Eat Local Events

City Market’s annual Harvest Celebration gathers together as many local farmers and producers as we can fit under our big white tent. On top of lots of delicious samples, we will have prize giveaways, face painting, henna art, kids’ activities, and more! Mayfly, an old-time duo from Montpelier, will provide music. Free and fun for the entire family.

Crack open the doors of a school cafeteria to see the fantastic changes being made to school lunch in Burlington, a national Farm-to-School model. Eat a delicious, free meal featuring Shepherd’s pie with pasture-raised Vermont beef, Shelburne Farms macaroni and cheese, salad bar with local veggies and pickles, and apple crisp.  Find out more about the Burlington School Food Project and ways to get involved.

(Registration required)

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A celebration of local beers and local cheeses – yum. A dozen or so of Vermont’s finest brews each perfectly painstakingly paired with a local artisan cheese.  You love beer, and you love cheese, so what’s not to love about this event?

Colorful winter squash are tasty, rich in vitamins, versatile in the kitchen and available from local farmers all winter long.  But which squash should you buy? In this City Market class taste and learn about the different varieties with Vermont cookbook author Andrea Chesman (Author of Recipes from the Root Cellar and Serving up the Harvest). Help prepare and enjoy a few unexpected dishes that will sustain you through the long winter ahead.

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Come meet two of the Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Gurus who will incorporate some rather creative local products that might someday find their way into a pint. Other fun and creative activities are planned.

Learn to make a classic beef and vegetarian chard, apple, and goat cheese turnovers in this hands-on cooking class with local ingredients. While the turnovers are baking, we will toss together a fresh local salad to enjoy with our meal. Caroline Homan, City Market’s Food Education Coordinator, will teach this class.

(Registration required)

Book Talk and Tasting with author Jody Farnham

Local master cheesemakers and authors of The Joy of Cheesemaking: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding, Making, and Eating Fine Cheese (Skyhorse Publishing) discuss the processes of making cheese at home and provide samples of artisan cheese for you to taste. Books will be available for purchase.

(Registration required)

Put on your apron and learn the secret to baking pies like grandma did in this City Market class. Laura Kanya (of Vermont Mystic Pies and Sugarsnap Café) demonstrates how to make a rich, buttery pie crust with local flour and butter and fill it with autumn’s bounty from the fields and orchards. Don’t leave without eating a slice of warm, heavenly pie.

(Registration required)

Did you know that we have 350 acres of farmland within Burlington city limits? Just a mile from downtown, the Intervale hosts 13 farms growing everything from blueberries to tomatoes to flowers, raising chickens, keeping bees and more. It doesn’t get much more local than that! In this City Market farm tour we’ll take a tractor-pulled hay wagon ride down the Intervale road to meet our uber-local farmers, get to see their fields, and sample their amazing local food along the way. Sign up by emailing Meg at mklepack@citymarket.coop or calling 861-9753.