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October 4-6, 2024
Oktoberfest
Amana Colonies, Iowa
Everyone's favorite German-style fall festival! Parade, activities, and music throughout the colonies.

October 14-18, 2024
National School Lunch Week
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October 29-31, 2024  The Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue
Des Moines, Iowa
The Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium, which is held each year in conjunction with the awarding of the World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. Known as the "Borlaug Dialogue," this three-day event brings together international experts, policy leaders, business executives and farmers to address cutting-edge issues in food security and nutrition. It has been called "the premier conference in the world on global agriculture."

October 31, 2024  Living History Farms Annual Farmstasia
Urbandale, Iowa
Farmstasia is our annual fundraiser in support of education and outreach programs, and with this year’s theme we thumb our nose at superstition, re-creating a Victorian trend. Triskaideka dinners were a popular way for Victorians to demonstrate that they weren’t scared of black cats, cracked mirrors—or the number 13. In addition to raising funds for programs that serve nearly 23,000 students a year, we will celebrate our Teacher of the Year.
 

2017 IOWA: OCTOBER 2017
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
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October 7, 2017 - The Taco Festival - Des Moines, Iowa
A General Admission ticket provides access to taco-topia. Inside the event, you’ll find restaurants dishing out $2 tacos and bars and beverage stations serving margaritas, beer, water, and soda. The entire festival works on a token system – so you will purchase tokens worth $2 each and use those as cash. Vendors will be on hand to sell other food (mostly desserts) as well.
 

2015 IOWA: OCTOBER 2015
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
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October 14, 2015  Panel hosted by Oxfam at The World Food Prize
Des Moines, Iowa
Oxfam is hosting a panel event during The World Food Prize in Des Moines, Iowa. Norman Uphoff (Professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University), Caryl Levine (co-founder of Lotus Foods Inc.), Vara Prasad (USAID), and Danielle Nierenberg (Food Tank) will be speaking on the panel.