Chipotle Cultivate
On Saturday, July 18, Chipotle the will bring their Cultivate Festival to Kansas City.
So what is the Cultivate Festival you ask?
Well it is a family friendly day at Penn Valley Park where you can enjoy listening to bands (Max Frost, St. Lucia, Betty Who, Small Pools and Portugal The Man), watch celebrity chef demonstrations (Graham Elliot, Amanda Freitag, KC’s own Colby Garrelts as well as others), sample products from local food artisans (Rye, Little Freshie, Shatto, Poppy’s Ice Cream and more), enjoy beer and wine tastings, and learn how to make Chipotle’s addictive guacamole!
Special cultivate exhibits include short films on sustainability, why Chipotle will not use any GMO foods, factory vs farm, guac from scratch and fresh vs processed. Collect stamps from each of the exhibits and earn a free Chipotle reward!
Chipotle’s amazing food will be available including dishes from their Shophouse Rice Bowl Restaurants which is Chipotle’s Southeast Asian Kitchen concept and Pizza Locale a new pizza concept coming to KC from Denver! All dishes will cost around $6.00.
Chipotle Taco
For beverages KC’s own Boulevard Brewing Company has created a Cultivate Farmhouse Ale for the festival. I happened to get a sneak taste of it and it is pretty darn good and well worth the $6.00 that the festival will be charging for beer and wine. Other beer vendors include Schlafly, Stone Brewing Co., Free State, KC Bier Co and more. Wine will be available from KC’s own Somerset Ridge.
Boulevard’s Cultivate Farmhouse Ale
The event is free to attend and runs from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Check out the Chipotle Cultivate website for information on music line-up, celebrity chefs, artisans, vendors, times, directions and more.
The Chipotle App
You can also download the Chipotle Cultivate App to get updates, news and information about the festival.
See you there!
In Good Taste,
Sharm
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Why is Chipotle at a local artisan festival? They are owned by McDonald’s! And GMO foods have actually helped increase sustainability by allowing no-till farming and decreasing pesticide use! I get it that products, services, and events are based on demand, but when demand is cultivated from misunderstanding, it’s annoying that others try to capitalize on the myths.
Thanks for the comment! I sent your questions to the team at Chipotle and here’s what they shared:
“We appreciate the questions/comments and want to make sure we address each.
First, some additional background on Cultivate. It’s a Chipotle-run festival that we’re bringing to KC for the first time this year. The Artisans’ Hall is where you can find local businesses – Roasterie, Poppy’s, Rye, Shatto Creamery and Little Freshie – sampling and selling their homemade goodies. We’ll also have bands and celeb chef demos, plus great experiences that we hope spark conversations about food and how it’s made (check out ChipotleCultivate.com for the lineup).
At Chipotle, we focus on “Food with Integrity” – delicious food made from responsibly-sourced ingredients. We feel that our emphasis on sustainability doesn’t align with McDonald’s practices, and it’s one of the reasons they’ve not owned any part of Chipotle since 2006.
Our focus on “Food with Integrity” is also why we decided to remove all GMO ingredients from Chipotle food. You’re right. There is a lot of debate about GMO ingredients/foods, and it’s clear that a lot of research is still needed before we can truly understand all of the implications of GMO cultivation and consumption. While that debate continues, we decided that using non-GMO ingredients better aligns with our passion for serving food made from the best possible ingredients, so we’re doing just that.
We set up a page with more background on that decision here: chipotle.com/gmo
Thank you, again, for your comments. We love talking about food and are glad to do so with you!”