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Cream of theCrop
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MARKETPLACE

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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!

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