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Festival and Street Fair
10:00am – 6:00pm — Santa Monica High School
$10 admission includes Grow Your Own! and Chefs at Play
Enjoy two amazing days featuring exhibits with family farmers and artisanal food producers. Watch demos from some of LA’s best chefs. Enjoy street food from vendors who source from the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Browse a food-focused bookstore with author signings. Purchase green products from sustainable and food focused vendors. Visit Rediscovered Gems: WPA Agricultural Art featuring remarkable paintings by Works Project Administration artists from the 1930s. In addition to the workshops on gardening and urban homesteading, enjoy music, great people, and the beautiful campus of Santa Monica High School.
We have over 100 vendors that will participate in the street fair! Click here for a comprehensive list.
Grow Your Own!
10:00am – 5:00pm – Santa Monica High School
included in Festival and Street Fair admission
Grab your gardening gloves and hat and bring your questions, your curiosity, and your family to Grow Your Own! A variety of local experts will demonstrate what you need to know about garden basics, seed starting, seed saving, fruit trees, container gardening, backyard chickens, beekeeping, worm composting, pest control and more. Also included are speakers and panels focused on school food and school gardens.
Chefs at Play
10:30am – 4:00pm — Santa Monica High School
included in Festival and Street Fair admission
Good Food for Thought Speaker Series
12:00pm – 5:30pm – Santa Monica High School
included in Festival and Street Fair admission
Join us for a two-day speaker series featuring national and regional leaders of the good food movement. They will map the course of this exciting revolution and share their personal insights into the future of Good Food.
Preserve It!
10:00am – 5:00pm – Santa Monica High School
included in Festival and Street Fair admission
Discover the secrets to preserving from certified Master Food Preservers, expert chefs, bakers and farmers who can, pickle and ferment in their day to day lives. From homemade cheese to tomato preserves to jam, pickles, and pies you will learn the skills to fill your larder with the best of the market’s local seasonal bounty
