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Homegrown Foods Harvest Feast

Ethical Eats for a Good Cause on Saturday 20 April 2012 at Zen Organic Farm

The 3rd annual Homegrown Foods Harvest Feast Is sure to be a great event with Hong Kong’s top chefs and great entertainment. Join us down on the farm for live music and food in a fresh and relaxed alfresco setting as 11 of the city's talented chefs cook up ethical eats for a good cause. All proceeds will be donated to The Hummingfish Foundation for sustainable entrepreneurship programs and the Homegrown Foods Academy sponsoring school children to visit local Hong Kong farms.

Homegrown Foods Harvest Feast

DATE : Saturday 20 April

TIME : 1-5pm

PRICE : HK$1,488 adults | HK$888 children under 12

PLACE : Zen's Organic Farm

ADDRESS : No 22, C87, Lee Uk San Tseun, Ta Ku Ling, Ta Ku Ling, NT

ORGANIZER : Homegrown Foods

TEL : +852 2671 2771

EMAIL :  info@homegrownfoods.com.dot.hk

WEBSITE : homegrownfoods.com.hk

ONLINE BOOKING : Purchase tickets online

The 3rd Homegrown Foods Annual Harvest Feast event will be hosted at one of our partner farms and will be ticketed, giving local residents the opportunity to attend. 50% of the dishes will be vegetarian. Special guests, customers and the community will enjoy a afternoon on a farm with the freshest food created by 11 of Hong Kong's celebrated chefs. Tickets are priced at HK$1,488 for adults and HK$888 for children below 12. Proceeds from the event will be donated to two charities; the Hummingfish Foundation and the newly launched Homegrown Foods Academy.

Previously an invite only event held indoors at a restaurant, this year's Harvest Feast is the biggest yet for Homegrown Foods. As a celebration of local agriculture and cuisine, 11 of Hong Kong's talented chefs have volunteered their culinary skills to host interactive live cooking stations at the farm. Each chef creates one dish, comprising only all natural ingredients and at least one vegetable or fruit from Homegrown Foods' local harvest.

The Guest Chefs are: Gregoire Michaud (The Four Seasons), Jeremy Biasiol (The Mirror), Anthony Fletcher (The Pawn), Shane Osborn (St Betty), Peggy Chan (Grassroots Pantry), Jack Carson (Restoration), Erik Idos (Nobu), Vinny Lauria (Linguini Fini/Posto Pubblico), Tracy Wei (Linguini Fini/Posto Pubblico), Matt Bishop (22 Ships) and Matt Abergel (Yardbird).

Guests are transported from the hustle of Central, to the tranquility of the New Territories farm by private coach. The Harvest Feast is the first Hong Kong farm-experience for many guests, allowing them the opportunity to see for themselves, the stunning 'out-of-the-city' landscape on which the organic vegetables are grown.

“Not only does the Harvest Feast bring together a great collaboration of the community, chefs and agriculture, but it also gives our customers and the public a chance to see how stunning the farms are. Too many Hong Kong residents still trust blindly sourced food more than what is grown in our own back yard. Physically seeing and meeting the farmers directly is the first step towards understanding the amount of potential Hong Kong has, to grow an amazing variety of great tasting clean vegetables” says Todd Darling, Managing Director of Homegrown Foods.

The self-service soiree will take place from 1pm through 5pm, combining live music and food in a fresh and relaxed alfresco setting usually only seen in the vineyards of Europe. The guests will spend the afternoon grazing the chef's stalls at leisure while sipping White Sangria and bio-dynamic wines from Cuvees, micro-brewed beers from Americraft and artisanal coffees by La Colombe. Quintessentially Events are delighted to be on-board as a sponsor. They will be adding their signature flair for unique event production and creative styling.

Prizes will be silently auctioned throughout the afternoon to raise money for the two charities. The Hummingfish Foundation was established in 2010 with a mission to protect the earth's natural environments. Through sustainable community-based nature tourism (diving, birding, trekking, etc) and the support of naturally sustainable industries or 'green entrepreneurs' Hummingfish helps add economic value to unspoiled nature.

2013 will see the launch of the Homegrown Foods Academy. For the past three years, Homegrown Foods has hosted a handful of school field trips to the farms, educating young students about the differences between organic and industrial farming and the environmental impacts that each of them has on the planet and the earth’s resources. With the introduction of the not-for-profit Academy, Homegrown Foods plans to provide resources to the education sector by expanding its field trip syllabus to more schools in Hong Kong. The syllabus will give students an opportunity to see sustainable and organic farming practices first hand, and allow them to form more educated opinions and viewpoints on how their food choices directly affect themselves and the environment.

Tickets are available for purchase at all of the participating restaurants and from www.homegrownfoods.com.