Food for Thought Festival

Come celebrate local food and products at REAP Food Group’s 14^th Annual Food for Thought festival!
Taking place alongside the Dane County Farmers’ Market, this popular event offers opportunities for the whole family to taste, learn and connect with our local food system..... for free!
The festival will feature booths from over 40 organizations, farms and restaurants as well as an appetizing local foods tent, cooking and tasting demos, kids activities and its first ever Food Camp.

(New this year) Food Camp!
Opportunities to participate, taste, and learn on topics like beekeeping, backyard chickens, cooking with veggies, composting, building a mini hoophouse, cheesemaking, and more... Click here for a full schedule!

 Chef Showdown
A not-to-be missed experience where area chefs are provided with a collection of the freshest mystery ingredients provided by the adjacent Dane County Farmers’ Market from which they are asked to prepare a dish on the spot.

Local Food Tent
Pick up tasty and locally-sourced breakfast and lunch dishes from Buy Fresh Buy Local program partner chefs.
Click here to see the scrumptious details!

Interactive Exhibitor Booths
Expect displays by dozens of organizations, farms, restaurants & others working to promote a healthy food system.

Kid's Activity Tent
Chickens! Kids can feed, pet, and meet chicken friends.
Colleen's Art Wagon will have a variety of great food-centered kids activities like edible jewelry making.
Veggie Stamps - help decorate the kids tent with big stamps of your favorite veggies!
Pickle Making! Kids can bring home their own batch of refrigerator pickles.
Face painting and so much more!

All volunteers will be invited to our pre-festival reception on Friday afternoon in the Graze courtyard, and as a special incentive for set-up crew and clean-up crew, we’re offering a voucher for $3 at the Food Tent. (Yum!)