Sasha McNicoll manning Sustain Ontario’s booth 

Cute idea to stick Sustain Ontario logos on apples. 

Noelle Munaretto holding down the fort at the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance booth.

Have you hugged a farmer today? Jodi Lastman Superstar with Cookstown Greens legendary farmer (photographer, writer, sage, etc) David Cohlmeyer.

Local Food Plus helping people understand the relationship between how we spend our money and what ends up on store shelves. 

Local Food Plus from a more Corporate perspective.

Jeff Connell from St’ John’s Bakery. 

Dawn Woodward from Evelyn’s Crackers throwing down an amazing snack–each bite of her Sawbuck crackers with Monforte Cheese and a dollop of jam tasted like a piece of pie.

Frontline food fighters from Kawartha Ecological Growers: Farmers Laura Boyd and Mark Trealout

Producer/Chef toast: Milan Bizjak of Bizjak farms and Chef Donna Dooher of Mildred’s Temple Kitchen.

Forget whose station this was on but thought it was cute. 

Dark picture of Beast Restaurant owner and Slow Food Toronto Steering Co. Member Chef Scott Vivien chatting w/Daniel Broadhagen of Savour Stratford 

Eco-preneuer, Actionist, Chocosolista and Slow Food Steering Co. Member caught in a rare moment w/a cel as he coordinates sound for amazing musical program 

Pedestrian/Spacing activist and owner of La Palette Restaurant Shamez Amlani loving the energy  

I try to leave the food photography to people with actual cameras, but Splendido’s 3 layers of pork had 100’s whispering this afternoon

Visitors to most Toronto Food events will recognize an issue of Edible Toronto Magazine under food forward patron’s arms and the Requisite Fiesta Farms ad on the back. This one is particularly special as it’s about a project called Grow for the Stop that sees produce from The New Farm in Creemore sold at Fiesta with 10% of the price going to important food community The Stop.     

A rare public shot of (seemingly) tireless food advocate, Chefs/Producer Pairings Coordinator, Slow Food Steering Committee member Chef Joshna Maharaj with her brother whose name I don’t want to butcher because I was several glasses deep into Southbrookwine, Norm Hardy wine, Waupoos Cider and several beer products when I took this.

On a mission to bottle local greatness, Ontario’s own is kicking ass and taking names. 

Farmer in the city, Milan Bizjak gets caught juxtaposed against some Brickworks graffiti. It’s worth noting that my kids think Milan looks like his peaches.