We are excited to announce that this is the first year that 100% of the food vendors at the St. Louis Earth Day Festival will be GDA Certified! Restaurants at the festival have gone through extensive zero-waste training, so everything your meal and drinks are served on will be compostable or recyclable – absolutely nothing from your lunch will go to the landfill!
All food scraps from food preparation will be composted as well, and any leftovers will be donated to Anointed Hands’ food pantry, keeping organic material from going to the landfill while feeding hungry people!
The Croquetterie will be serving vegan options, like most of our food vendors All of their food scraps in the back of the house will be composted, and any leftover food will be donated to Annointed Hands’ food pantry!
Nearly all of the food vendors at the St. Louis Earth Day Festival will be helping attendees participate in the St. Louis Earth Day Challenge by providing plant-based meal and snack options.
Visitors can take the Earth Day Challenge by:
- Using sustainable transportation like riding the Metrolink, taking the bus, riding a bike, or walking to the Festival. (Active, sustainable transportation reduces your carbon footprint while giving you a healthy workout).
- Bringing your own reusable bag (Plastic bags are not recyclable in single-stream bins, and are a notorious form of litter that often winds up in our water systems, where they can take 500 years or more to break down)
- Bringing your own refillable water bottle. ( It takes 17 million barrels of oil to produce one year’s worth of single-use plastic water bottles).
- Eating a vegan meal. (Eating a plant-based diet or reducing your meat consumption can dramatically reduce your environmental impact).
Of course, the Earth Day Festival has more to offer than food, education, and entertainment – it also has beer! Lots and lots of beer! GDA breweries 4 Hands Brewing Co., Perennial Artisan Ales, Schlafly, and Urban Chestnut.
Beer from several local breweries, including Perennial Artisan Ales, will be available at the St. Louis Earth Day Festival.
Our food vendors include Bailey’s Range, Bayou Catering and Seasoning, Bombay Food Junkies, Buzz’s Hawaiian Grill, Clementine’s Creamery, Confluence Kombucha, Fitz’s Bottling Company, Foundation Grounds, Handlebar, Ice’s Plain and Fancy, Juicemasters, Kakao Chocolate, Larder & Cupboard, Mission Taco Joint, Salt + Smoke, Seed Sprout Spoon, SqWires Restaurant & Annex, The Croquetterie, The Dam and Michele C. Catering and Events, Traveling Tea, Urban Eats, and Whisk: a Sustainable Bakeshop.
Check out the full menu here: https://stlouisearthday.org/festival/food/
The St. Louis Earth Day Festival will take place April 21 and 22 from 11-5 in Forest Park, rain or shine.
Whisk will be serving up sustainable snacks at the GDA Cafe!
