Eat Local Week, May - October 2009
This year, EVERY week is Eat Local Week!
Check out what's happening during Eat Local Every Week May - October 2009.
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An event series featuring the finest in local food & agriculture.
Set your table for local food!
From all-local fine dining at your favorite restaurants, to classes and recipes helping you Buy FRESH for your own kitchen, to guided tours of local farms, and farm-fresh food appearing in local cafeterias and on unexpected streetcorners, it's a true smorgasbord of events, promotions & specials, all featuring the finest of local food & agriculture.
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Click the links below for more information:
Speakers, films, cooking classes and our 2nd annual Farm Tour will delight and inspire you throughout the season.
Every Thursday May 7th -October 1st is Eat Local Day at a different restaurant or cafe, with scrumptious, seasonal, all-local offerings. Click here for a detailed schedule including descriptions of specials (yum!) and how to locate your favorite local eateries.
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Eat Local Every Week is your chance to take an extra step—or ten—in eating local. We hear monthly, weekly, daily even, about the environmental, economic, and social benefits of buying our food from local farms. We believe in the importance of keeping our farmland in agriculture. 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, and people from whence it came, and that it will have a nourishing, healthy and delicious effect on us now. Yet, in our global food system, it is a big challenge to change our habits and eat local. The research, questioning, attention to detail and commitment needed are more than most of us are willing to do. Eat Local Every Week is an opportunity to try it on, just once or twice a week for the growing season—to go a little further into our local foodshed than you’ve been before!
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Many thanks to our 2009 Food & Farming Program Sponsors
