Local Food Week 2026: Recap & Gratitude

What an incredible 7th Annual Local Food Week! We are immensely grateful to everyone who shared their time, talents, and resources to bring this celebration to life. Bringing together over 4,000 community members, we spent 10 unforgettable days from July 24th through August 2nd celebrating Northeast Indiana’s vibrant local food system.

Thank You to Our 2026 Local Food Week Hosts

Thank you to each of our 40 Local Food Week hosts & co-hosts across 10 Northeast Indiana counties for opening your farms, markets, restaurants, and businesses to visitors! You hosted 116 tours, workshops, and farm-to-fork dinners, sharing how you grow and produce local food and prepare delicious food and beverages with local ingredients. A special welcome and thank you to our 15 new Local Food Week hosts who opened their doors to guests for the very first time this year.

Thank You to Our Presenting Sponsor & Partners

We extend our deepest gratitude to 3Rivers Federal Credit Union, our Presenting Sponsor for the 7th Annual Local Food Week. Their incredible support allowed the Northeast Indiana Local Food Network to elevate our promotional efforts, utilizing vibrant print materials and expanded advertising to bring unprecedented visibility to our local food community and our expanded lineup of events.

Since Local Food Week was created in 2020, there has been no cost for farms and businesses to host an event, and most events have been free for the public to attend. This accessibility is only possible because of our incredible partners:

Presenting Sponsor: 3Rivers Federal Credit Union
Platinum Partner: 3 Rivers Natural Grocery
Gold Partners: Country Heritage Winery & Backroads Distilling, The Health Food Shoppe
Silver Partners: Visit Fort Wayne, Visit Noble County
Bronze Partners: Acres Away Winery, Berry Hill Farm, Bread for the World, Clearly Kosciusko, Cupka’s Bee Good Meadery, Hine Farms, Pequash Farms

Thank you to Our Local Food Week 2026 Committee

Thank you to Alexis Wagner for stepping up to serve as our Local Food Week Committee Chair for the first time this year! We deeply appreciate all her time and effort planning and managing this region wide event, as well as her committee, Denise Hoff, Janet Katz, Dustin Newcomer, Michele Schnelker, Amanda Johnson and Karen Petersen, for their countless hours organizing and promoting this 10 day celebration.

Thank you to Just Sue Graphic Design for their engaging and informative design for our Local Food Week 2026 Companion Guide (See below), and to Courier Printing for putting it all together. We received rave reviews on this booklet from both our Local Food Week hosts and participants.

Thank you to Our Community

Thank you to our enthusiastic supporters and followers on social media and in our local food community for helping to share news about Local Food Week and encouraging their friends and neighbors to participate.

Help Sustain Local Food Week

If you valued the experiences that Local Food Week offered this year, please consider making a donation in appreciation and support of this program here.

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