IFA's First Food Expo a Huge Success!

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The Indiana Foodways Alliance would like to thank the vendors, sponsors and attendees of its first Real Food, Real Indiana Expo held Saturday, Nov. 22, at Minnetrista in Muncie, IN. It was your participation and good spirit that made this event such a huge success.

The event showcased 25 vendors – Appleseed Farm, Cocoa Safari, Concannon's Pastry Shop, Drennan’s Pumpkin Kingdom, Fields of Agape, Gourmet Divine, Good’s Candy Shop, J. Edward’s Fine Chocolates & Gourmet Cakes, JohnTom’s BBQ Sauce, Joseph Decuis, Lowery’s Candies, Main Street Coffee Company, New Day Meadery, Orebaugh’s Grand Grilling To Go, Prairie Blossom Bee Farm, Sechler’s Pickles, Seeds and Such, Russell Sheep Company, Uncle Henry’s Candies, Under the Sun Bakery, Zinszer’s Bakery and Cookies, Saint-Gobain Containers, The StarPress, Your Very Own Geek, and Indiana Green Pages. Vendors, thank you for the being a part of the expo.

IFA would like to thank its sponsors – Lilly Endowment/ Ball State University Business Fellows; The Star Press; Minnetrista; Saint-Gobain Containers; Cole Brothers Water Company; Little Crow Foods; Judy Kern of Farm Bureau Insurance; Jarden Home Brands; the visitors bureaus of Hamilton County, Anderson, Muncie, Lafayette-West Lafayette and Jay County; Marsh; Red Gold; and Albanese Confectionary Group. Your generosity made the first food expo possible.

Thank you to Muncie and East Central Indiana residents for attending the Real Food, Real Indiana Expo, which attracted nearly 1,200 attendees. We hope that you will continue to support the local food culture of Indiana.

The Real Food, Real Indiana Expo also would not have been possible without the efforts of the eight Ball State Business Fellows students and their faculty mentor who did all of the work behind the scenes to organize the event. Thank you.

For more information about how you can support Indiana’s food culture, we hope you'll stay in touch at IndianaFoodways.com.

Sincerely,
Susan Haller
Executive Director
Indiana Foodways Allliance

Visit the Real Food, Real Indiana Expo photo gallery at: http://www.printroom.com/ViewGallery.asp?evgroupid=0&userid=bsuphoto&gallery_id=1481036

Video shot and edited by Blake Fife -Ball State University
Narrated by Kellie Brown