Real Food Market & Beer Garden

Feed your soul and your belly at the Real Food Market and put your support behind local restaurants making a positive contribution to our local economy. Real Food is food that has a story you want to hear – from field to table. Our food vendors play a pivotal role in the Zero Waste Goal – all food ware is biodegradable and can be composted. You are welcome to bring your own or support local enterprise in sharing healthful, REAL food. By bringing your own mug, plate and service ware YOU will have a tremendous influence on this effort!

B&B’s Pickle Barrel
B&B’s Pickle Barrel is a bustling little eatery in downtown Fort Collins near CSU that specializes in innovative sandwiches. Every possible combination of sandwich is available from a host of meats, cheese and veggies. Soups, stews, chilies and bakery items such as quiche, brownies, cakes and cookies are all made from scratch using local ingredients when available.

Mugs Coffee Lounge
A staple of the Fort Collins community. They focus on relationships while providing an assortment of drinks and food. Mugs is wind powered, uses only compostable and disposable supplies, provides compost and recycling receptacles in the shop and is committed to Fair Trade, organic, local and homemade.
www.mugscoffeelounge.com

Pincho’s
Local roots + inspired food. Celebrating community thru locally sourced catering and home-cooking. We proudly source all our ingredients locally and regionally (Colorado and bordering states) whenever possible, supporting area farmers and ranchers, as well as sustainable agriculture. We also abide zero-waste goals of event organizers, and prioritize events that uphold those values. www.coloradopinchos.com

Cafe Ardour
Cafe Ardour proudly provides local and organic light fare, locally roasted direct trade coffee, and artisinal baked goods. We support our community of farmers, artists and independent businesses, always striving to provide a comfortable and welcoming atmosphere where friendships are made and sustained.
www.cafeardour.com

CRUST RUSTIC Wood Fired Pizza
We use local, seasonal, organic ingredients to make Neapolitan-influenced pizza. From our organic, Colorado-milled flour for the crust, to the house made ricotta, creme fraiche, or pesto, we carefully select the highest quality goods. We hand-cut Denver made pepperoni, and hand crush our tomatoes for our red sauce.  Dawn Dennison, the locally-grown owner and pizza maker kneads her dough by hand and personally harvests the produce used on her pizzas from the Lyons Farmette and Lone Hawk Farm in Boulder County. Our oven, made from organic, hand-made terra blanche clay from Provence, France cooks your pizza in minutes. Finally, no electricity is used. All pizzas are cooked by fire, with sustainably harvested oak. We’d love to feed you.
www.crustmobile.com

Walrus Ice Cream
Fort Collins’ best ice cream cotton candy drinks! A locally owned, premium home-made ice cream store. They use only the finest all-natural ingredients in their ice cream and use a premium mix with no eggs in the recipe. They offer a wide variety of products in addition to their home-made, premium ice cream, including sherbets, sorbets, fruitages and low-fat yogurts. www.walrusicecream.com

Tumbleweed Super Tasty Treats
You know it as the Gyro Cart from Old Town Square – join us at the Fair for hummus, Gyros, & locally sourced brats and hot dogs done just right.

The Fiddletown Bakery
Bread made by people, not machines. Each of our loaves has character and flavor! We use local, Colorado ingredients  grown by folks who understands the importance of healthy, natural food. At the Fair: scrumptious and organic PB-n-Js, made on artisan breads and our tasty veggie sandwiches will make your mouth water and belly full. www.thefiddletownbakery.com

Raska                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Locally owned restaurant that strives to offer healthy and pleasurable food. Ethnic food to meet the modern lifestyle. Healthy ingredients, Lakota Bison Caretaker’s Bison meat and more. www.berekaproducts.com/index.htm

Beer Garden
Welcome to the Sustainable Living Fair. We invite you to help us celebrate our location in the Hoppiest Beer Garden yet with an American IPA and Pale Ale from the region’s two premier breweries. Internationally recognized for their dedication to the environment and philanthropy, New Belgium and Odell Brewing Companies are brewers of many fine beers, several of which are featured in the Beer Garden.

Along with beer, we welcome back Redstone Meadery. Mead (honey wine) is a delicious alternative to beer and Redstone uses a ‘natural philosophy’ to produce the highest quality all natural gluten-free mead on the market with no sulfites added. Enjoy one of these fine beverages in a reusable RMSLA Pint Glass. Glasses, each 16 oz. fill of beer and each 6 oz. fill of mead are $4. If you don’t wish to keep the pint glass, you can return it for a $2 refund.* All proceeds from the Beer Garden go directly to the SLA and help ensure the future of the Fair.

*Only reusable glasses will be refunded.
We can offer no refund for lost, stolen or damaged glasses. Please drink responsibly.

Black Raspberry Nectar Mead (Redstone)
This Nectar is 8% alcohol, medium sweet and sparkling with taste light and refreshing. The honey flavor is prominent and well balanced in this simple, yet intriguing mead with significant natural black raspberry flavor.

5 Barrel Pale Ale (Odell’s)
Before they ferment 5 Barrel Pale Ale, they strain it through a bed of whole flower hops. While it ages, they add even more. This gives the beer a fresh, lively finish. This beer is a particularly satisfying example of what can happen when you craft a recipe in small batches, just 5 barrels at a time — hence the name.

Mothership Wit (New Belgium)
Mothership elevates the zesty Wit (White) beers of Belgium with wheat malt, coriander and orange peel spicing — all of which are organic. The MOTHER-SHIP experience begins with a cloudy, pale yellow appearance capped by a creamy white head followed by alluring, slightly spicy, floral aroma. The refreshing taste is the result of a gravitational balance of citrus and sour flavors held in suspension by a bright burst of carbonation.

90 Shilling (Odell’s)
Odell’s flagship, 90 Shilling was introduced to the world at their opening party in 1989. Wondering what would happen if they lightened up the traditional Scottish ale resulted in an irresistibly smooth and delicious medium-bodied amber ale. The name comes from the Scottish method of taxing beer. Only the highest quality beers were taxed 90 Shillings, a British coin used from 1549 to 1982. We think you’ll find this original ale brilliantly refreshing and worth every shilling.

1554 (New Belgium)
Born of a flood and centuries-old Belgian text, 1554 Enlightened Black Ale uses a lager yeast strain and dark chocolaty malts to redefine what dark beer can be.

Hoptoberfest (New Belgium)
Five hops and four malts make Hoptober Golden Ale a veritable cornucopia of the earth.  Pale and wheat malt are mashed with rye and oats to create a medium-bodied ale with a creamy mouthfeel.

Sunshine Nectar Mead (Redstone)
With the addition of apricots for a dry, tart and more traditional-tasting mead Sunshine is 8% alcohol, medium-dry and sparkling. The prominent honey flavor is accompanied with real apricots for a light, refreshing, and well-balanced apricot mead.

Wines (Red)  -  Merlot (Zephyr), Syrah (Snowy Peaks)

Wines (White) – Eleve’Blank (Snowy Peaks), Oso White (Snowy Peaks), Reisling (Zephyr)

Common Sense Beer Garden Disclaimers:
Must be 21 with valid ID. Beer and mead must remain on the Fair grounds.