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Media Sponsor

Oregonian

The Oregonian is the major daily newspaper in the Portland area, and has been covering Northwest business, politics, sports, culture, entertainment cuisine and more since 1850. It is the largest newspaper in Oregon by circulation, according to the ABC FAS-FAX from March 2012. The Weekday, Saturday Morning and Sunday newspaper is served via Home Delivery and Mail, Single Copy Sales, Business/Traveler Paid Circulation and Verified Circulation.

Golden Carrot Sponsors

Book Publishing Company

Book Publishing Company is a community owned, independent publisher dedicated to promoting books that educate and inspire. We have been in business since 1974. Our title list includes books on vegetarian and vegan cooking and nutrition, raw foods, natural health care, and Native American culture. We are a member of The Green Press Initiative and have committed to print a growing number of our titles on chlorine free, recycled paper.

Earthly Gourmet

Earthly Gourmet is a vegan-owned, Portland-based, distributor of strictly vegan and gluten-free foods to restaurants, bakeries, cafes, food carts, and independent natural food retailers. Earthly Gourmet strives to work mostly with independent, artisan food companies and small-scale producers of premium quality, organic, fair-trade and sustainable ingredients.

Echo Fund

After a lifetime of corporate and nonprofit board work, Diana Tomseth established Echo Fund to facilitate an exchange of creativity and empowerment. Diana melds with a community of artists, authors and change advocates, tapping into dreams, ideas and projects that feed her heart and creative soul. Diana is a certified expert in holistic health and plant-based living. Research, literary arts, photography, cooking, fiber arts and spirituality all inform her process.

Grow Creative

Grow Creative: We specialize in creating a strong, cohesive brand for your company. From identity to print to interactive design and development, we love making you look good.

KBOO

KBOO is a Volunteer-Powered, Non-Commercial, Listener-Sponsored, Full-Strength Community Radio for Portland, Oregon, Cascadia & the World!

PlantFusion

PlantFusion started with an idea to make plant-based nutrition easier and more delicious. Using ingredients that we believe are not only good for our bodies, but good for our planet as well. We are people who have grown up in the "health-food" lifestyle and embrace the philosophies of holistic living. If we are successful, we will provide the tools to help millions of others take control of their own health and change their lives for the better.

Stanford Inn

The Stanford Inn by the Sea Eco-Resort, North America's only vegan resort, sits atop a meadow overlooking organic gardens and Mendocino Bay. Every detail is attended to, from wood-burning fireplaces, to a salt-water indoor pool, to a sumptuous, varied organic breakfast menu. The nationally acclaimed Ravens restaurant provides cutting edge vegan cuisine. Guests also enjoy the Inn's Mendocino Center for Living Well which offers Massage in the Forest, and classes in nutrition, cooking, and more.

Platinum Cooking System

The Professional Platinum Cooking System is titanium/surgical steel cookware that enables you to fry without using oil and cook vegetables without using water, all below 200F. Cooking this way retains up to 90% more nutrition, uses 75% less fat while using 50% less energy. It's simply the healthiest environmentally friendly way to cook!

Tofurky

Turtle Island Foods, since our founding in 1980, has provided delicious, nutritious vegan options for discerning eaters. Our products are made with organic soy and other high quality ingredients to let the natural flavors shine. In addition to our best-selling line of Tofurky brand gourmet meatless sausages and deli slices, we now offer the first frozen vegan pizza line that features meat analogs as part of the toppings.

Silver Sunflower Sponsors

Edible Portland

Edible Portland, published by the nonprofit Ecotrust, is a mission-driven magazine that tells the story of local food, season by season. In four issues each year, we encourage our community to eat locally grown and produced foods and become more informed about our region's food and farming culture.

Natural Awakenings

Natural Awakenings is a free monthly magazine dedicated to providing insights and information to improve the quality of life physically, mentally, and emotionally. Each month we present special features, local news briefs, health briefs, eco briefs, and national and local articles within our departments of health and green living. Also included is our local community resource guide and community calendar.

One Degree Organic Foods

One Degree Organic Foods. We start with simple ingredients from family farmers who are devoted to the earth, the integrity of their crop, and your health. True sources, truly veganic. When you add sustainability, transparency and consumer-empowering technology, what you get is an incredibly honest meal.

Pacific Foods

Since 1987, Pacific Natural Foods has been inspiring people to know more about their food, where it comes from and how it's grown by delivering delicious, all natural and organic non-dairy beverages, soups and broths, made with respect for land, animals and people. We believe in capturing the full flavor of natural ingredients when flavors are at their peak because there's simply no substitute for the real thing.

RUNA

RUNA Clean Energy makes a line of Amazonian tea from an Ecuadorian holly tree called Guayusa (gwhy-you-sah). Guayusa contains twice the antioxidants of green tea and is a natural source of caffeine. Runa's products include Guayusa in bagged tea, ready-to-drink bottles, and their new Energy Drink cans, the only USDA Organic, Non-GMO Project Verified, and Fair Trade Certified Energy Drink. Runa Clean Energy: From a Leaf, not a Lab!

So Delicious Dairy Free

So Delicious Dairy Free has been bringing joy to dairy-free lives for more than 25 years. We offer an array of delicious dairy-free delights you can feel good about enjoying throughout your day. Many of our products are made with organic and fair trade ingredients, and are always 100 percent plant-based and Non-GMO Project Verified with no artificial sweeteners, trans-fats, or hydrogenated oils.

Symple Foods

At Symple Foods (creators of SOMA Kombucha), all of our stuff contains multiple probiotic cultures, are entirely hand-made, and we celebrate slight variations in our small batches. We're a fun, nerdy and socially-conscious company that's decided to be great instead of big; we make zero waste and donate 10% of sales (not just profits) to customer-chosen charities.

Toby's Family Foods & Genesis Juices

Toby's Family Foods is all about the warm feeling you get from eating smart. It started 30 years ago when Toby came up with the tofu dips and spreads that you know and enjoy today. Toby's also makes award-winning salad dressings and Genesis Juices.

Ultima Replenisher

Ultima Replenisher is passionate about providing you with the best and most complete hydration product in the world. We believe too many drinks are loaded with sugar, too much salt and/or an array of artificial colors, dyes and preservatives. Ultima's combination of balanced electrolytes allows for rapid re-hydration without blood sugar spikes or stomach upset. With Ultima, you will feel and perform your best.

Mom's Vegan Kitchen

Mom's Vegan Kitchen is a Portland, OR company dedicated to reuniting vegans with their favorite childhood comfort foods. All products are vegan, all natural and non-GMO.

Restaurants

Al Amir

Al Amir, Portland's oldest Lebanese restaurant, serves traditional Middle Eastern cuisine celebrated by its patrons for quality and authenticity. Al Amir is a restaurant, caterer and food packager specializing in all natural, vegan hummus, baba ghanooj, and simply fresh garlic. A family operated business for over 22 years proves that our products surpass any other because they are made with the freshest local ingredients.

Curry Leaf

Curry Leaf provides authentic, home style, South Indian, North Indian and Indo-Chinese vegetarian food. All menu items are clearly marked as vegan, gluten free, mild/medium/spicy, no onion/garlic, etc. We provide dine-in, take out, party orders and catering services. We also sell several Indian spices at a very cheap price when compared to local popular stores/brands. We serve a special vegetarian lunch buffet on weekends with a few vegan food choices. Curry Leaf is the first and only Indian Vegetarian restaurant in Oregon.

Homegrown Smoker

Homegrown Smoker slings Southern-style BBQ without the animal profiteering. No meat, no dairy, just pure smokey goodness in the form of cruelty free comfort food. Our goal is to promote veganism and community through delicious meals that appeal to vegans and omnivores alike. With gluten-free options available, there's no need to leave any friend or family member behind! Located at Mississippi Marketplace on N. Mississippi & N. Skidmore. Closed Monday, W-Th 11-3, F&S 11-6, Sunday 11-4

Veggie Grill

At Veggie Grill we serve a variety of home-style plates, hot sandwiches, salads, daily soups, wraps, burgers and made-on-premise desserts. We make the impossible possible by serving100% plant-based food that is wholesome, convenient, affordable, and crave-able! Whether you want to relax at your place, grab-and-go or cater a gathering, Veggie Grill keeps pace with your life.

Commercial Exhibitors

Amy's Kitchen
Beanfield's Snacks
Betsy's Best Bar None
Better Bean Company
Betty Lou's
Blissful Chef
Body & Brain Yoga
Bolthouse Farms
Caju Cream
Columbia Wellness Center
Compassion Co
doTerra
Dr Bronners
Earth Balance
Eco Dog and Cat
Equal Exchange
Exotic Chocolates
Falafel Chef
Farm Dog
Food Fight Grocery
G & L Acupuncture
Get Waisted NW
Glad Rags
Good Seed Hemp Co
Green Mountain Energy
Gretchens Grains
Grocery Getter
Heart to Heart
Harbor Creek Farms
Heidi Ho
Herbivore
Hood River Organic
Isabella Dog Biscuits
Juice Plus
Keiko
Left Coast Raw
Kuli Kuli
Liefie's
Little Fig Acupuncture
Lotus Foods
Love at First Sit
Lucky Foods
Made in Nature
Manitoba Harvest
Mariam Foods
Missionary Chocolates
Millie's Savory Teas
Multipure
Nii Bar
Nut-tritious Foods
Nuzest
OM Botanical
100% Pure
Oregon Brineworks
Oregon Healthy Harvest
Oregon Trail Foods
Organically Grown
Organics to You
Pacifica Beauty
The People Project
Petunia's Pies and Pasteries
Royal Rye
Smart Klean
Soapbox Soaps
SortaSausage
Sprout Company
Sunshine Burger
Tai Chi Yoga Center
Takalina Foods
Kelis
Tude Juice
Two Moms in the Raw
Up Beet Kitchen
Upton's Natural
V Apparel
V-Dog
Vaute Couture
Vegan Beauty
Vegan Caterer
VeganProteins.com
Veggie Evolution
Vital Juice
VitaMix
Vtopian Cheeses
Whole Fusion
Wilderness Poets
Wildwood Foods
Yoga Animalia Project
Yummy Plants
Zemas Foods

Non-Profit Exhibitors

Action for Animals
Adventist Medical Center
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Born Again Pit Bull Rescue
Darwin Animal-Doctors
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition
Farm Animal Rights Movement
Free Oregon Zoo Elephants
Green Acres Farm Sanctuary
HEART
House of Dreams
Humane League
Humane Oregon
IDA Africa
Know Thyself as Soul
Mercy for Animals
NCNM
Oregon Right to Know
Out to Pasture Sanctuary
Portland Area CSA Coalition
PlantBuilt
Portland Farmers Market
Resistance Ecology
Save the Chimps
Sea Lion Defense Brigade
Sea Shepard
Supreme Master TV
Try Vegan PDX
United Poultry Concerns
Vegan Iron Chef
Wildcat Haven Sanctuary
Wildwood Farm Sanctuary

Product and Coupon Donors

Beanitos, Better Bean Company, Chinook Book, Curry Leaf, Dave's Killer Bread, Eco Dogs & Cats, Equal Exchange, Field Roast, Gardenbar, Happy Campers Gluten Free, Little Fig Acupuncture, Manitoba Harvest, Nibbana, One Degree Organics, Oregon Healthy Harvest, Parma!, Permacharts Inc, Petunia's Pies & Pastries, RUNA, Schmidt's Deodorant, So Delicious Dairy Free, Silver Hills Bakery, Sweetpea Baking Company, Takalina Foods, Toby's Family Foods & Genesis Juice, Upton's Naturals, Vegan Beauty, Vegan Fusion