Viikki Local Food Fair 10.9.2025

Viikki Local Food Fair returns this autumn with a special Harvest Edition! Come celebrate the season and enjoy a relaxed afternoon filled with delicious flavors from local producers in the scenic setting of Viikki’s research farm, right behind CoolHead Brew.

This harvest event offers delicious goods from local food producers and farmers, as well as autumn-themed activities for children. You can also enjoy refreshments from CoolHead Brew and freshly baked pizzas. Come support local businesses, explore unique products that celebrate the autumn harvest, and spend a cozy fall day with us in Viikki at CoolHead Brew’s backyard.

Time and place:

· September 10, 2025, starting at 4 PM
· CoolHead Brew’s backyard, Koetilantie 1, Viikki

Local food producer or farmer – join us!

Are you a local food producer or farmer? This is a great opportunity to showcase and sell your products directly to food lovers in a lively and welcoming setting. Sign up using the link below!

Vendors at the event

Below are listed the so far confirmed vendors at the event. Stay tuned for updates!

Ape Gelato

Our gelato is made from pure and fresh ingredients in a small-batch production. We reached carbon neutrality in our 
operations, so you can have a delicious ice-cream being environmentally friendly.

Read more from the Ape Gelato website.

Espoon Hunaja 

Espoon Hunaja brings their price winning honey and bee products, handmade in Espoo and Helsinki. 

Read more from Espoon Hunaja website (in Finnish).

Helsieni

Helsieni produces fresh oyster, lion's mane and shiitake mushrooms in Karjaa, most of them to the Helsinki metropolitan area top restaurants. We also sell Do-it-Yourself mushroom growing kits, so you can have the freshest oyster mushrooms from your kitchen counter or garden! 

Read more from Helsieni website.

Porlammin meijeri Oy

Porlammin meijeri dairy has developed two vegan cheese alternatives with 13 % and 9 % of fermented protein that you can now taste at the Viikki Local Food Fair! 
These cheese alternatives are based on technology created by Locusia. Dr. Mokhtari from University of Helsinki, Department of Microbiology has been involved in the industrial trials of these vegan cheese alternative products.

Read more Porlammin meijeri's website.

Viikki Urban Farmers

Viikki Urban Farmers is a student founded urban farming company, operating in the Viikki greenhouse area. We sell, for example, cucumbers and hydroponically farmed salads and herbs. 

See more from the Viikki Urban Farmers Instagram account.

Zestii Kitchens

Zestii is a collective of food entrepreneurs working together to create sales opportunities and build resources and connections with customers who want sustainable choices. 

Zestii cooks provide delicious international food experiences using locally sourced ingredients at our collaborative cafe "Dash Coffee & Zestii Kitchens" in Kallio for weekday lunch and weekend brunches. We also cater to events and organize food related workshops.

Read more from the Zestii website.

Tastings from the university

MyShroom - Taste the future!  

Mycelium is the root like structure of fungi. Mycelia from edible mushrooms have been grown in Viikki's Food and Nutrition department's Sensory Laboratory and basement corridors since 2017. In 2023, the MyShroom team won a food systems pitching competition at the Slush Y-Science side event with the MyShroom product innovation - and now you have the chance to taste what the future may taste like! 

We believe in fungi as an ethical and ecological food alternative that is diplomatically between animals and plants. Even though our product does not yet have a novel food authorization, the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Helsinki has granted permission to provide tastings of it at University events.

  • Tastings are available from 16.00 to 17.00 (Mycelia manager Jutta on site from 16.00 to 17.00, tastings as long as there are samples left!)
  • In order to taste, you'll need to sign the ethical consent form.

Join us - The future is not built alone. Taste, discuss and be inspired by how fungi can change the world!

Contact info:

Do you have questions about the fair or selling products there? Please contact:

Isa Stucki
isa.stucki@helsinki.fi
+358 294158389

Tiia Pelkonen
tiia.pelkonen@helsinki.fi
+358 50 3199 520 

Wilhelmina Mäntylä 
wilhelmina.mantyla@helsinki.fi
+358 40 5468 266