2009 Sponsors
The Ballyshannon Fund is a donor-advised fund of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, organized to help teach others that sustainable and successful environmental outcomes depend almost entirely on economic success.
The Fund supports educational endeavors designed to encourage greater understanding of rural living, the ethos of commercial farming and timbering, and the responsible use of natural resources, including hunting and fishing.
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Whole Foods has supported to the HHF since its inception, helping to
get the first Festival off the ground in 2007 with a substantial
grant. This year, Whole Foods is supporting the Festival with its “Friday 5@5″ weekly food and wine tastings thoughout August.
Visit the store in the Shoppers World shopping center in Charlottesville from 5 to 7 p.m. on each Friday in August, where, for a $5 donation, you can sample five different types of wine paired with delicious food. Stop by our info table for festival updates. For more information visit www.heritageharvestfestival.org or call Whole Foods at (434) 973-4900.
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Virginia Master Gardeners
Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners are volunteers dedicated to promoting environmentally sound horticulture practices through sustainable landscape management educational programs. The following five area Master Gardener organizations are proud to add the Heritage Harvest Festival to the many community educational programs they support.
– Central Virginia Master Gardeners (Louisa & Surrounding Counties)
– Nelson County Master Gardeners
– Fluvanna County Master Gardeners
– Piedmont Master Gardeners
– Greene County Master Gardeners
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Feast! is Charlottesville’s haven for the food lover. It is a locally-owned and operated food store that specializes in artisan cheeses, locally grown and produced foods and healthy lunches.
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IN THE KITCHEN, a monthly newsletter for home cooks, their helpers and everyone who loves good food, focuses on local, seasonal foods available in Central Virginia. Pick up this free tabloid-style publication at area grocery stores in Charlottesville and Lynchburg, Va. Its companion Web site includes a cookbook with all of the recipes mentioned in the magazine and interviews with local home cooks, local growers and local food producers. Guest columnists include wine merchants, dieticians, caterers, and adventurers who search for fine foods everywhere.
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Sacred Plant Traditions is a center for herbal studies located in the heart of downtown Charlottesville. We offer classes for the absolute beginner to the accomplished practitioner wishing to deepen their relationship with plant medicines. Through our Two-Year Community Herbalist Training Program, we also offer a free clinic to local residents. For complete class listings and more information please visit, www.SacredPlantTraditions.com or call 434-295-3820.
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Since the doors were opened by Sri Swami Satchidananda in 1975, Integral Yoga Natural Foods has proudly provided a health-conscious shopping environment for Charlottesville, Virginia and surrounding counties. IY provides customers with the foods, supplements and personal care products needed to maintain a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle.
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Founded in 2000, Vintage Virginia Apples grows more than 200 varieties of apples and other tree fruits that have fallen into obscurity or just do not fit the needs of today’s commercial systems.
Rural Ridge is a family-run orchard dedicated to exploring the apples that thrive in Albemarle County, Va. Thomas Jefferson experimented with 18 or more varieties of apples at Monticello, only a few miles away. Rural Ridge grows several of the varieties he chose, as well as hundreds of other old-fashioned apples that offer delightful alternatives to the few currently available in grocery stores.
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Edible Blue Ridge is the culinary magazine dedicated to celebrating Central Virginia’s unique regional food scene, with a focus on our many farms, orchards, wineries, farmers’ markets, specialty shops, eateries, food artisans and home cooks. From roadside fruit stands to award-winning wines, from community gardens to gourmet confections, there is an abundance of stories to tell, and we seek to tell them all. Edible Blue Ridge is your ultimate resource for what is happening in our local food scene, season by season.
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Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS)
Assists in developing and enhancing sales and marketing opportunities for retail farmers markets, organic producers, agritourism enterprises and direct marketers, including farmers markets, roadside stands, restaurateurs and specialty food stores. Activities include focusing on entrepreneurial development and consumer outreach programs through educational workshops, seminars, consumer and trade events and providing point-of-sale materials
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Flavor Magazine is committed to supporting locally and sustainably produced food and wine in the Capital foodshed not because we want to be part of a new trend but because we believe this is a wise investment for our economy, our community, our environment, and our health. Flavor promotes the culture of local food and wine and the traditions that are unique to this area. Each issue presents portraits of local small family farmers, ranchers, poultry farmers, food artisans, chefs, wine makers, and brewmasters who are passionate about their craft.
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They organize the annual Farm Food Voices.
About Farm Food Voices: This exciting annual event brings the spotlight to current agricultural and local foods issues. Visitors can bid on the many silent auction items donated by local businesses and producers; browse information booths and book tables; enter to win one of several amazing grand prizes; chat with local producers and business owners; and listen to dynamic speakers, including Tom Perriello, Richard Morris, Creigh Deeds, Rob Schilling and Richard Bean.
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Piedmont Environmental Council - Piedmont Environmental Council’s “Buy Fresh Buy Local” campaign will be co-sponsoring the ever-popular tasting tent at the Festival, bringing local growers and retailers to offer samples of delicious foods from the tomato tastings to apple and cheese pairings. Last year, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the PEC worked together to protect 150 acres of Montalto with a Land Conservation Agreement that permanently preserves the view from Monticello’s vegetable gardens and south lawn. PH: (540) 347-2334 www.pecva.org