Soupalicious 2023!

Your entry fee includes 3x soup samples. Additional soup tickets can be purchased for $2 each.

Celebrate harvest season with us; sample soups, dance to the music, grab a local brew, take a tractor ride, compete in a pie eating contest, send the kids on a pumpkin hunt, peruse local artists...all in support of improving food security in Calgary.

Soupalicious is a Canada wide event created by the Compost Council of Canada (CCC) and aims to support the growing of fresh food for donation to community food access organizations. As a community urban farm and project of the CCC, the vast majority of produce grown at Highfield Farm is donated to food access in Calgary. To increase our capacity and sustainability, proceeds from this event will support utilizing our new greenhouse to grow year-round, trial of exciting agri-technologies, and increase educational offerings to the Calgary community.

See the 2023 Soup Line-up HERE. (Allergen check!)

This year, our competitors will be battling it out for The First Place Pot - awarded by our panel of judges; and The Golden Ladle - our People’s Choice Award.

The Golden Ladle: This is our People’s Choice Award. Upon entry, ticket holders (that's you!) are given a poker chip. After sampling their chosen soups, they will vote by dropping their chip in the bucket associated with their favourite soup.

The First Place Pot: This award is determined by our panel of expert judges. They will judge within the first hour of the event and will do a blind taste tests of ALL SOUPS basing their decision on taste, creativity, and how well the feature ingredient was utilised.

This year, our honourable judges are:

• Sharon Hapton - the founder of Soup Sisters; a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing comfort to women, children and youth through the making, sharing and donating of soup.
• Bernice Hill - a Calgary based food blogger; the sole writer, recipe developer, photographer, and techie at Dish ‘n’ the Kitchen.
• Mayor Jyoti Gondek - that’s right! Calgary's 37th mayor and the first woman to be elected to this role.

EVENT SCHEDULE 

11am Gate Opens 

11am-2pm Soup sampling and ongoing event (tractor rides, vendor marketplace, yard games) 

11am-12pm Judging taking place at Harvest Stage 

11am-12:30pm Doug Waite on Harvest Stage 

12pm Kid’s Pumpkin Hunt 

12:30-2pm The Enablers on Harvest Stage 

1pm Pie Eating contest 

1:30pm Public voting cut-off 

1:45pm Announce the winners of the First Place Pot and the Golden Ladle 

2pm Event Ends

Your entry fee includes 3x soup samples. Additional soup tickets can be purchased for $2 each.

Children age 5 and under are welcome free of charge.

Highfield Farm depends on incredible volunteers to help make our fundraisers a success! Volunteers receive free admission to the event, including three soup samples. Click here to sign-up for a shift!

Everyone who joins us on-site must complete a waiver: https://www.highfieldfarm.ca/non-member-waivers

ACCESSIBILITY:

Highfield Farm's pathways are made of gravel or woodchips and are not always perfectly level. The site is accessible to people who use mobility devices. Unfortunately, we do not currently have wheelchair-accessible washrooms on site. Please contact education@highfieldfarm.ca with any concerns.