The first ever Vegan Fest will take place in conjunction with Fall Fest on September 21st.(Courtesy of Rob Budde via Facebook)

By Veronica Beltran

restaurants and businesses wanted

First-ever Vegan Fest coming to Prince George

Sep 10, 2019 | 2:56 PM

PRINCE GEORGE–Dear vegans of Prince George, the wait is over as the first ever Vegan Fest will take place this month in conjunction with Fall Fest.

Rob Budde a Poet and Creative Writing Teacher at UNBC, and also a full-time vegan came to the idea of creating a vegan component to festivals downtown after starting a conversation on the Vegans of Prince George Facebook group. The idea gained some traction and so he reached out to Fall Fest who agreed to let him use the Hub Space downtown.

Currently Budde says he and several others are in discussions with Birch and Boar, Cimo, Dana Mandi and several other restaurants to attend the festival.

However, Budde says he doesn’t want the festival to just be restaurants, the space is open to businesses with vegan products they’d like to showcase as well. The event will also supply the vegan-curious with information on how to cut out animal products and even provide little recipes to give the plant-based life-style a shot.

To make things a bit interesting Budde hopes to have a competition for the best vegan bite between participating restaurants; customers will be able to vote for their favourite vegan food.

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The vegan of 6 years says that he hopes to accomplish a couple of things through the festival, “both wanting restaurants to recognize that we have this facebook group with 750 people that are paying customers that will come to your restaurant if you have good vegan food…but also for the vegan curious, just to show them that vegan food is something that is really tasty and a good alternative,” he said to us in an over the phone interview.

Budde says they are still looking for more restaurants and business to fill up tables at the Hub Space, anyone interested in participating is asked to contact him via email: rbudde@UNBC.ca

The Vegan Fest will run from 8:30 AM to 2 PM along with Fall Fest on Saturday, September 21. Budde has said that some restaurants may not be cooking away until 10 AM.