About Tofino Food and Wine Festival
Tofino Food and Wine Festival celebrates the marriage of food and wine, with the main event, Grazing in the Gardens, showcasing local culinary talents and British Columbia wines, in the beautiful Tofino Botanical Gardens. Events of the festival support several non profit organizations and initiatives, including Tofino Botanical Gardens Foundation, Community Children’s Centre and Tofino’s Community Garden, Lighthouse Trail and Multi Use Path (MUP).
In 2003, the festival began as a small, local event, and has since grown into a destination weekend for out of town guests and is still a favourite event for locals alike. The reason for this is both the unique setting for the festival, as well as the excellent quality of food and wine provided by local chefs and winemakers. It is truly a memorable weekend, and a wonderful way to experience the west coast. Every year our team leaders and volunteers help make Grazing a smooth affair, delivering hard work and all smiles.
For more information on festival events, click here.
To see who will be participating in the 2012 Grazing in the Gardens event, click here.
To purchase tickets to Grazing in the Gardens, click here.
About Tofino Botanical Gardens Foundation
Tofino Botanical Gardens are twelve acres of gardens, forest, and shoreline that explore the relationship between culture and nature. Tofino Botanical Gardens Foundation, a non-profit registered Canadian charity operates educational programs and provides information about temperate rainforest conservation. A network of paths and boardwalks will take you from the Café and Gift shop around the flower, herb and kitchen gardens, the duck pond, and Children’s Garden into the forest, where clearings have been transformed into a series of pocket gardens, art installations and garden buildings. Some of the pocket gardens display plants that once thrived in other coastal temperate rainforests around the world. Garden buildings include the “historic” Bernardo O’Higgins homestead, the storytelling hut made by acclaimed local artist, Jan Janzen and two bird blinds overlooking the Tofino Mudflats Wildlife Management Area. The art installations are all made to survive or weather in the rain, and provide a cultural counterpoint to the surrounding natural beauty.
The mission of Tofino Botanical Gardens is to inspire conservation of the world’s Temperate Coastal Rainforests.
We are dedicated to the cultivation and display of plants native to the world’s coastal temperate rainforests, and to research and education programs to improve knowledge and understanding of the ecosystems of the UNESCO Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve. We hope that Tofino Botanical Gardens will help people of all ages to develop an interested and caring attitude that will encourage them to take action for temperate coastal rainforest conservation. We believe in the Preservation of the last remaining Old Growth Forests of Clayoquot Sound. We understand that a sense of humor helps in this effort. Tofino Botanical Gardens is a non-profit Foundation.
To learn more, or make a donation, visit www.tbgf.org.
Friends of the Festival - Tofino Ucluelet Culinary Guild - Our Mission
As members of a dynamic culinary community, our mission is to work closely with each other and our region’s farmers, fishermen and foragers to provide unique food experiences that rely on sustainable farm/boat-to-table practices and the freshest local ingredients prepared with integrity and passion.The local culinary talents on the west coast boast exceptional quality, relying on farm/boat to table practices. To strengthen this practice, chefs and local foodies have formed the TUCG.
Visit www.tucg.ca to learn more and become a member.
Friends of the Festival – FEAST! Tofino
A collaboration between acclaimed local and regional guest chefs, restaurants, fishermen, foragers, farmers, accommodation, activity and tour providers, Feast! Tofino celebrates the abundance of available seafood and the sustainable “boat-to-table” practices commonly employed by the area’s restaurants and the Tofino-Ucluelet Culinary Guild.
Some of the Feast! Tofino 2012 highlights include:
- “Stay and Dine“ specials and packages from participating accommodation, activity and tour providers
- $29, $39 and $49 “Dine About” set price menus
- Salmon Dock Festival (May 19)
- Spot Prawn Dock Festival (May 26)
- Restaurant events featuring acclaimed local and guest chefs
- Educational “on the water” tours
- Sustainable seafood processing and preparation demonstrations
To learn more, visit www.feastbc.com
