You’ve heard of speed dating, right? That’s where people get a quick date with someone and then the singles move on to a next potential match.
Well, at Windsor’s Juniper Hill Inn there was a twist on that concept.
Representatives from about 60 different farms, chatted with potential food buyers for ten minutes, and then continued to the next. The event gave local farmers a chance to explore options for selling their foods, to larger buyers, through one-on-one conversations.
“The big idea behind it is to make as many opportunities available to our farmers as possible to sell their foods locally. So, here they are meeting with what we call business to business sales people so we are talking about distributors, retailers, coops, restaurants, healthcare providers. Anyone that is in that indirect marketplace,” said Helen Labun Jordan of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture.
This is the second time the event has been held. And it sold out. About 130 attended.
