Local Food Trade Shows


Wednesday, March 4, 2020
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.

 

Please view last year’s program to learn more about this event.

 

 

The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) is offering our 9th Local Food Trade Show. The 2020 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.*

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