This Saturday, May 12 it won’t be your average Charlottesville City Market Day. As part of all those Tom Tom Festival events, the City Market will become an extravaganza of local food tastings, chef demonstrations and gardening information. What’s more, the inside of nearby south Street Brewery will become a veritable convention space of tastings from local restaurant and vendors, clinics, and interesting topic discussions related to the local, local food movement.

Here’s the days run down of events and activities, courtesy the Tom tom folks:

From 9am-12pm:
• Chef demos every 1/2 hour by our best local chefs including Brookville Restaurant, the Ivy Inn & the Whiskey Jar and more. Hosted inside South Street Brewery
• A kids corner with seed ball making, veggie prints, other veggie and gardening crafts on South 1st street as an extension of the farmers market.
• Craft Fair along south 1st street

From 12 pm-2pm
• A seed and starter exchange co-hosted with Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
• Panel discussion with PEC, the Local Food Hub, Albemarle County, JABA followed by a local food mixer to meet the farmers and producers and taste our local fare!
• Tastings with Bare Foot Bucha, Feast, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Rebecca’s

Tastings:
Local food vendors offering tastings in south street (12-2pm)

Bare Foot Bucha
Bellair Farm
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Great Harvest Bakery
Rebecca’s Natural Foods
Feast

Chef Demos:
Brookville Restaurant
Ivy Inn
Whiskey Jar

Gardening Activities:
Local Food Hub
Buford School Garden
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants
Piedmont Environmental Council

Presenters: “Improving Access to Local Foods”

Piedmont Environmental Council
Jefferson Area Board for the Aging
Albemarle County
Local Food Hub