Incredible Edibles Festival - 2015

It was a beautiful day in Downtown Campbellford Ontario on July 11, for the second annual Incredible Edibles Festival. The 2015 event attracted thousands of food lovers and close to 50 exhibitors. The wonderful aroma of local food filled the downtown core, from baked goods to pizza, grilled pork, beef and bison and even flour made from crickets.

The Campbellford-Seymour Agricultural Society which hosts the Campbellford Fair from August 7-9, 2015 sold delicious homemade pies.

  

Butter tarts from the Butter Tart Factory were served up by Nancy from In Season Gourmet, which sells the Butter tarts at their store at 44 Front Street in downtown Campbellford.

Westben Arts Festival Theater Cello Mania, flash-mob consisting of U of T Cello Ensemble: Sarah Steeves, Rosalind Zhang, Brenton Chan, and Jun Kyu Park. I loved it, they were preforming Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, one of my favorite songs.

Deborah Neimann Boehle author, journalist and speaker from Illinois gives a demonstration on making homemade mozzarella.

Check out Debora's website The Thrifty Homesteader for more info.

Joel MacCharles of WellPreserved.ca was one of the speakers and he also gave a demonstration on making mead and honey wine.

Jude Cohen-Phillips was a speaker from Incredible Edible in Todmorden, England.

And the big hit of the day was speaker Frank Ferragine, otherwise know to us Canadians as Frankie Flowers. Frank’s family runs one of the largest combined greenhouse/garden centre operations in Ontario www.bradfordgreenhouses.com and he still remains active in the business.

• Contributing Garden Writer for Canadian Living Magazine and Canadian Gardening Magazine.
• Weather Anchor and Garden Specialist for Toronto’s number one morning show Breakfast Television
• Garden Expert on Canada’s most popular daytime lifestyle show CityLine
• Weekly columnist Toronto Sun promoting Local food, farming and cuisine. 
• Selected to be the voice of Toronto’s Water Campaign 1” per week. 
• Former Board Member of Canada Blooms Flower and Garden Show. 

And I must add that Frank is a very gracious and personable speaker.

After his presentation, he did a book signing. I was hoping to buy one, and he sold all 40. But at least all of those in line, got to get an autographed book, except for me:-(

But at least I did get a photo with Frankie, my favorite weather anchor on Breakfast TV. Thank you Frank!

Martin Littkemann (above left) of Ontario Water Buffalo Company from Stirling, Ontario encourages children and even adults to hop on Yvette.

Lori Smith (above right) of Ontario Water Buffalo Company smiles for the camera, along with Yvette the buffalo.

Whether you arrived by car, boat, plane or were local, it was an enjoyable day along the shores of the Trent River in Downtown Campbellford, Ontario.

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