Local Blues Legend and shake your moneymaker for one summer time blast, a Second Annual Blues for Food Festival. Blues for Food Fest is an all age event featuring some of the finest blues bands in the Northwest, organic food vendors, a homemade pie auction, and children’s hands-on gardening activities. Lettuce Link/Solid Ground will be at the Blue for Food Festival to collect fresh organic vegetable donation at the “Beet Hunger” booth. It will be harvest time, so you can donate generously, the food banks need s.
Local farmer’s market favorite, Green Go Food will serve up delicious organic grass fed beef hamburgers and savory polenta cakes. A Homemade Pie Auction, P-Patch Pie Queens will be tempting your taste buds with delicious and satisfying harvest time pies.
This event will be held at Magnuson Park Amphitheater, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98115 on August 30, 2008 11 am to 7 pm. The local blues bands schedules: Brian Butler Blues 11:00am to 11:50am, Billy Roy Danger and the Rectifiers 12:00nn – 1:30 pm, Crossroads Blues Band 2:00pm to 3:30pm, Polly O’ Keary and the Rhythm Method 4:00 to 5:30 pm, and Mark Riley 6:00 – 7:00pm.
The Blues for Food Fest benefits the P-Patch Trust. The P-Patch Trust provides community gardens with small development grants, plot rental fees for low-income gardeners, and tools for all at the garden to use. Seattle’s P-Patch food bank gardens, community farms, and community fruit tree harvest donate more than 20 tons of fresh organic produce to local food banks, meals-on-wheels programs, shelters for women and children and transitional housing. The ticket cost for the children under 12 years old is $10 while the teens and adults is $20; the tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets. This event will be an alcohol-free.

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Posted on August 20th, 2008 by ichatmedia
Filed under: Organic Food, Organic Food for Children, Organic vs Conventional