2026 Vendors & Exhibitors
The Somerville Fermentation Festival is proud to present a diverse vendor marketplace along with many science, craft, and community booths! Check out our extraordinary vendors, exhibitors, and engaging activities below.
Food & Beverage Vendors
Community Booths
Bay Staters for Creative Well-Being
Bay Staters for Creative Well-Being is a grassroots movement bringing nature back to the center of community health. From decriminalizing psilocybin mushrooms in ten communities to hosting community nature walks, we bring people together to grow all varieties of mushrooms, eat healthfully, and spend intentional time in nature.
Bootstrap Compost
Bootstrap Compost is your local composting service dedicated to turning your food scraps into nutrient-rich compost since 2011. Serving the Greater Boston, Providence, Worcester and Berkshires areas, we make composting simple and convenient. Join us in reducing landfill waste and enriching our local soil.
Groundwork Somerville
Groundwork Somerville is an environmental nonprofit organization that changes places, changes lives, and changes systems in Somerville, MA. Since 2000, Groundwork Somerville has been building a healthier, greener, and more equitable city through urban farming, youth leadership, and community-driven advocacy. We steward Somerville’s only urban farm and distribute 2,000 lbs. of organic produce for free each growing season. Our Green Team program employs local youth and empowers them to become environmental leaders by growing food for the community, building resident power together, and shaping neighborhoods into equitable, climate-resilient spaces.
Food Not Bombs - Somerville Chapter
Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer movement that recovers food that would otherwise be discarded, and shares free vegan and vegetarian meals with the hungry. We work to strengthen community, protest and fight oppression, and share food.
Artist Booths
Indestructible Food
Indestructible Food is an educational celebration of shelf-stable fare. We research, write about, and illustrate nonperishable fare!
Bel Jaffe Crafts
Bel Jaffe is a local artist originally from Cambridge, MA. They have been creating all their life and find inspiration in the touch and tactile of handmade things. Their crafts vary from ceramic, to fiber arts, to print making, and everything in between.
In-House Booths
Merch & Raffle Table
Visit us at the front of the vendor hall or on the mezzanine to pick up your SomFermFest tees, totes, stickers, temporary tattoos, and hand-stamped lined notebooks! We’ll also have a small selection of fermentation books and equipment to get you started fermenting at home, and several fun (and funky) raffle prizes to bid on.
Kraut Mob
Join us on the patio outside the Armory and make your own jar of sauerkraut to take home ! We will provide everything you need: cabbage, jars, equipment, & a recipe to take home. Try your hand at fermentation and discover the fun of creating your very own ferment!
Fermentation Help Desk
Fuzzy ferments? Off smells? If you’re unsure how to get started or afraid you did something wrong, stop by our Fermentation Help Desk to get your questions answered by an experienced fermenter!
Culture Sharing & Book Swap
Do you have a starter culture that you’d like to share with the community? Or have you been itching to experiment with sourdough, kombucha, yogurt, or kefir, but don’t know where to start? Visit our Culture Sharing Table to drop off or pick up a starter culture and learn how to take care of it at home!
New this year - bring your food & fermentation themed books to share and take home something new!
Microscope Table
Ever wondered what's actually alive in your ferments? Stop by to see the microbial world up close: peer through the lens at the bacteria and yeasts that turn cabbage into kraut and tea into kombucha.
Crafting Table
Get creative at our crafting table for kids (& adults), located right alongside our artist booths! We’ll have art supplies, crafting activities, and a selection of SFF stamps to play with!
