Lehigh News
ECHO kicks off annual Food & Farm Fest
Thousands of attendees got to shop for and taste some of the most amazing foods as the annual ECHO Global Food & Farm Fest kicked off Saturday. Usually, Saturday’s open Farm Day is the climax of the festival. This year, in a change of pace, it was used to kick things off, followed by four days of seminars, workshops and a tropical lunch with food grown on the 57-acre farm in North Fort Myers. Visitors got to tour the experimental and teaching farm, attend workshops and cooking demonstrations, make homemade peanut butter, sip freshly squeezed orange juice and sugar cane and much ...