family farmed expo

tomato mountain had a table last year via tammy green's photostream.

a few months ago a friend approached me about helping out on the social media for a three-day conference of sorts held in chicago called the family farmed expo. since late january, i've been doing just that. and the expo? it begins today.

looking back on the early posts of this blog, long before i had a business and did much more on twitter than scratch my head at the short and blabbering tweets that came from my own account, i never would've dreamed to be working on an event that billed itself as "a three day conference, trade show, and food festival for farmers, businesses, the trade, individuals, and families." the joke internally is that it's sort of like the SXSW of local food. but it's the 5am hour, i'm awake, and soon enough i'll be down at the expo doing my social media thang, live tweeting my little fool heart out. what a thrill for me to be working so closely with local foods, artisan food makers, and family farms.

i'm hoping i'll have moments to pause and reflect, even report, on the expo and the incredible programming that will run the next three days—but to be honest, i just don't know what to expect. this might be three days of marathon training for all i know.

in the meantime, follow along as i work my way through the schedule with @grantkessler and @localfoodwisdom while the three of us put our heads together and converge to bring as much live content to the @familyfarmed twitter handle as we possibly can.

and let's hope we serve the expo well, huh?