Eat Local EVERY Week, May - October 2010
From all-local dining at your favorite restaurants, to guided tours of local farms, and farm-fresh food appearing in local cafeterias and on unexpected street corners, it's a true smorgasbord of specials, all featuring the finest local ingredients from local farmers, fishers and ranchers.
Next Eat Local Special:
September 2 - Nimbus Restaurant
119 N Commercial St, 14th Floor, Bellingham - 360.676.1307 - nimbusrestaurant.com
Special
available from 5-10pm
Eat Local Special:
Cloud Mountain
Heirloom Melon Salad
Feta cheese, arugula, preserved lemon
vinaigrette, shiso
Heritage Lane Farm Pork Loin
Skagit gold potato puree, roasted
peppers, corn-fennel pesto
Peach crisp with homemade vanilla bean ice cream
Click the links below for information on upcoming specials:
Weekly Restaurant Series
Every Thursday May - October features different restaurant or cafe's scrumptious, seasonal, LOCAL offerings. Click here for a detailed schedule including descriptions of specials (yum!) and how to locate your favorite local eateries and support local farmers.
Monthly Public Events
Speakers, films, cooking classes and our 3rd annual Farm Tour will delight and inspire you throughout the season.
Check it out: A 2008 study found that for every $100 spent at a local restaurant, $79 is re-spent locally, for a total local economic impact of $179.
(Source: Local Food Economy Study for the Puget Sound Region, Sustainable Seattle, April 2008).
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We want the good feeling of knowing the people who grew or raised our food, knowing the miles it traveled, knowing the hands it passed through, and knowing that our dinner had a positive effect on the land, water & people from whence it came, and that it will have a nourishing, healthy and delicious effect on us now.
We hear monthly, weekly, daily even, about the environmental, economic, and social benefits of buying our food from local farms and farmers. We believe in the importance of keeping our farmland in agriculture. And that's why Eat Local Week is every week!
So go ahead—try it on, just once or twice a week for the growing season—go a little further into our local foodshed than you’ve been before!
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Many thanks to our 2010 Food & Farming Program Sponsors
