Business Showcase Focuses on "Eat Local"

Did you know that Delaware Valley College makes and sells ice cream made from the milk produced by the cows on the Doylestown Township campus?

You will if you come to Locavore tonight.

Doylestown's Superior Woodcraft is hosting a meet and greet business networking event tonight, but with a twist.

"Locavore" will focus on area farms and businesses that make and sell wine, food and more locally grown and produced items.

Many of the businesses also are working with their colleagues to create sample dishes for guests to try, said Patrick Kennedy, vice president of Superior Woodcraft.

Laurie’s Chocolates is doing a wine pairing with Wycombe Vineyards, Kennedy said. Crossroads Bake Shop is creating breads for dishes made by other participants, and Blue Moon Acres is supplying greens for other businesses to use in their dishes.

"It is rewarding to see that this event has already created introductions between local businesses and is fostering working relationships that can only strengthen our local economy," Kennedy said. "It is inspiring to see how businesses are reaching out to one another."

Kennedy said he proposed the idea of the Locavore event to the Doylestown Business and Community Alliance as a way to introduce local food-producing businesses to each other and to a wider consumer audience. Creating relationships between producers and consumers is vital if such small businesses are to succeed, he said.

Successful, sustainable local businesses benefit everyone, Kennedy pointed out - they create jobs, strengthen the local economy, keep the storefronts occupied, produce much-needed tax revenue for schools, roads and other services, not to mention their effect on preserving the character of local communities.

And now seemed the right time to do it, he said, given the increasing popularity of the "Buy Local, Eat Local" movement, which encourages people to buy foods grown and created close to where they live.

The event tonight is free and open "to anyone who would like to grow their business," according to the DBCA. Guests are encouraged to bring a friend.

Details:

Locavore
5 pm to 8 pm
hosted by Superior Woodcraft
160 N. Hamilton Street, Doylestown
email:  info@superiorwoodcraft.com
Tel: 215-348-9942