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Bergen Food-festival September 10. – 12. 2010

Bønder i Byd’n is the official title of the Food-festival, and means Farmers in Town
The title reflects the old tradition of farmers from the rural districts coming to Bergen to sell their produce. (It’s also used as a negative remark among urban citizens about visitors from rural districts. We use self-irony and turn it around to something positive).

History
Bønder i Byd’n was held for the first time in 1989 as a one day event. The festival expanded in 2002 to three days, and it was a tremendous success. We have now run the festival for seven years in it’s present form, and we will continue this line in 2010.

Location
The festival is held at Bryggen, the Hanseatic wharf. The World Heritage Site of Bryggen is all that remains of an ancient wharf on the east side of Bergen’s central harbour – Vaagen. We use both the area in front of the houses and along the narrow passages between the houses. You will find lot of interesting information about Bryggen at the Bryggen foundation’s website: www.stiftelsenbryggen.no/

Aim
The purpose of the festival is to promote small-scale food production to the urban market. In recent years quite a few farmers on the west coast have developed a variety of products, many of them based on traditional local recipes.

Participants
Farm-based food businesses from the counties of Hordaland and Sogn&Fjordane are invited to sell their products. We also invite various tourist businesses wich promote local food as a part of their products, and other local small businesses in connection with small-scale food production.

Restaurants
2 or 3 restaurants will be established within the festivalarea, where visitors can enjoy local food accompanied by local cider and beer.

Opening hours
Sales: Friday: 12 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Organisation
The festival-organisation is a cooperation of farmer-organisations, the County Governor of Hordaland, City of Bergen and representatives for local small-scale food businesses. The Agriculture department at the County Governor of Hordaland serves the technical administration and project management.