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    Cream of theCrop
                                                                local foods
                                                               MARKETPLACE

               local foods
             MARKETPLACE                    FEAST! Local Foods Marketplace - Best in Show Awards

                                              We may be biased, but when you walk the FEAST! exhibit hall, you’re seeing the cream
                                              of the crop—businesses built from grassroots, giving back to the community. Just for
                                               fun, though, we select some stand-outs every year. The 2019 winners were...

          People’s Choice:                                        Most Inspiring Social
          CannonBelles Cheese                                     Benefit: Ferndale Market
          With delicious cheese, fun                              Ferndale Market donates
          holstein merch and enthusiastic   Most Innovative Local   turkeys to the food bank   Most Engaging Booth:
          customer service, it’s not   Sourcing: Siren Shrub Co.   every year for Thanksgiving   Sailor Mercy
          surprising that this business,   A first-time FEAST! vendor   and Christmas. They also   Attending for the first time
          owned by a trio of tireless   in 2019, these beverage   donate gift boxes and gift   in 2019, they wowed us with
          women, also runs a coffee &   concentrates boast flavors   certificates to organizations   a summery-feeling booth
          ice cream shop and is soon   from local farms, with     for special events and are   full of silk blooms that drew
          opening their own cheese-   authentic messaging that    involved in school efforts to   the eye and inspired visitors
          making facility. They’re going   treats farmer suppliers like   connect kids to farms.   to learn more about their
          places—constantly!          partners.                                               elderberry syrup.

                                      Nicci Sylvester Award:
                                      In memory of Nicci Sylvester, founder of Tonic Local Kitchen and Juice Bar, a new award was
                                      created to honor restaurants championing and purchasing from local farms. Two awards were
                                      presented—one to Nicci’s business partner and successor, Tim Wiste, and the other to Erik
                                      Kleven and Jennifer Becker, co-owners of Bleu Duck Kitchen.

                       Ready to Grow Award from the Minnesota                   Something Special from Wisconsin™ Award:
                       Dept. of Agriculture: Sara’s Tipsy Pies                  Out of the Kitchen

               Stay tuned to FEAST! social media for a virtual People’s Choice vote this year at the close of the festival, Sunday, Dec. 6, with prizes to be announced!

                                       /localfeastnetwork       @Local_Feast         LocalFeast

           Photos by Ashley Aukes of Beruck Studios                                                          local-feast.org  27

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