Thank You for Local Food Week 2023

We are so grateful for everyone who contributed their valuable time, talents and resources to organize Local Food Week this year. Their dedication and support for our local food community and the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network, made this 10-day region-wide local food celebration possible.

Our 2023 Local Food Week Hosts

Thank you to each of our Local Food Week hosts for opening your farms and businesses to visitors and sharing how you grow and produce local food and prepare delicious food and beverages with local ingredients.

3 Rivers Natural Grocery
Berry Hill Farm 
Beyond Able Commissary Kitchen
BroxonBerry
Cedar Creek Meats
Cordes Berry Farm
Creation Celebration
Eel River Bison Ranch 
E Brewing Company at Esterline Farms
Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory
Foods Alive
The Fox Den & DeCamp Gardens
Hardy’s Farm Market LLC
Hawkins Family Farm 
Health Food Shoppe 
Hoffman Certified Organics & Rowdy Rooster
Ivy Urban Farm at Ivy Tech Community College 
Johnnie Mae Farm
Lone Tree Farms
Lunar Infusions Kombucha Brewery
Market Wagon at Ambrosia Orchard
Parkview Greenhouse & Learning Kitchen
Plowshares at the Market in Union Street Market
Poplar Village Gardens with Uncle Doc’s
Purdue University Fort Wayne: FRIENDS of the University Pantry &
School of Education Urban Garden & Glenn’s Natural Honey
Rose Avenue Education Farm 
teds beerhall
The Process & Josh’s Jungle
Three Rivers Distilling Company
True Kimchi 
Vineland Reserve Winery

Our 2023 Local Food Week Sponsors

Thank you to each of our Local Food Week Sponsors. Your commitment and generous support for Local Food Week, our local food community and the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network makes this event possible

Our Local Food Week 2023 Committee and Vendors

Thank you to Denise Hoff, our dedicated Local Food Week Committee Chair, for all her time and effort planning and managing this region-wide event and to her committee, Amber Bouthot, Kathy Wehrle, Michele Schnelker and Janet Katz for their countless hours organizing and promoting this 10-day celebration. 

Thank you to Just Sue Graphic Design for their engaging and informative design for our Local Food Week 2023 Companion Guide (See below). We received rave reviews on this booklet from both our Local Food Week hosts and participants.

Thank you to Grapevine Local Food Marketing for developing and creating the dynamic on-line Local Food Week Calendar of Events that seamlessly provides all the details for over 80 tours and events host over this 10-day celebration.

Our Community

Thank you to our enthusiastic supporters and followers on social media and in our local food community for helping to share news about Local Food Week and encouraging their friends and neighbors to participate.

Thank you to Amber Broxon & Justin Miller from BroxonBerry, Jain Young from Plowshares at the Market at Union Street Market, Carry Zeigler from Lone Tree Farms, Sarah Claycomb from The Health Food Shoppe and Michele Schelker from the Parkview Health Youth Well-being Team and Kathy Wehrle, Board member of the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network for helping to promote Local Food Week by participating in recent media interviews, some of which are listed below.

Sarah Highlen