MFMA at the Minnesota State Fair: The Dirt Demo Stage

When
22-Aug-2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
Minnesota State Fair - Ag Hort Bldg

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MFMA at MSF's The Dirt Demo Stage

Ag Hort Building

Friday | August 22, 2025 | 10 - 11am

Farmers' Market Produce Makes Perfect Cottage Foods

If you're at the Minnesota State Fair, be sure to stop in and say hi!

MFMA's Director of Engagement and Inclusion, Sina War, will do a cooking demo featuring fresh in-season produce found at any of our 400+ farmers' markets during peak August - produce that is also perfect as a cottage food.

Selected audience members will be invited to practice with MFMA's pH meter kits, learning to calibrate them and then test Sina's home-canned and home-processed cottage foods. Key components of Minnesota's cottage foods law will be shared with fairgoers, with a QR code directing them to MFMA's free and open access Cottage Foods Law Licensing Exemption manual.

MFMA provides services, programs, and leadership that support and promote farmers' markets across Minnesota and our Tribal Nations.

We envision a community of vibrant, profitable, and professionally managed Minnesota farmers’ markets that:

Cultivates, nourishes, and inspires a vibrant local foods community;
Provides accessibility to all to local farm fresh foods;
Allows local food producers to thrive and grow;
Ensures these opportunities are available to everyone regardless of ethnicity, age, gender identity, or economic standing.

Director of Government Affairs: Friendly Vang-Johnson /// friendly@mfma.org /// (206) 276-2284

Director of Engagement & Inclusion: Sina War /// sina@mfma.org ///

Executive Director: Kathy Zeman /// kzeman@mfma.org /// (507) 664-9446

Minnesota Farmers' Market Association | 9800 155th St E | Nerstrand MN 55053-2403