Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm & 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm & 5:00pm

Cost:
Free Demonstrations & Activities. Food & beverages available for purchase.

No Registration required.

Event details:
Come to The Process for the ultimate Local Food Week Party! Families and folks from all over the region won't want to miss this celebration of local food! Come hang out with us to enjoy some delicious food & beverages and great conversation.

Watch demonstrations by some of your favorite local food producers and sample their products. We’re taking over the whole parking lot in front of The Process so bring your lawn chair and stay a while.

The Local Food Week Party co-hosts include:

• Josh’s Jungle & The Process - Canning Demonstrations & Tastings

• Hoffman Certified Organics - Brats, Wings & Photos with Ben

• Merkat Moon Herbals & Earthworks - Mocktails & Kombuchas

• McComBees Apiary - Watch the Bees & Honey Tasting

• Rowdy Rooster Artisan Meats - Charcuterie Tastings and Demo

Learn more about each of these host’s offerings & activities on their individual event pages in the Local Food Week calendar of events.

For more information, email jcockram349@gmail.com, or call (260)387-8446

Travel Tip:
 The Process is located in the Lima-Plank strip mall off of Old Lima Road right in Huntertown. The Local Food Week Party will be set-up in the parking lot.

Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

Cost:
Free Demonstrations & Activities. Food & beverages available for purchase.

No Registration required.

Event details:
At the Local Food Week Party at The Process, Brandon Gump of Rowdy Rooster Artisan Meats will be sampling and selling our artisan charcuterie meats alongside our farmer friends at Hoffman Certified Organics. Bring a chair, wear your sunscreen and let’s taste & talk about artisan meats!

Come to The Process for the ultimate Local Food Week Party! Families and folks from all over the region won't want to miss this celebration of local food! Come hang out with us to enjoy some delicious food & beverages and great conversation.

Watch demonstrations by some of your favorite local food producers and sample their products. We're taking over the whole parking lot in front of The Process so bring your lawn chair and stay a while.

Travel Tip:
The Process is located in the Lima-Plank strip mall off of Old Lima Road right in Huntertown. The Local Food Week Party will be set-up in the parking lot.

Rowdy Rooster Artisan Meats
At Rowdy Rooster we produce artisan style charcuterie and salami. We have a passion for the old world preparation of local, responsibly raised, heritage breeds of pork. Our production facility is located in Churubusco, Indiana. We source whole livestock directly from the farm. We use Berkshire hogs from Wood Farms and Mangalitsa hogs from Hoffman Certified Organics.

Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm & 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm & 5:00pm

Cost:
Free Demonstrations & Activities. Food & beverages available for purchase.

No Registration required.

Event details:
At the Local Food Week Party at The Process, Ben Hoffman of Hoffman Certified Organics will be cooking up our certified organic chicken wings and brats to go along with The Process's pickles! You'll want to bring a chair and wear your favorite bucket hat to chat and take selfies with Ben as he debuts his chicken truck.

Come to The Process for the ultimate Local Food Week Party! Families and folks from all over the region won't want to miss this celebration of local food! Come hang out with us to enjoy some delicious food & beverages and great conversation.

Watch demonstrations by some of your favorite local food producers and sample their products. We're taking over the whole parking lot in front of The Process so bring your lawn chair and stay a while.

Travel Tip:
The Process is located in the Lima-Plank strip mall off of Old Lima Road right in Huntertown. The Local Food Week Party will be set-up in the parking lot.

Hoffman Certified Organics
Hoffman Certified Organics is a local USDA Certified Organic farm located in Huntertown, Indiana. We are the only USDA certified organic farm in Indiana specializing in pasture-raised certified organic poultry. Hoffman Certified Organics is a family company run by Huntertown native Ben Hoffman. With the growing demand for pure organic meat products in the US, Hoffman Organics devised a much needed plan to provide our region with local 100% USDA Certified Organic chickens.

Local Food Week Sponsor

Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

Cost:
Free Demonstrations & Activities. Food & beverages available for purchase.

No Registration required.

Event details:
At the Local Food Week Party, The Process will offer a canning demo to teach you how we make pickles. Josh Cockram, the owner of The Process and artisan food producer of Josh’s Jungle will share our canning techniques and some tips and tricks that we have learned through our success and mistakes. 

Come to The Process for the ultimate Local Food Week Party! Families and folks from all over the region won't want to miss this celebration of local food! Come hang out with us to enjoy some delicious food & beverages and great conversation.

Watch demonstrations by some of your favorite local food producers and sample their products. We're taking over the whole parking lot in front of The Process so bring your lawn chair and stay a while.

For more information, email jcockram349@gmail.com or call (260)387-8446.

Travel Tip:
The Process is located in the Lima-Plank strip mall off of Old Lima Road right in Huntertown. The Local Food Week Party will be set-up in the parking lot.

Josh’s Jungle & The Process
Josh's Jungle is our urban farm and canning business. The Process is a local only grocery store featuring food and goods from the area.

The Process features products from 30+ local vendors in the region. Our seasonal produce and fruits are all locally grown. We have local honey, syrup, breads, flours, baking mixes, meat, jams, jellies, fermented foods, pickled foods, and loose-leaf tea. Regular store hours are Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 7pm, Sunday 12 to 5pm.

Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

Cost:
Free Demonstrations & Activities. Food & beverages available for purchase.

No Registration required.

Event details:
At the Local Food Week Party at The Process, McComBees Apiaries will offer a wide range of honey and beeswax based products including raw honey, honeycomb, creamed honey, beeswax and beeswax candles. We'll have samples of our award winning creamed honey and raw honey to taste. We'll also bring our display of an enclosed hive to see if you can find the queen bee!  Bring your sunhat and curiosity because I love to chat about bees and beekeeping!

Come to The Process for the ultimate Local Food Week Party! Families and folks from all over the region won't want to miss this celebration of local food! Come hang out with us to enjoy some delicious food & beverages and great conversation.

Watch demonstrations by some of your favorite local food producers and sample their products. We're taking over the whole parking lot in front of The Process so bring your lawn chair and stay a while.

Travel Tip:
The Process is located in the Lima-Plank strip mall off of Old Lima Road right in Huntertown. The Local Food Week Party will be set-up in the parking lot.

McComBees Apiaries
Your source for locally produced natural hive products and Northeast Indiana bred-bees. My objective is to provide local, natural, and sustainable honey products while also raising bees in an ethical manner. To that end, I only sell honey, nucs, and queens that are produced in my Northeast Indiana apiaries.

I accomplish high productivity with fewer colonies by prioritizing quality over quantity. I spend a lot of time out in the field, monitoring progress, managing growth, and addressing potential issues. Hands-on experience and a Purdue University agriculture degree let me put the most effective management methods into practice to keep my bees healthy and thriving. My goal is to provide excellent customer service. Beekeeping is my passion, and I appreciate your support.

Dates & times:

• Friday, July 26 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Saturday, July 27 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm to 4:00pm

• Monday, July 29 - CLOSED

• Tuesday, July 30 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Wednesday, July 31 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Thursday, August 1 – 10:00am to 8:00pm

• Friday, August 2 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Saturday, August 3 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Cost:
Mention the Food Hunt for FREE Individual Admission during Local Food Week July 26-August 4! Regular Admission: $7/Adults, $5/Youth Ages 3-17, Free 2 & under. $1 Admission every Thursday from 5-8 pm. No registration required.

Event details:
Fun for family and friends, enjoy a self-guided tour at your local public garden. During Local Food Week, enjoy a scavenger food hunt to learn about local food as well as food from around the globe. Learn about how important pollinators are to our food system and see honeybees at work in an on-site Observation Bee Hive! The summer/fall theme is "Raise a Glass!" celebrating 40 years for the Conservatory.

Also, check out the Conservatory Shop featuring a variety of local vendors, and stop by Conjure Coffee featuring local ingredients, fresh pastries, and hand-crafted beverages available for purchase.

Discover all there is to see and do at your local public garden! For more information call (260)427-6440 or email ffbbc@cityoffortwayne.org.

Travel Tip:
Upon entry to Conservatory, the admission desk validates tickets for FREE parking across from the entrance at Calhoun Street and Jefferson Boulevard in the Civic Center Parking Garage.

Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory
The Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory is an oasis in the heart of downtown Fort Wayne providing a unique attraction that is always in season.

Guests of the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory experience multiple garden environments beginning in the Showcase House with its four seasonal exhibits. From there, guests enter the multi-level Tropical House, where lush foliage thrives against the backdrop of a cascading waterfall. Wrapping up their visit, guests explore the quiet beauty of the Desert House.

As a treasured asset of the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department, the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory is dedicated to providing inspiration, education, and entertainment while promoting the restorative beauty of its gardens.

The Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory boasts over 24,500 square feet of indoor garden space with additional outdoor gardens featuring scenic vistas, shaded pathways, and zonal trees and shrubs. It is one of the few conservatories in the world located in a downtown urban setting.

Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm to 3:00pm

• Saturday, August 3 – 12:00pm to 3:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm to 3:00pm

Cost:
Free

Pre-registration requested, but not required.
Contact Diana Hart at poplarvillagegardens@gmail.com to register.

Event details:
Bring your family to enjoy a child-friendly guided garden tour and education activities in our urban food forest. Come see how food grows and learn how the Fort Wayne’s Poplar neighborhood is growing food for their neighbors. Bring a picnic to enjoy in the garden. 

For more information, email Diana Hart at poplarvillagegardens@gmail.com, or text (260) 409-5901.

Travel Tip:
Our driveway and parking are along the railroad tracks at the intersection of Walnut and Miner Streets.

Poplar Village Gardens
Poplar Village Gardens is a 3-acre urban food forest building community by growing food together.  Produce grown on site is donated to neighborhood residents and Miss Virginia's Mission House. We focus on growing and living sustainably and host a Forward Indiana community food pantry.

Local Food Week Sponsor

Dates & times:

• Sunday, July 28 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 12:00pm to 5:00pm

Cost:
Free Demonstrations & Activities. Food & beverages available for purchase.

No Registration required.

Event details
At the Local Food Week Party at The Process, Merkat Moon Herbals & Earthworks be serving up delicious herbal mocktails made with our tea blends, herbal infused simple syrups and tonics, and featuring Lunar Infusions kombucha as well!

Come to The Process for the ultimate Local Food Week Party! Families and folks from all over the region won't want to miss this celebration of local food! Come hang out with us to enjoy some delicious food & beverages and great conversation.

Watch demonstrations by some of your favorite local food producers and sample their products. We're taking over the whole parking lot in front of The Process so bring your lawn chair and stay a while.

Travel Tip:
The Process is located in the Lima-Plank strip mall off of Old Lima Road right in Huntertown. The Local Food Week Party will be set-up in the parking lot.

MerKat Moon Herbals & Earthworks
MerKat Moon Herbals & Earthworks was established in 2020 (Formerly as MerKat Creations & Apothecary) with one mission: to bridge the gap between the people and the ancestral knowledge of herbal remedies. We craft every one of our remedies with the highest quality Ingredients possible; sourcing as local as possible, and ALWAYS from small families & farmers FIRST. We are passionate about Building a Community; centered around working with the Traditional Herbal Remedies that our ancestors used for centuries, and We are inspired to teach the people in our community how to create their own Herbal blends using these fundamental principles.  The entire foundation of this mission, is built on our love of the medicines all around us, given by our Creator.

Our commitment to Connection, Community, Excellence, and Quality inspired us in the beginning and continues to drive us today. We pride ourselves on offering not only a superior product and experience;  but even more so in the long-term relationships we’ve built with our community.

Merkat Moon Herbals & Earthworks is a small, LGBTQIA+ and Woman Owned Business that specializes in all organic herbal teas, tinctures, balms, oils and butters.

Dates & times:

• Saturday, July 27 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Sunday, July 28 – 11:00am to 3:00pm

• Saturday, August 3 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 11:00am to 3:00pm

Cost:
Free

No Registration required.

Event details:
Hot, ready to eat smoked pulled pork and brisket! We also have a variety of locally raised pork and beef ready to take home and cook as well as many different snack sticks, summer sausage, and beef jerky! Hot food served all day! Enjoy samples of our special products, with locally produced food/beverages available for purchase.

For more information, email porkncleaver@gmail.com, or call (260)508-8383.

Travel Tip:
We are located at the corner of Indiana SR 9 and US 33.

Pork 'N Cleaver
We are a butcher shop and retail store selling only locally raised pork and beef. We do all of the processing in our shop. All of the pork and beef is raised without hormones and all of our meat is dye free and preservative free.

Local Food Week Sponsor

Dates & times:

• Saturday, July 27 – 9:00am to 5:00pm

• Sunday, July 28 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

• Saturday, August 3 – 9:00am to 5:00pm

• Sunday, August 4 – 10:00am to 5:00pm

Cost:
Free

No Registration required

Event details:
Taste a variety of hand made delights made with local fruits and vegetables, honey, and farm fresh eggs! Our Sample Bar is open during the Farmer's Market on Saturday, and continues for the rest of the weekend!

For more information, email plowshares.localfoodhub@gmail.com or call (425)213-7516

Travel Tip:
Plowshares at the Market is located in the East Hall of Union Street Market on the historic Electric Works campus in downtown Fort Wayne.

Plowshares at the Market in Union Street Market
Plowshares Food Hub is an agricultural cooperative that brings producers and buyers of local food together to make the healthy, local choice the easy choice.

Our year-round produce market in Union Street Market at Electric Works called Plowshares at the Market makes fresh produce, other farm products such as eggs, meat and dairy, and prepared food products available seven days a week.

Plowshares Mobile Market offers pop-up markets in neighborhoods where fresh produce is hard to find throughout the farm market season.

The cooking class and food tastings are offered to make eating fresh and healthy easy for all. Plowshares Markets accept SNAP/EBT and Fresh Connect produce prescription cards as well as cash and credit/ debit cards.