“We brought in a couple of cold brews and hot coffee from Ethiopia and dark roast,” “Coffees are different in each country. Saturday was the busiest day, by far, with plenty of cooking demonstrations, starting with the traditional coffee tasting with Bones Coffee of Cape Coral, which brought in both hot and cold brews.Ĭolton Siemers, 9, and his brother, Landon, 12, make a craft during ECHO’s 31st annual Food & Farm Festival on Saturday. “We also hosted a beekeeping workshop, food preservation workshop and how to build a kid-friendly food forest.” They got to try a tropical-tasting lunch, which sold out almost every day,” Flood said. “Visitors were able to gather tips for their own backyard.

The festival was the biggest one yet, with five days of hands-on classes, seminars, cooking demonstrations, tropical lunches, fun for the kids and samples of some the food made with what is grown at the farm.ĭanielle Flood, ECHO’s communications director, said it was great to include more days of hands-on activities to give people a chance to get more out of the festival. One of the area’s biggest culinary and educational experiences returned to ECHO last week as the global farm hosted the 31st annual Food & Farm Festival. Hank Frechtling mulches up some sugar cane stalks with help from fellow volunteer Barry Gentile during ECHO’s 31st annual Food & Farm Festival on Saturday.

Dark sumatra coffee