Local Wild Food Festival

Get a taste of the wild at the Local Wild Food Challenge, where the Island’s natural landscape becomes the inspiration for creative cooking. Participants transform locally sourced ingredients from the land and sea into inventive dishes, celebrating foraging, fishing, hunting, gardening, and traditional foodways.

Come as a guest of enter as a chef….forage it, hunt it, fish it, grow it or trade for it — then transform it into something memorable. Every entry must feature at least one wild ingredient, with additional credit given for locally sourced ingredients and the effort involved in gathering them.

Dishes can be hot, cold, raw, smoked, frozen, preserved or poured; anything goes. Open to professional chefs, home cooks, caterers, children, fishermen and first-time competitors. Entries are judged anonymously on taste, ingredients, presentation and effort. Entry is free for competitors.

Portion of the proceeds benefit the Vineyard Preservation Trust.