Edible Institute 2022

Edible Institute 2022 will be held October 1-2 at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado.

Thought-leaders, journalists, food industry experts, and innovators in the sustainable food movement will join the public to share information.

Edible Communities, in collaboration with Food Tank, celebrates 20 years of telling the story of local food as stakeholders gather to explore the ideas, challenges, and changes that will shape food communities in the next decade and beyond. 

The keynote speaker for Edible Institute 2020 will be Dr. Temple Grandin, a scientist whose ground-breaking work in animal behavior has helped shape standards of excellence for the humane treatment of animals around the world.

Edible Institute 2022 Discussion topics include:

Grassfed Foods—Why It Matters

Blue Foods—Changing Menus, Saving the Planet

Sizes Matter—How to Scale and Still Change the Food System

Transparency and Traceability

Food Packaging

Food Labeling

All attendees are encouraged to try a Taste of Denver produced by Edible Denver, featuring sample bites and drinks from local food and drink artisans and producers.

For more information and tickets for Edible Institute 2022, visit www.ediblecommunities.com.

Edible Communities Edible Institute 2020

Sustainable food enthusiasts are invited to join 350+ thought-leaders, journalists, and food industry experts in the sustainable food movement in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The event will include community-based solutions to the most critical challenges to the future of food production, new paths towards better food, and an array of food to sample and enjoy.

Edible Institute follows the annual conference of Edible Editors and Publishers, many of whom also attend the Institute to deepen their knowledge of the modern food movement and its key players.

Edible Institute 2020 Schedule (tentative):

Saturday, January 25, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Sunday, January 26, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

For updated information concerning Edible Institute 2020, interested parties are urged to sign up for the Edible Communities newsletter.


Edible Communities (www.ediblecommunities.com) celebrates local food, season by season, community by community.

With a network of more than 90 independently-owned, locally-focused magazines across the U.S. and Canada, Edible Communities is the largest media organization devoted to telling the stories and sustaining the efforts of the farmers, chefs, food artisans, fishers, vintners, and home cooks.

West Virginia Nature Wonder Weekend 2016

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The 49th annual Nature Wonder Weekend, North America's premier and longest-running wild foods event, will be held Sept. 16–18, 2016, at North Bend State Park in West Virginia.

Featured speakers include wild foods cooking author Leda Meredith and hearth cook and food historians Martha and Richard Hartley.

"This year's program will highlight foraging as well as wild food preparation and preservation, past and present," said Deputy Director Emily Fleming of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.

Nature Wonder Weekend begins Friday evening and concludes mid-morning on Sunday. The event includes speakers, presentations, nature walks, and collection and preparation of wild foods.

Activities include a park tour, wild food identification instruction, the Hazel Wood National Wild Food Cooking Contest and the Bill Faust Wild Cake Contest. The Wild Drink Contest winner is awarded the honorary Maxine Scarbro Friendship Cup.

The weekend offers overnight packages as well as day-only attendance options. For more information, visit www.northbendsp.com.     

source: West Virginia Division of Natural Resources