The second annual Farm-to-Fork celebration in Sacramento was a grand success, outdoing the previous year's event by leaps and bounds. Hosted on the Tower Bridge, Sunday, September 28, the event overcame early-afternoon rain to delight attendees with amazing, locally sourced foods and wines.
According to The Sacramento Bee, 40 local chefs got together to more than 700 attendees, over 100 more than last year's celebration. The event sold out within five minutes of tickets going on sale, and attendance at the accompanying, free festival at Capitol Mall also rose from 25,000 to nearly 35,000 this year.
"I think yesterday was a product of the year we have had – how attention to Farm-to-Fork has increased," Mike Testa, one of the event's primary organizers, told the Bee. "You are seeing this region [embrace the concept]. It was one of the questions we had internally: 'If we raise it to $5,000, are people going to pay it?' And they paid it like that."
Tickets to the Bridge dinner sold for $175-a-seat, and the rapid pace at which they sold out inspired the launch of another event, "Dinner at the Overlook" in the downtown railyard area, the source noted.
Amber Stott, executive director of the Food Literacy Center, which hosted the second dinner as a fundraiser, noted that the amazing turnout highlights the beauty of the event. It shows how people are willing to support the farm-to-fork movement, especially in relation to a good cause.
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