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2nd Annual Graze: Birmingham

by | Aug 25, 2016

Buy your tickets here!

Facebook event here (invite your friends)!

Graze: Birmingham is a farm-to-fork picnic in which attendees “graze” on a wide variety of dishes, each produced by a different local farmer + local restaurant pair. Add in some picnic blankets, live music, and delicious local beverages… and it’s a picnic you don’t want to miss!

Sunday, September 11
5-8pm
Avondale Brewery

 


 

Tickets
Tickets to Graze are sold on a sliding scale (pay-what-you-want basis).  This helps make the fundraiser accessible to a wider, more diverse, and more “ASAN” group of attendees!

Adults: $25-75
Children (<13): $5-15

Buy your tickets here!

All adult tickets include one drink ticket.  (Alcoholic and nonalcoholic options available.)  If you donate $55 or more for your ticket, you will receive a free bouquet to take home after the event, provided by Jones Valley Teaching Farm.  If you donate $75 or more, you will receive one year’s membership to ASAN at the Individual level.

Please give as generously as your wallet allows!

 


 

Featured Farms and Restaurants:

AA Farm Creamery

Belle Meadow Farms

Deep South Food Alliance

el barrio restaurante y bar

Golden Temple

Grandview Farm

Harvest Roots Ferment

Heron Hollow Farm

Jones Valley Teaching Farm

Magic City Sweet Ice

Marble Creek Farmstead

Mimi’s Sodas

Mt. Laurel Farm

OvenBird

Pelham Culinary Academy

Pleasant Ridge Farm

Pollo Lucas

Real and Rosemary

Relish Café

Silvertron

Snow’s Bend Farm

Southern Foothills

Sprout and Pour

Thyme Randle

West End Community Café

West End Community Garden

Yellowhammer CSA

 


 

SPONSORS — Please show these folks some love!

Blackjack Horticulture, Inc.

Oak Street Garden Shop and Local Market

Cahaba Group of the Sierra Club

Mighty Grow Organics

Avondale Brewing Company

Whole Foods Market Birmingham