market
- Winston Flowers (gift crate department)
- Women’s Lunch Place
- Yankee Alliance
*Indicates SBN Member
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. This Trade Show is sponsored by the Massachusetts Department for Agricultural Resources. Exhibition booths are free for specialty crop farmers and other specialty crop producers.
