Eat Local Week, September 7-14 2008
This week-long culinary extravaganza is packed full of fun and delicious events celebrating the local bounty of harvest season in Whatcom County!
From all-local fine dining at your favorite restaurants, to classes and recipes helping you Buy FRESH for your own kitchen, to 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.
Follow the links below for many more details on what happened during Eat Local Week 2007, to learn about the 100 Mile Diet challenge and to download Recipes for cooking your local food.
Download last year's Guide to Eat Local Week
Why Eat Local?
• Flavor: Local food means fresher taste and greater nutritional value.
• Economy: Local food means keeping local farms in business and local dollars circulating in Whatcom County.
• Environment: Local food means less diesel & jet fuel is burned to bring our meals and more Whatcom farmland stays in farming.
• Culture: Local food means connecting directly to our home’s rural character and to the people who carry on our agricultural heritage.
• Fun! Local food means engaging with the deeply satisfying practice of feeding ourselves from our place and community.
Now’s 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 Week is an opportunity to try it on, just for one week—to go a little further into our local foodshed than you’ve been before!
3rd Annual Kindred Spirits Celebration
Join us Sunday, September 7th 2008 for our summer party in the park. This day of food and frolicking will benefit the Food & Farming Program that coordinates Eat Local Week & many other activities working towards a strong, sustainable, local food system!
Bus Tour of Local Farms
Visit three Whatcom County farms, and sample fresh produce and other local products! On Saturday September 13th, a bus tour with Bellair Charters will visit three local farms: Grace Harbor Farms (goat milk products), Boxx Berry Farms (berries, veggies & more) and Bellewood Acres (apples). A guide will accompany the group to share information on Whatcom County agriculture. Click here to register for the tour.
