Plan Your Visit

Activities

Jr Iron Chef VT is a fun family event. Swing through the activity room to partake in great activities the whole family can enjoy! Some activities include:

  • Community Art Project
  • City Market Smoothie bike
  • City Market Make a green vegetable kabob
  • Skinny Pancake Crepe making
  • 802 Event Group Photo booth
  • Vermont FEED Taste test
  • Shelburne Farms Cheddar taste test
  • New England Dairy & Food Council Power Up to Play 60
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of VT Face painting
  • Vermont PBS - Plinko and stem Activites
  • CSWD/Chittenden Agency of Natural Resources- Composting activity
  • Chittenden County Sugar Makers Association/End-O-Road Maple- Sugar on snow, maple popcorn
  • Hunger Free Vermont- Nutritional Activity
  • 50/50 raffle

 

The Jr Iron Chef VT 2020 Competition on Saturday, March 14 is cancelled.

March 12, 2020 11:45AM

To our wonderful Jr. Iron Chef Vermont community, 

We write with the news that we have decided to cancel our Junior Iron Chef VT event on Saturday, March 14th, 2020. We promised you that we would monitor and respond to the unfolding reality of COVID-19, and in the past two days, that reality has changed. WHO has announced a global pandemic, many Vermont colleges have cancelled classes, and an additional case of the virus in Chittenden County has been confirmed. 

The Vermont FEED partners, NOFA-VT and Shelburne Farms, take seriously our collective responsibility to those most vulnerable in our society. We are committed to helping to flatten the curve of this infection rate to slow the spread of the virus. 

We want to acknowledge and honor the immense amount of work that the students, coaches, families, judges, sponsors, friends and organizations have invested in this event, and their sadness at the event’s cancellation. However, we also want to acknowledge that Jr Iron Chef is so much more than this culminating event. The heart of Junior Iron Chef VT has always been about celebrating and creating community through food, and this important work has already happened, as students have worked as teams to develop their recipes in the months leading up to the event. Despite the event’s cancellation, we are proud of the students and inspired by their energy and commitment. They make us hopeful about the future of our agricultural community here in the state of Vermont.

Thanks to all of you for your understanding. We are living in extraordinary times, and we all need each other. 

With gratitude, 

The Junior Iron Chef Planning Team from VT FEED, a project of NOFA-VT + Shelburne Farms

If you have any questions, please contact us at: [email protected]

The Champlain Valley Exposition
105 Pearl Street
Essex Junction, Vermont 05452
Directions

Admission
$3 individual
$5 family (up to 4 members)

Event
Morning heat: 9:30–11:00AM; awards 12:00–12:30PM
Afternoon heat: 12:30–2:00PM; awards 3:00–3:30PM

Concession Stand
Watching a cooking competition is bound to make you hungry! Visit the concession stand to purchase breakfast, lunch, and snack items.This year's concessions offered by The Mill Market and Deli